Highway 434 |
You can drive over to the Missouri River which is fishing great. You can also now fish the tribs here, there, and everywhere.
View of Craig, MT from the Craig Cemetery |
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Flint Creek below Phillipsburg is another great high water option. Most of the flow comes out of a reservoir from the next drainage over (crazy!) so it has a tailwater aspect to it. It is loaded with medium sized brown trout and the occasional rainbow and there are plenty of larger fish mixed in.
Flint Creek in Six Mile Canyon with Pintler Mountains |
Flint creek fished ok with small streamers in the sun last week. They are brown trout though, so early morning or clouds are good to have on your side. Nymphing with worms and stoneflies was productive lower on the creek where it carries more water and color.
Further up the drainage, Georgetown Lake is an amazing fish factory and will begin to fish like the Dickens soon. The rainbows are in full on spawn mode which has slowed the fishing at the moment. They will be done soon though and if you saw the pics of the east shore and Emily Spring from earlier this week, you know there are more than enough huge trout in this lake to make anyone happy.
Rare afternoon glass on Georgetown Lake |
Georgetown fished best with egg and worms thrown to trout cruising the shoreline and rainbow trout or brook trout looking streamers fished the same way.
The Beaverhead River is a small tailwater in SW Montana. It is one of my favorite streams to fish on the planet.
Christine on the Beav |
Beaverhead Brown |
Tailwater nymphs work here but that's not what I like. The Beaverhead is one of my favorite places to fish streamers. This last trip was no exeption. We were lucky enough to get afternoon clouds and thunderstorms which made sweeping little Matukas through untouched side channels into something I have't stopped thinking about for the last three days. I had mega chase-downs by mean browns and my fly had the effect of an electro-fishing wand where I could at least move, what seemed like, every fish in the river. God, I love that stream.
The Beaverhead Mountains of SW Montana |
Happy Memorial Day and happy spring fishing!
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