Montana Fishing Report: Blackfoot River

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Date	05-Nov-09
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Conditions : Blackfoot River: The higher up the river you go the better it will get, and the size of the fish you catch will increase. Nymphing has become the name of the game now that we went straight from summer into winter all of a sudden. The Blackfoot will be your coldest fishing, but also one of your best streamer fishing choices. Nymph rigs with stonefly nymphs, worms, princes, PTs, etc bounced through faster moving riffles and through deeper eddies will give up some fish as well.

Hatches: You're better off nymphing than trying to match any hatches. Just fish streamers, san juans, or small bh nymphs like a copper john

Fly Patterns: big princes, san juan worms, copper johns, pheasant tails, buggers, yuk bugs, sculpins, JJ specials, any big nasty looking hopper like a Miller Show, orange stimulators.

Reported by: The Grizzly Hackle

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About: - Fishing the Blackfoot: The Blackfoot is an excellent fishery for rainbow, cutbows, browns and mountain whitefish throughout its length. Good fishing on the Blackfoot fishing starts around the River Junction Campground. (more on the Blackfoot River & access information)			Brook Trout Mountain Whitefish Rainbow Trout Westslope Cutthroat Trout Brown Trout

Misc Info: - Exceptions to Standard Regulations Entire River And Tributaries Except The Clearwater River Combined Trout: 3 daily and in possession, no rainbow trout over 12 inches, any size brown trout. (See Clearwater River Drainage for exception.) Catch-and-release for cutthroat trout. Artificial lures only within 100-yard radius of the mouths of Belmont Creek, Gold Creek, Monture Creek and North Fork Blackfoot River. Landers Fork Mouth To Stimson Lumber Dam (Milltown Reservoir) Catch-and-release for brook trout. (This regulation is a result of bull trout being misidentified and harvested as brook trout. Brook trout are very rare in this section of river whereas bull trout are common.) Mainstem Only Extended season for northern pike and whitefish and catch-and-release for trout open December 1 to third Saturday in May with artificial lures and/or maggots only. Tributaries are closed to fishing. Stimson Lumber Dam Downstream To Milltown Reservoir (Clark Fork River) Northern pike: no limit Extended season for northern pike from December 1 to third Saturday in May, with artificial lures only.