REPORT:
The river sections above Missoula all the way up are JUST now heading back down from a bump in flows that knocked back the fishing a bit. It’s still good, but not what it was. By tomorrow, this upper river will be solidly back in the game. The lower river down around Superior and St. Regis has been giving up AMAAAAAAZING fishing on top with goldens and green drakes. Today’s bright sunshine will change things up a bit, but in the stable flows and with the color that remains in the water, you should expect good stuff down low again today. At the very least, you’ll have very good afternoon/evening caddis action but will likely take it to ’em all day long on big attractor/golden stone patterns with deep droppers of stuff like red San Juans or olive p-tails.
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HATCHES: Salmonflies, drakes, caddis, even a few hoppers on the warm afternoons.
FLIES: Big button emergers or parachute patterns, standard stonefly attractor junk with 18″ droppers. Big prince nymphs, Peacock double beads, Griffith’s gnats and zebra midges on sunny days, slow moving crystal buggers or bunny junk in #8s that’re peach or yellow, double dutch skwala, size 18 adams or purple haze.
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