Runoff

The runoff season begins in earnest….

The Gallatin’s winter green is about to succumb to spring runoff mud.

Gina Loss, a National Weather Service hydrologist in Great Falls, projects that this year’s runoff in Montana, at least Western Montana, will be “sensational”. A potent weather system has pounded southwestern and southern Montana this weekend with rain and snow. The pic to the right from this morning’s NWS forecast site out of Missoula confirms […]

Like many of my friends and neighbors who fish Montana streams and rivers year round, the weeks from early February to late March or some years even early April can seem like a millennium.  Don’t get me wrong – winter in Montana brings with it a host of fun things to do that aren’t river […]

Just a couple of other pics from my walk by the Clark Fork in Missoula yesterday afternoon.  She’s way up over the past couple of days and dirty….