Lost to trout for over a century Silver Bow Creek below Butte is once again a viable fishery. Thanks to hundreds of millions spent to cleanup the Nation's Largest Superfund Site. Restoration efforts targeted not only the creek but surrounding landscape laid waste by the once booming copper mines of Butte and Anaconda. For more click the link below...
http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/fishermen-mark-restoration-of-silver-bow-creek-fishery/article_6b5d2ad7-f7f0-5012-abdc-3801d509153a.html
For more good news regards the upper Clark Fork and Silver Bow Creek click the link below...
http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/mailbag/clark-fork-river-good-news-for-restoration/article_5d42ffac-9630-11e1-aa79-001a4bcf887a.html
Big Hole spiked up about 200 cfs overnight but is still in great shape considering the relatively high flow (3600). According to Al visibilty is in the neighborhood of 3 feet and streamers and nymphs are still the best ways to go. Big brown trout continue to show up with fair regularity all up and down the river. We both stand by our earlier predictions "the worst of the runoff is over." Barring heavy downpours cool, cloudy weather over the next several days should bring it down even more...
The Beaverhead is running just under 700 cfs out dam and near 900 at Barretts. Whether or not the high flows continue is of course up to the irrigation bosses but if I were to guess don't look for it to come down anytime soon...The usual nymphs--scuds, flashbacks, micro mays, lightning bugs, crane fly larvae--and streamers remain the hot ticket items...no surprise there, eh?
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