Fly Fishing Report Brought To You By Our Missoula Fly Fishing Guides And Fly Shop Staff.
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Bitterroot River
The Bitterroot river fishing has been fishing much better over the last few weeks with the cooler night time and daytime temperatures, and rain we’ve been seeing lately.
The lower river is still seeing some high water temperatures in the afternoon, but decent temperature in the early morning.
The upper river is doing much better as far as water temperatures are concerned, even getting down into the lower 50’s degree temps in the early morning.
With night time temperatures cooling down and longer nights, we should see the fishing improve a lot over the next few weeks and in to the fall.
The hatches right now are Trico’s, Hoppers and Hecubas.
It will continue to be an early morning game until temps continue to drop and hoot owl is lifted.
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Blackfoot River
The Blackfoot river fishing has improved over the last few weeks with the cooler night time temps and rain we received lately. The cooling trend looks like it’s going to continue with future weather forecasts temperatures of highs in the 70’s on some days and lower 80’s for the next week or so.
The fishing should only get better from here on out.
As of now, it’s still and early morning game and off by 2pm due to hoot owl. We expect hoot owl to be lifted as the nights become longer and water temps continuing to drop over the next couple of weeks.
We’re still seeing a few spruce moths kick around but they were pretty short lived this year. Focus your time on other terrestrials like hoppers, ants and beetles.
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Clark Fork River
The Clark Fork river like the rest of our rivers, is starting to improve with cooler night time temperatures and the recent rain events. The water temperature yesterday at the superior gauge topped out at 68, still pretty warm but starting to improve. This downward temperature trend should continue in the coming weeks with cooler night time temps and the longer nights coming will really improve fishing and fish safety.
As of now, we are still on hoot owl restrictions but we expect that to be lifted in the next few week.s
The Clark Fork and the rest of our local rivers are shaping up to be a great fall for fly fishing this year.
Hatches to focus on are Trico’s, Terrestrials and Hecubas.
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Rock Creek
Rock Creek fishing has been good over the last week with the cooler temps, and should continue to fish better and better as we move into longer nights and cooler temps. The future forecast is cooler than average and this should improve fishing going forward.
Rock Creek is still under hoot owl restrictions, so get up early and fish the morning and done fishing by 2pm. We expect the restrictions to be lifted in the next couple weeks as water temps are dropping.
It’s been mostly a terrestrial game out there lately, so have your Hoppers, Ants and Beetles ready.
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August Hatches
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