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 good over the last week with longer and cooler nights, and some help from some recent rain storms.
Hoot Owl restrictions have been lifted on the lower from the confluence with the Clark Fork upstream to Veterans Bridge. We expect these restrictions to be lifted on the lower river by late this week or early next week if weather forecast stays true. We have some cooler weather headed our way towards the end of this week. The cooler weather and longer nights will make for some much better conditions moving forward.
The water temps on the lower will still be warm this week and still an early morning game and off the water early.
The upper is much different and has substantially cooler water temps.
Hatches right now include mostly terrestrials like Hoppers, Ants and Beetles. We are also seeing some Hecuba’s and Trico’s kicking around as well.
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Blackfoot River
The Blackfoot river fishing has been good lately with the cooler weather moving in and the longer nights that are improving water temperatures. Hoot Owl has been lifted for the whole Blackfoot river and you are now aloud to fish throughout the day.
Water temps are still getting a bit high in the afternoon on warm days, but this will improve a lot over the next week with another cold front moving in and much longer nights than we’ve seen over the last month.
The fishing will just get better and better from here on out for the rest of August and especially September.
It’s mainly a terrestrial game with Hoppers, Ants and Beetles.
The dry fly fishing has been good enough lately to not have to throw a dropper on most days.
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Clark Fork River
The Clark Fork river like the rest of our rivers is improving day by day. With longer nights and cooler temps, the Clark Fork is fishing much better than the last month and is only going to get better with even cooler weather and longer nights coming over the next week or two.
Hoot Owl restrictions have been lifted on the lower river from the confluence of Rock Creek on down.
Restrictions are still in place from the mouth of Warm Springs down to the confluence of Rock Creek.
Dry fly fishing has been good with Terrestrials like Hoppers, Ants, Beetles. The Trico fishing in the morning has been good along with some Hecuab’s during the rainy days.
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Rock Creek
Rock Creek fishing has been good lately and should keep getting better and better with the cooler temps and longer nights ahead. Hoot Owl has been lifted like many of the other river stretches around Missoula.
The dry fly fishing has been good with mainly terrestrials like Hoppers, Ants and Beetles.
Temperatures are still getting a bit high in the afternoon, so focus on the first half of the day this week. Cooler weather is in the forecast for the end of this week and fishing throughout the day should be better after this week, unless weather changes and warmer days come. But The longer nights should really help water temps cool down in the coming week.
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August Hatches
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