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Other Activities => Fishing => Topic started by: Widgeondeke on May 10, 2019, 11:17:15 AM

Title: Missouri River
Post by: Widgeondeke on May 10, 2019, 11:17:15 AM: I had the pleasure to fish the Missouri on Wednesday. We floated from the Holter dam to Craig or about 7 hours.
The morning starting slow, only 1 fish in the first 2.5 hours. About 11:30a we figured out what they were hungry for....Baetis
I ended up landing 15 trout total in a range of 15"-19.5". Lost a huge brown that would have been well over 20, but he snapped the line.
Great day on the water. I saw Osprey catching trout and numerous waterfowl(mergansers, honkers, mallards, scaup, goldeneye, harlequin, bufflehead, coots, etc). Saw both whitetail & muley deer, elk, speed goats and bighorn sheep.
the largest fish in the group was a 25" brown
It even snowed yesterday before flying back to the 80 degrees here. Mt Rainier was out in all her beauty

It was a tough business trip :chuckle: , but I woul dlove to do it again. :tup:

I would say this should be on any fishermans bucket list :twocents:
Title: Re: Missouri River
Post by: Karl Blanchard on May 10, 2019, 11:27:02 AM: Awesome! My biggest regret is never fishing the mighty Missouri all the years I hunted it.
Title: Re: Missouri River
Post by: Stein on May 10, 2019, 11:59:03 AM: It's a nice place to be for sure, Craig to Mountain Palace was my old haunt, I floated that in a fishing float tube, multiple rafts, swam it and once and even on a cooler in a momentary lapse of judgement. Great place to fish, take in the scenery and enjoy what Montana has to offer.