River high but settled. Fish are looking up — bigger flies, confident takes.
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Trends shown where the gauge supports them
Live readings — water temperature is an estimate where the gauge does not record it.
How to fish · for brown trout
When · where · method · kit
Hatches & runs
Twelve months at a glance
Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
Today's fly · curated pack
6 patterns from this venue's curated pack
Detail · next 12h
The two readings most likely to move the verdict
Evidence
6 factors, signed
Clark Fork · about
Background · character · contributors
The Clark Fork is a river with a hard past — the upper reaches carried a century of mining poison out of Butte, and what you fish today is the product of an enormous cleanup. Below Missoula it's grown back into a big, broad freestone full of browns and rainbows that eat trico and baetis and a fine fall caddis. It's a float river in its lower reaches and a wade river up high. Like most things around here it goes brown in June runoff and then settles into a long, generous summer and fall.
Clark Fork · directions
Clark Fork · zones
Seasons · zones · per-species rules
Clark Fork · permits
The Clark Fork is a river with a hard past — the upper reaches carried a century of mining poison out of Butte, and what you fish today is the product of an enormous cleanup.
River high but settled. Fish are looking up — bigger flies, confident takes.
Live readings — water temperature is an estimate where the gauge does not record it.
Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.
The Clark Fork is a river with a hard past — the upper reaches carried a century of mining poison out of Butte, and what you fish today is the product of an enormous cleanup. Below Missoula it's grown back into a big, broad freestone full of browns and rainbows that eat trico and baetis and a fine fall caddis. It's a float river in its lower reaches and a wade river up high. Like most things around here it goes brown in June runoff and then settles into a long, generous summer and fall.