Blackfoot River Fishing Report – 5/8

Guided Fly Fishing Bitterroot river

L-GOPR0424Beginning 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 Blackfoot seems to be on the drop with the colder weather we’ve been having.  The flow at the bottom is sitting around 6700 cfs with poor clarity.  It’s going to be a few days before the river stabilizes and the fishing gets decent enough to justify the trip up here. Until then, Harpers lake up past Clearwater junction has been giving up fish.  Small craw patterns, wooley buggers and Scuds under an indicator should all work up on Harpers as long as the weather cooperates.

 

 

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.

browns access

HATCHES: Midges, capnias,
PATTERNS: Red or pink San Jaun worms in tandem with size 12 or 14 squirrel tail nymphs. Size 16 or 18 para mayfly stuffADDITIONAL INFORMATION: You know we’ll refill your Kingfisher label gink bottles for a buck dontcha?