It was a cold day on the Bitterroot for this sturdy group from San Diego. A dark day makes for dark photos but that was a nice trout Don caught. Day one of three days. More photos coming I hope.
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| Jack is holding Don’s trout before they released it. |
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| Bitterroot River |
Jack and Jeff always do this stretch of the river in late March as an annual trip. This starts their fishing season off and helps them get caught up after a long winter. It was a nice day overall, except for someone doing some kind of control burn on the bank…but the company and the fishing were both good.
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| Jeff with a trout |
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| trout, duh |
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| Questionable air quality. Someone is burning a pile near the bank. |
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| One of the cutthroat I caught, yea! |
The temperature was warmer as promised by the weather man. It got to 66 degrees, lovely afternoon with some wind sometimes, no wind sometimes..just enough to keep you tuned in to your casting skills. Bugs, yes. That is all I will say. The fish were rising, we had so much fun. John Hickman, Jack, me and our Chesapeake Bay Retriever Freda. Happy day!
Here are some photos – see the slideshow below.
Cool weather, but when you like to fish, you layer up and go for it. Not much wind and no rain so the fishing was actually pretty darn good. Thanks Pam and Rick for spending two great days with Wapiti Waters.
March 31, I updated this post with some photos that Pam and Rick sent. Thanks for sharing!
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| Photo send in by Rick and Pam – beautiful trout! |
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| Tucker Crossing on the middle Bitterroot, looking southeast at the Sapphire Mountains |
This month has been good for the snowpack. The Bitterroot Mountains have been receiving and storing snow at the higher elevations. There have been some teaser warm days, but the current week (third full week of March) will be cooler in temperatures and more snow is in the forecast.
Sunday (3/18) Evening’s First Alert Forecast: Slushy Snow Tonight for MISSOULA COUNTY
By Adam Painter
Meteorologist
NWCC – Montana MAP with SNOTEL Current Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) % of Normal
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| Stream flow data in the middle Bitterroot River |
