Blackfoot River
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10-Oct-17
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: Blackfoot River: The Blackfoot is getting pretty cold at night making for tough fishing in the mornings. Wait till things warm up. A 1-2 hour window of dry fly fishing with BWOs in the afternoons has made for some good to great top water action. Extended Body BWOs, Tilt Wings and P-Hazes have been getting the job done in a sz 18-20. Sub-surface action on nymphs and streamers has been working better as far as numbers go. Nymphing typical fall nymphs like October Caddis, San Juans, Eggs, Red Copper Johns, PTs and Rubberlegs. Some big fish are looking for streamers in the tailouts and deeper runs. Change up your retrieve to see what they want from a dead drift to a fast rip. Dungeons, Drunk and Disorderlys, Baby Gongas, Smoke n Mirrors, Flash Minnows, EP Streamers and Zoo Cougars. Reported by: The Grizzly Hackle |
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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)
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- Brook Trout
- Mountain Whitefish
- Rainbow Trout
- Westslope Cutthroat Trout
- Brown Trout
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- 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.
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