Beginning in April, once a week we will post a brief description of a rig we saw during the previous week that had one of our Kingfisher stickers on the window. When you recognize it as being your car described in our hatch report, stop into the shop and pick out 2 dozen nymphs or dries on us!!

 

This week’s winner of the two dozen free flies, just for having a Kingfisher sticker in his window, is a….. (drum roll)

Black Suburban: with the last two digits of the license plate being… 90

Drive your rig down to the shop and pick up your bugs!  Thanks for being a Kingfisher customer.

 

The Bitterroot is going to be a great float option for today. With the nicer weather on tap, you can expect others to be thinking the same thing though.  The flows just above town are hanging at 3400 cfs and still dropping.  The clarity is still mediocre but good enough to get the fish moving.  You can expect to see a window of dry fly fishing starting around noon with skwalas and March browns.  When you start to see heads chowing, toss on a purple haze or a low riding skwala pattern.  A rogue skwala or a bullet head should work best.  A dry dropper or tandem nymph rig would be a great choice to get the day started, or at least until things warm up enough for the dry fly action to start.  Underneath you’ll want to be swinging pheasant tails, Pat’s rubber legs, fast water princes, regular princes, flashback copper johns, San Juan worms and micro stones.  For streamers big black and yellow bunnies, olive and black buggers, sculpzillas and big dark articulated junk should turn some fatties for you today.

 

Browns Lake is iced off, open and fishing well. However, the private land owners surrounding Browns Lake are now enforcing there NO trespass rights. All the bank fishing with the exception of the public land at the south and east sides of the lake is now closed to walking. We have provided a map showing the property lines and places to legally access the lake. The boundaries highlighted with green are open to the public.

 

1/2 OFF Fridays. 50% Off your 1st dozen nymphs and dries! Every Friday – Every Week

Additionally, all dries and nymphs are $1.95 every day to begin with and nearly all streamers are $2.25 – EVERY day, EVERY week

HATCHES/Flies: Small Smaller, low riding skwala patterns, size 16 Goddard caddis for the nemouras, extended bodies and cripples for the drakes/March browns, X-caddis.

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