The Kingfisher Fly Shop

Partly sunny and a bit windy over here today but the fishing’s been stellar.  Good numbers of PMDs coming off in the mornings, then spinners and caddis after lunch.  The nymphing is back to no brainer status and the streamer fishing has gotten very good once again too.  You can target rising fish with appropriately…

REPORT: What more can we say other than, “you should go”!!  You have 6 more days that you can fish from a boat on the creek, so if you’ve been putting it off, better get it done soon.  Drakes, PMDs, golden stones, caddis, it’s all good right now.  Rain or shine, you can expect good…

Clarity and insanely good fishing has returned to the Blackfoot!  The fish are still looking for salmonflies mid river and higher on the warm and sunny days.  In the clouds, green drake type stuff that can encompass everything from royal Wulffs in a 10 to more exacting comparaduns will motivate strikes.  Leggy, twitched attractors like…

The ‘root is in full swing just like everything else in the Missoula area right now!  Dropping water levels, prolific hatches and some alternating clouds and sun.  Good stuff!  PMDs, green drakes, hoppers and caddis have been the go to bugs on top although leggy attractor dries (PMX,Chew toys, etc.) with deep droppers have also…

REPORT: We are in the midst of some of the best fishing of the year at this point and the Clark Fork is leading the way.  All the way from its upper reaches clear down to St. Regis, the Clark has been giving up exceptional dry fly action.  We’ve been hearing the term, “just like…

Windy and rainy lately but today may be a better dryfly proposition with more calm conditions and less torrential down pours.  You’ll see bugs (mostly PMDs and caddis) and you’ll see fish taking there here and there and maybe more readily in today’s favorable conditions.  Tandem nymph rigs down deep under an indicator will almost…

REPORT: The Clark Fork has been fishing like the Clark of old lately and that’s a VERY good thing!  It’s been awhile.  Blizzard hatches on the upper and lower river are keeping the fish looking to the surface HUGE from about 11 right up until dark on the warm evenings anyway.  More like until about…

It’s back on in the clouds and dropping water today.  Green drakes and PMDs will have the fish looking to the surface pretty much all day long.  Everything from bigger button emergers to cripples to comparaduns should get you bent in today’s nearly ideal summer dryfly weather.  The cloud cover should help your lower river…

It’s days away from fishing huge on top.  This is not to say you won’t be able to take fish with dries today, but the river is still settling out from the last bump in flows.  There are good numbers of salmonflies on the mid and upper river and lots of drakes, PMDS and caddis…