I love the transitional weather this time of year. It’ll be summer one day and the next day they’re will be new snow in the high country – just like yesterday. Up early with The One Who Must Be Obeyed this morning it was a chilly 47 at our place on the outskirts of Bozeman, […]
Big Hole
The Big Hole drainage in southwest Montana has been pounded (and I mean pounded) by rain over the past few days. The flow chart this morning says all you need to know for the next few days….. There’s a great related story posted over on the Great Divide Outfitters blog (bigholeTROUT.com) about storms on the […]
From what we’re hearing about the Big Hole, the earlier you’re on the water, the better. Sounds like the best fishing of the day has been early and then again quite late (Caddis), though the Great Divide Outfitters posted yesterday that it was good on top all day – The action started this morning on […]
We’ve been whining talking about it for a few weeks now – the rainy, cool, unbelievably nice late spring / early summer weather the neighborhood enjoyed through June has finally given way to real summer. Long hours of bright sunshine (days almost arctic in length has been used by more than one notable describing Montana’s […]
This is a pretty danged easy report to write this morning. Many of the old timers and the not so old timers in the neighborhood are chatting here and there about how the river looks and has fished better than she has in a long time. There is plenty of water rolling through the river […]
Gathering information with which to prepare reports for Chi Wulff is always an interesting exercise – particularly when the fishing is really good. Take for instance the Big Hole right now – there are more bugs on this river than liberals in Washington – and trying to round up an honest and accurate report has […]
The Big Hole is finally settling down to the seasonal average flows this week – you can see from the flow chart below it’s come way down in just a few days as the push from last week’s rain has moved through. A local fisherman who scrimped and saved to buy his first raft to […]
Despite the heavy rains we’ve seen in the neighborhood over the past few days, reports from the Big Hole are much more positive than I’d have expected to hear. As you can see from this morning’s chart flows have continued to push up over the past four days to just over 4700 cfs this morning. […]
Hang on to your hats, my friends – fly fishing on the Big Hole is about to get very interesting. First of all, flows have dropped a great deal over the past week (despite last weekend’s new snow and rain), and clarity is much improved. Even allowing for some of the typical hyperbole from […]
After several days of clearing water, dropping flows, and some very fishable days on streamers, flows have headed back up with the rain the area has received. It rained or snowed much of the day and night in Bozeman yesterday and is even drizzling with a snow flake falling now and then this morning (it’s […]
The ‘more mature’ I become, the more interested I find myself in people, events, and things in general that defy conventional wisdom. ‘Conventional wisdom’ leads folks to often make what they think are ‘safe choices’ that very often turn out to be dull, insipid, and void of adventure and opportunity. The Big Hole this week […]
No question, there’s a lot of water pounding down most of the freestones in the neighborhood. After a few cooler days and nights warmer temps are on the way back up this next week, and most of southern / southwest Montana is forecast to get some rain over the next twenty four hours. Runoff will […]
The Big Hole fished pretty well from reports this past weekend; up until Sunday clarity had been very good with flows pretty steady in the 2400 cfs range. Streamers have been producing the most impressive fish according to Steve who took a busman’s holiday and escaped over there on Saturday. March Brown’s have been the […]
The Big Hole River is fishing pretty darned well right now; flows have continued to fall more or less since their most recent peak on the 7th. Today is forecast to be pretty danged warm (64 at Divide) with rain forecast off and for most of the week, with temperatures dropping back down into the […]
Flows on the Big Hole dropped like a rock until yesterday, and friends fishing over that way on Saturday reported water that was only slightly stained and otherwise very fishable. That may be slowly changing (for the worse) as you can see on the flow chart posted. I’m going to dig around a bit and […]
