Missouri River Fly Fishing Report-Montana=New Siberia

Monday Morning

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I drove to the Missouri River sunday evening to guide some great folks from Calgary Alberta.  The Bow River is an awesome river but the fly fishing in Montana cannot be beaten. The snow began around Lincoln, Montana, and by the time I made it to Wolf Creek, Montana it was a full blown blizzard. I awoke in Cascade to 20 degrees (I don't know what the hell Celsius that is, for all of you Canadians) but it was cold.  My entire boat was covered in ice and the prospect of fishing looked tough. Canucks are tough folks and most of them have a good sense of humor.  So we went fishing. We were all rather skeptical but the Mo' rarely disappoints.  Oh, and we were the only boat in that section. Go figure.

This was our first fish of the day and it ate a dry fly. We caught a bunch more and several were as large as this, but one of our mates was nearly dead from hypothermia and we skated through the afternoon. But anyway, they will eat a dry right now on the Missouri. Try an 18 zebra midge dropper if the dry fly bite is spotty.
   No need to put a pink ball on your leader and chase it down the river.

Late last week we hit a spot of lake fishing. Try the olive bugger on a short strip. They'll eat it. If you start to get follows but no take, vary your retrieve until you find what get's 'em going.  A hare's ear under a tiny indicator will work too. Remember that they have a lot of time to check things out and 4x fluoro can help.

   If you don't like fly fishing in lakes, that's good. More for us.



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Blackfoot River Fly Fishing Report

The last few days on the Bitterroot river have been very good.  There is a little bump in the flows which should make the fly fishing even better. We had some very happy fly fishing clients last week and this coming week should be every bit as good.  There are a few march browns
out, BWOs and quite few skwalas.  If you can't get some of those picky risers to eat a skwala try a 16 parachute.  Adams, haze... Whatever    They'll eat it if you can present it right.
   We fished the Blackfoot River today for fun and it really wasn't that fun. I just couldn't bring myself to go to the Bitterroot on a sunny Saturday.  The h20 was pretty cold and the fish were pretty lethargic. I ripped a big streamer around for a few hours and had only a few grabs by smaller fish. One of us(who shall remain nameless) tied on a Le Juanita ( which is Spanish for the worm) and nailed a few small fish.  All in all it was not good.  Today is the first sunny day in a while and the river is on a slight rise. Never good.
   I heard some reports from the Clark Fork from this week.      Predator

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