Bitterroot Fishing Report – 4/25


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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!!

The Bitterroot’s flow is on its way up to 4500 cfs and starting losing clarity. With this push of water, you can expect the fish to be back towards the banks and into the side channels once again. The dry fly fishing will be hard to find, so expect to be fishing tandem nymph rigs and streamers. A tandem rig with a Pat’s rubber leg, Skwala nymph, pheasant tail, red copper John, San Juan worm or a micro stone should work. If you want to swing some streamers, use big dark colored buggers and sculpin patterns tight to the banks. In higher flows like this, getting your junk to the fish can be tricky. Using heavier than usual bugs and giving them an extra second or two to get down can make a HUGE difference. It’s supposed to be cold and wet all day today so don’t forget to bring a jacket.

If you own and iPad 1 or 2, we have 6 MFC original iPad covers to give away. The first people through the door get’em!!! If you come in with a kingfisher tattoo on your forehead you can have two!!!

 

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.

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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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