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The Clark Fork has stabilized with the rest of our waters. The flow above town is hanging at 4900 cfs and dropping slowly. Th Flows on the upper sections are far more inviting but the clarity has improved well from the top to the bottom. If you're heading this direction tandem nymph rigs and streamers are going to be your most productive bets but you should see some top water bugs popping too. The millions dollar question is if the fish are looking up for them. Be prepared either way with some March brown and skwala patterns in the way of parachute adams, Parachute pheasant tails, rogue skwalas, carnage skwalas, Bullet head skwalas, and peacock Barr flies. For subsurface patterns look at using olive stone fly nymphs, pheasant tails, micro stones, San Juan worms, and prince nymphs. For streamers use double gangas, dungeons, buggers, sparkle minnows, and dark sculpin patterns. Keep your rigs tight to the banks, in these higher flows the fish tend to displace towards the banks.

 

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