Missouri River Reports

The last couple of days has continued to be great fishing up on the Missouri. The lack of caddis has been surprising, but there have been enough fish up on BWO'S dries to keep it interesting for the dry fly crowd from early afternoon on. The forecast the rest of the week should improve this just so long as the ind stays down. We've been

Opening day around the state should have folks scattering to and fro. No need to go fish the Mo right now, it's super crowded and all the fish are dead. Go to the Beaverhead or your favorite small stream instead. If you do end up coming up to the Mo, you'll find that the fish are not in fact dead and are eating a lot

We fished thought the canyon today and got onto lots of fish in the riffle around mid canon eating little nymphs. Wind was bad and out of the north so not much for dries and boat fishing was tough in the runs and glides. Fish were eating well though, much like they have been. Seeing better results with deep nymphing these last few days using

What can I say that sounds different? I fished the dam to Craig today and it was good. Nymphing with little pheasant tails in size 18-20 with a tungsten bead followed by a little green machine with some spilt shot about 7 feet under an indicator in the faster water was very good. Clouds and drizzle came our way early afternoon and we found fish eating

The Missouri continues the low and clear for this time of year and the word is that they are going to keep the flows stable for awhile. I think that we've seen the worse for the Dearborn and Little Prickly Pear which has not ha much impact on the river conditions anyway. Not much othe way of dries that last couple of days, but there

Dropping flows today sent some for he fish out of the skinny water, so we found more fish out a little deeper. I'm sure that they are still in the skinny stuff too, we just caught more out in the deeper parts of the runs. Not as many March Browns today, but the Caddis came off pretty think late afternoon. Rising fish were sitting

The whole river is still in great shape with none of the tribs messing things up to any degree of significance. I fished the dam to Craig today and focused on nymphing with small tungsten flies for the most part. Lots of changing of the leader length depending on the water we're fishing right now...long with weight for the deep runs and short

Flows continue to be stable and low for this time of year. The whole river is in great shape in terms of clarity so no need to jam into the top stretches at this point. I fished from the Dearborn to Mtn. Palace today and found fish eating very well in shallow and deep water. Lots of folks up here are running short nymphs rigs

Flows are still low for this time if year, compared to the last few anyway, so expect to have a little tougher time nymphing right next to the boat. Fish are in shallow water and around the various ledges and drop offs. Nymphing with a shorter leader rig, 3-5 feet overall fished with little weight in towards the bank is a good way to go

I've been fishing the lower river the last couple of days and finding fish eating dries from around noon to 3 very well in the canyon stretch. March Browns have been coming off in decent number on the last 2 sunny days, so I imagine it would be very good if we get a cloudy day before the river comes up or the Dearborn blows out.