The Kingfisher Fly Shop

The entire river is on the drop right now and the fishing up here should be decent today, better tomorrow.  Higher water (even though it’s dropping), combined with wind and the first bright sun in awhile won’t do you any favors.  Luckily, with the revised forecast, it looks like you’ll get a bit more time…

The Blackfoot has stabilized for the most part and should begin to head back down quickly either today or tomorrow.  With the seemingly every changing weather forecasts, it now looks like runoff could be postponed at least a few more days as the daytime highs will be considerably lower than originally predicted.  Combine this with…

  REPORTS: Looks like better shooting on the Mo today as winds lay down a bit from the INSANITY they have been recently.  The wind in the forecast today should feel like still conditions by comparison.  Look for the standard nymph fare to tear ’em up over here as well as a variety of dries…

Yeeeeeeah, you’ll want to wait a day or two for this one.  The lower river is running about 1800 cfs higher than it was 2 days ago – much above the 300 cfs increase in 24 hours we use as a fish stalling yardstick.  The upper river and the North Fork are all on the…

  The uppermost river might treat you ok, but the river from about Darby downstream is going to need a day to get its act together.  It’s not that you can’t catch some fish up here today, but you’ll work much harder for them than you have been or even will be tomorrow.  Pretty substantial…

  REPORT: The upper end should fish well for you today having risen only 300 cfs in the past 48 hours.  The mid river (through town here) and the lower sections below about Tarkio are going to need a day to chill having seen increases up to 2000 cfs in 48 hours.  The river has…

  REPORT: Back to being fish and user friendly as water levels drop and the daytime highs start to think about creeping upward again.  It’s going to take a few hours for the water to warm up a bit since it’s starting out this morning at 40 degrees.  By early afternoon, though, you should have…

    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…