Missouri River Fishing Report - 3/20

 

FWP will be shocking 2 miles below the Hanon Access

The Bitterroot has stabilized and is on a steady drop with the flows above town at 3100cfs. The clarity is good and improving with the lack of new run off too. The skwalas have been popping and the fish are starting to look up for them again after the funky flows we had. For top water patterns use a rogue skwala, bullet head skwala, carnage skwala, flush floater, or a peacock Barr fly. The march browns have started to make an appearance as well. For the March browns use a size 14 or 16 parachute adams or parachute pheasant tail for your best luck. It'll take till mid afternoon for it to warm up enough to get the bugs rolling, so be prepared to fish subsurface till you see the top water bugs coming off. Underneath use pheasant tails, olive double beaded stones, skwala nymphs, Pat's rubber legs, Hare's ear flash backs, and micro stones. The flows are still a little high so expect the fish to be sitting tight to the banks.

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