The Kingfisher Fly Shop

There are good hatches of PMDs, caddis and hoppers and the fish are eating all of them.  The blazing midday sun won’t help your topwater prospects that much, but there will still be fish looking here and there.  The best dryfly action right now is early in the day and then again in the evening…

Probably one of your best midday fishing options these days, and the morning and evening fishing is very good.  Like the Blackfoot, Rock Creek has more riffles and faster water than the ‘root or Clark Fork allowing the fish more protection from direct sunlight (fish do sunburn you know!) and predators.  The hatches are good…

Fishing is still solid pretty much all day long on the Blackfoot these days provided you’re lathered up with sunscreen and protective clothing.  It’s HOT out there!!  The fish on this river don’t seem to mind with willing fatties rising to PMDs early, attractors and terrestrials midday and caddis in the evenings.  Pulling streamers through…

REPORT: Water temps are moving upward and the unrelenting sun have the fish hunkering down on the Clark Fork midday these days.  You can tag a few every now and then, but it’s not the feeding frenzy we’ve been enjoying on this river lately . . .at least not during the heat of the day. …

The heat is definitely catching up with us now with flows continuing to fall and water temps creeping upward.  Last year, water temps started becoming an issue around the 16th of July and this year, the rivers are running about 1/2 the volume of last year and dealing with near record breaking heat.  Some cloud…

There are good hatches of PMDs, caddis and hoppers and the fish are eating all of them.  The blazing midday sun won’t help your topwater prospects that much, but there will still be fish looking.  The best dryfly action right now is early in the day and then again in the evening when the caddis…

Oh yeah, it’s a happy place like all the other rivers now that we’ve gotten the first few days of blazing sun out of the way.  PMDs,  hoppers and caddis have been the go to bugs on top although leggy attractor dries (PMX,Chew toys, etc.) with deep droppers have also been working well.  You’ll have…

REPORT: Clouds are almost always a better deal on the Clark Fork (as the past 2 weeks have demonstrated – how was THAT for crazy good fishing), but this time of the year with the water on the drop, bright sun isn’t the issue it can be in August.  While there was an ABRUPT slow…

The blazing sun that can make the other rivers temperamental is Blackfoot happiness due to the river’s less glassy surface characteristics.  Bright sun will have the fish up and eating terrestrials such as ants and hoppers today, with spruce moths just around the corner.  There are still remnant salmonflies on the mid and upper reaches…

So you’ve got today and tomorrow left to fish the creek from a boat this year.  Flows are about 1/2 of what they were on this day last year, though, so wading up here is almost a better option.  The fish are being hugely cooperative up here these days eating everything from hoppers to PMDS. …