There’s a very well done piece in the Missoulian – In charting the future of the Clark Fork River, lessons exist on Blackfoot, Bitterroot rivers – that’s worth 8-10 minutes of your time. The Clark Fork doesn’t necessarily get a lot of love outside of Montana, particularly given it’s history interwoven with Montana’s legacy as […]
River – Clark Fork
Montana FWP dropped some new hoot owl restrictions into place on Friday covering the Upper Clark Fork and Silver Bow Creek – To help ease the strain on fish as water temperatures rise, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is implementing fishing restrictions on the upper Clark Fork River and Silver Bow Creek beginning Saturday, July […]
The Last Great Place from Zangs Films on Vimeo. The massive Clark Fork watershed comprises an area of over 14 million acres, with its vast network of streams and rivers cascading and meandering for over 28,000 miles through the rugged, mountainous landscape of western Montana. This hard-working watershed supports an intricately woven ecosystem of plants […]
I sometimes find myself amazed at how Mother Nature can be so fragile and so resilient at the same time. Ecosystems are filled with more wheels and levers than we can imagine and when one of those spins a little wildly the whole thing is thrown off kilter. It’s enough to make me wonder how […]
Hollywood Rainbows from Ivan Orsic on Vimeo.
Another short and sweet report today; there’s fishing to be done but you better be ready for some winter.
In my report on the Bitterroot yesterday I talked about the forecast for the week not looking bad. The Clark Fork is in somewhat similar shape to most of our rivers over here, there’s nymphing to be done in the mornings with the shrinking dry fly window narrowing to the warmest of the afternoon hours. […]
There’s been some damned nice fishing to be done on the Clark Fork lately; I was lucky enough to do a bit with my daughter this weekend. We floated the upper river (above Missoula) on Sunday and did very well on BWO and mahoganies in the afternoon; the wind was manageable and fish were really […]
I’m late today – meetings in Missoula and it took me a while to track down my daughter who fished the Clark Fork this weekend. She said the river (they were above Missoula) fished well during the afternoon with Mahoganies, best for them with sparkle duns and cripples. They found the best window from about […]
I’ve told you before that my family has been in the area for some time; this is one of the coldest October spells, at least for the first half of October, that I’ve seen in over a decade. I just talked to my daughter in Missoula and it was 9 degrees on the way into […]
I must say I’m happy we’re not having the weather over on this side of the state that they’re having over in the greater Yellowstone area – we’re not going to have snow down at river levels here, thoughrain showers will likely keep rolling through. The biggest weather issue we’ve been dealing with has been […]
The Clark Fork is fishing decently these days; to be honest none of my crew was able to get out on the water this weekend (my daughter was in Boise on business with the family), and I was on the Missouri with friends. Sounds like the upper most and lower most sections of the river […]
According to my daughter and her husband the Clark Fork has been fishing pretty well over the past few days. During the unsettled weather Saturday and Sunday they even saw some olives out on the upper river – like the golden color spotting the hills seeing olives on the river is one of the surest […]
Had a great day on the Beaverhead yesterday, I’ll have some pictures sent to Mark to post in a day or two. The Clark Fork is going to come around here before you know it; even though the summer Caddis Fest we’ve been enjoying on the hot days will peter out, the river’s mayflies will […]
Last night I had the enlightening opportunity to visit with my good friend, sometimes mentor and sometimes antagonist, Al the Pal from Hamilton. Regular readers of our blog know that Al has spent his life running a family ranch in the Bitterroot Valley and that he’s a diehard fly fisherman with a good sense of […]
