REPORT: The creek is up nearly 25% on the lower end compared with yesterday morning.  Water clarity is still good but the graph is heading up big time.  The push of water we’re seeing now won’t last long unless we get a bunch of rain to go along with the wind that’s upon…

Casting for Recovery will be holding a Fly Fishing retreat at the Glacier Outdoor Center on September 6-8 – application dead line is June 28th – you can pick up applications here at the shop or on line at Here is a write up on last years retreat CFR Montana-Glacier Country Casting for Recovery is…

    REPORT: Water temps up here are definitely getting up to that happy level that inspires dryfly consistency.  This morning’s water temp on the lower end is 46 degrees – almost swimming kinda balmy!  The fishing on the creek these days is nothing short of exceptional.  Parachute Adams, royal Wullfs, button emergers, elk hair…

REPORT: Yeah, the wind.  Not a good thing.  Looks like it’s going to be bad today which is unfortunate since water levels are still relatively stable on this river and the cloud cover would also have been a huge benefit. Contrary to the silly little goofball who e-mails us accusatory tirades about how the Clark…

The river is seeing an aggressive bump in flows this morning after the unusually warm couple of days we had.  This won’t help your prospects much especially since they’re calling for NASCAR speed winds today as well, but the Bitterroot has been fishing SOOOOOO well recently, that we think it’ll still give up at least…

  REPORT: It’s going to freakin’ HOWL over here today.  This river can give up seriously disruptive wind and today looks to be one of those days.  If you can manage a drift with about ANYTHING subsurface that doesn’t get blown in whitecap fashion back upstream, you’ll hook up.  Just a matter of how badly…