Thanksgiving week ahead. Hooray!
Holiday fishing at hand here in central Montana with water temps and air temps and flows all agreeing that you should be here, at least for a spell this coming week.
Skwala gear can be had at Headhunters of Craig as we enjoy the first snow fall this week. Several days of snow will hopefully make our river a holiday spectacle. Snow is clean. Snow means winter. Winter means Skwala waders and 3 to 4 season gear all available at Headhunters.
Snow in the forecast. Monday some wind. No worries. Skip that day with the breeze becoming 20 plus. No fishing. But later in the week we should see some streamer strippers, swingers, and couple dry fly fanatics. Calm, overcast, snowing.
Water temps still falling. Water levels fortunately not falling. 3K. Water temps 46.5F.
Anlgers still fishing the entirety of the river. Have seen anglers in. the lower reaches as well. Streamer anglers love the lack of pressure. Can toss the fly at locales that have not been fished. Clean water is good water. Have used a dry fly line, an intermediate fly line, and a pretty aggressive sink tip this past two weeks. Fishing differing depths wading as well as from the boat.
Nymphers stuck to the sow bug and small mayfly combo. Rightfully so. A great rig for another couple weeks. Then, I suspect will will make a significant change and throw a Pink fly, and a sow. Suppose. A new seasonal rig.
Swingers getting deeper as the water temps fall towards the 30’s. Fine tune your depth with tips appropriate for the early winter session. Intermediate to start, followed by RIO Intermediate MOW tips found at HH of Craig and the new updated SA Skagit Tips. If you like the SALE stuff see us this season for the closeout Spey gear that has to go at easy on the budget pricing.
The Best Flies Under the Big Sky with a huge selection of not only streamer patterns but lots and lots of Spey centric patterns to fill your Spey boxes today! Scratch that Spey Itch in Craig at House of Headhunters .
Shop open daily 8am. All services available. Check out the lodging site CraigLodging.com if you want to Gert away of The Weeknd or mid week to scratch that fishing itch.