Our Report

BRO’s Tips of the Week:
Spring skwala stone fly fishing has a lot to do with the profile of the fly and length of drift. Long thin bodied dries are best when dead drifted along slow banks, logs, down tailouts and even just swirling around in eddies. Longest float wins.

7 Day Outlook:
Warmer days now are going to jumpstart the hatches on the Clark. We’ve enjoyed some great days on the Clark both upper and Lower but the clarity diminished last weekend and is just now coming back. Water levels are dropping and clarity improving now. The fishing should pick up again if the warm weather doesn’t bring down some low valley snow.

Our Recommendations for the Best Techniques and Patterns:
We start with long droppers under higher floating skwalas and chubbies or even short lease a coupla nymphs under and indicator. As soon as we notice the little brown stones in the air or a skwala or two on the water shorten the dropper length and weight and start fishing the low pro dries in thinner water and tighter to the banks.

Goings on at World Headquarters in Missoula:
April starts our month long Raffles ending in an Orvis H3 fly rod!!! See our Social or call for detes.
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