toxic from Yukon Goes Fishing on Vimeo. Foggy morning start on the Bitterroot….
Bitterroot
Trying to hold to a reasonable standard of optimism, given that July is a couple of days away and that river flow trends had been looking a tiche better over the past few days, yesterday we planned to post this morning a few area river flows that had been improving. That post was to have […]
Montana TU has weighed in on FWP’s proposed changes in the boating regulations for the Clark Fork, Blackfoot and Bitterroot Rivers. We linked to an article in the Missoulian when the issue surfaced last week; the issue’s drawing a bit more attention this week. Here’s Montana TU’s spin on the issue – In recent years […]
From today’s Missoulian….. The Clark Fork and Bitterroot rivers near Missoula would be closed to high-speed watercraft under a proposal by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Increasing conflicts between homeowners and non-motorized boaters on one side and speedboaters on the other prompted the plan, according to FWP fisheries manager Pat Saffel. The […]
Access. Simply speaking the word ‘access’ in any Montana fly fishers’ pub these days will quell the conversation in a heartbeat. Folks are still a bit itchy about HB 309’s attempt to begin to claw back access to much of Montana’s storied waters. Unless you’ve been living under a log buried under a deep winter […]
She Who Must Be Obeyed and I had the pleasure of spending a little time in the Bitterroot valley last spring, almost a year ago this week. Knocking around in ‘downtown’ Hamilton after a day’s work we stumbled across what is likely the niftiest eatery in town – the Spice of Life. Particularly for Montana […]
There’s still some fishing to be done on the Bitterroot this week, and the weather forecast doesn’t look bad at all….. A couple of friends from Seattle have been trying to put a trip together to make a run over here, and they’ve been stymied at every turn. I told them that if they really […]
Pic via DiscountFlies.com
All things considered, this should be a decent week on the river. The forecast this morning is calling for a little more sun than I’d like to see, but low 50’s the first week of November makes for a nice afternoon on the water whether your getting much done fishing or not. Sometimes we just […]
The Bitterroot continues to give it up for the dry fly aficionado; the weather has been ideal save for some wind on the day before these storms roll through. I wasn’t on the water yesterday but heard it got tough (wind) in the afternoon. The game is still BWO and mahoganies. Bring a nice assortment […]
The word is ‘yes’. The Bitterroot is still fishing well. We’ve had a good week (more or less) since the seasonable weather returned to the Bitterroot valley, though today and Saturday are both forecast to be windy with Saturday forecast (as least as of this morning) to be very windy. The blue wings and mahoganies […]
I’ve got to agree this morning with my friends at the Kingfisher shop in Missoula – when you look at water temps, the Bitterroot has had the advantage over other waters in the area for most of the week. The warming weather and rain due over the next several days should produce some fine fishing […]
There are a few things that Montana is never short on – great fly fishing, big sky, changing weather, and wind. The transitional weather we’re having has made it seem pretty damned windy lately; I was on the river yesterday and it was windy as hell. I can only think of one truly useful thing […]
