Missouri River November Fishing Forecast

Missouri River November Forecast

Winter rates start on November 16th

Missouri River Winter Lodging

Craig Trout Camp is open for business with the Brown and Rainbow Cabins $125/night. Craig House which sleeps up to 6 anglers is also open all winter long. Full kitchen, killer living room with a big flat screen along with leather couches for afternoon napping.

Missouri River Winter Guided Trips

Trout Spey Guide Trips $400 . Get out on the water for the day with your favorite Headhunters Guide all winter long. Every guide trip is $400. Whether you use a single handed rod or a two handed rod. Your choice. The winter is a fantastic time to fish with not many, if any other boats, on the water.

Restaurants and Canyon Store

Fishing, Food, and Drink

Missouri River November Fishing Forecast
Craig Trout Camp open all year long!

Joe’s Bar is one daily 8am til 2am. Also closed on Christmas. The Frenchman and Me in Wolf Creek open daily until we here otherwise. The Wolf Creek Canyon Store is open for gas and convenience items. Beer too. We don’t know about the Oasis Bar. The bar is open for sure, but the food component? Call and ask for addt’l info on any and all of the above. We will point you in the right direction.

Craig Sewer Tax ends November 15th. Tax free purchases all the way through the winter months including all your Headhunters Fly Shop Christmas purchases.

Headhunters Fly Shop Upcoming Events

Wonen’s only Spey Clinic November 7th

Sold Out! This 6 student class is sold out. We are happy to offer a Women’s Clinic for the first time sponsored by Headhunters Fly Shop and with our two female leaders Sara Roholt and Beth Langell. Fun time this coming Saturday. Look on this site for any addt’l info in regards to Women’s Only events.

Headhunters Free Spey Clinics

Beginning in December. Sign up at the shop or on the phone for these 20 student limit 2 handed casting clinics. Swing Season is here. Get in on it. 406-235-3447 for more info.

Remember we have a ton of demo rods for the 2 handed enthusiast or the rank beginner. Rods from Sage, Echo, Orvis and more. We got all of the cool demo lines too. Skagit and Scandi spoken here. 

Missouri River November Fishing Forecast

Missouri River November Fishing Forecast
Fishing the lower Missouri River

November brings lots of things. It does not bring people. Quiet waters. Fish tom Dam to Cascade with some nice peaceful lack of pressure.

BWO’s should last until Thanksgiving. Some midges around too. Hot flies? Parachutes, cripples, emerges, soft hackles, and spinners.

The streamer bite is picking up. That is good for the past several weeks, the streamer season, has not been all that terrific. The swing bite is picking up too. Both are worth doing for the next several months.

The nymphing is of course very good. Short leashing in the lower water levels, as we are below 3K, is outstanding. Find the deep green and toss it in. Still finding fish in the obvious sexy water spots. That will all end when the water temps dip below the 40F mark. But enjoy until then. We still have til about that TDAy for those temps to hold.

Headhunters Fly Shop and Guide Service Winter Hours

Open daily 8am-6pm. New Winter Hours. We will roll with these hours through March ’16. Open 7 days a week. Everyday but Christmas. Lodging available everyday, and night, including Christmas. Stop in for that winter time free coffee on your way through, for a chat, for those Christmas presents for all your fly fishing friends. Pick yourself up something nice too…you deserve it.

We love the late fall and early winter period. Quiet. Perfect. Slow. Snow. Overcast. Occasionally windy. More often calm.

November is good.

Check out this Spey Video here.

 

Missouri River Montana Fishing Report 11.5.14

Missouri River Montana Fishing Report 11.5.14

Two Words.

Quiet. If you say it slow enough and pause on each syllable it blends into two words.

The Missouri River update is as follows…

Water temps in the lower 50’s. Air temps daily in the upper 40’s and lower 50’s. Pretty normal for this time of year although it is commonly cooler. Overcast is the predominant sky color. Grey is good with us.

The landscape will soon turn grey too. Or grayish-tan. Or dark grey-brownish.

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Upper River. Quiet. A boat maybe at the dam and at WC Bridge. Nice. A few wade fisher fellers in this reach as well. Nobody bothering you in this section. Not may if any bugs. If the quantity changes we will let you know. Don’t think you are gonna go up there and witness a mega hatch. Cause you’re not gonna.

Streamer fishing average. Quiet though and you can fish it at the bank for another month. Fun stuff. Traditional flies been working well like Zonkers, buggers, Skiddish, Clousers.

Nymph fishing good. Fish it short all day long if you wish. Or long. Your choice. Pretty fun stuff. Scuds, sows up top with a mayfly dangling off of the front fly. Split if you want it.

Mid-River. Quiet. Really cool blind dry water and you can do well with this technique. Adams, see’um type of flies with a dropper if you wish. Try one in the film for even more creative anglers. Skitter ti? Yes, for another week or two. Then they will not look at that moving sideways stuff.

Streamer fishing pretty good. Lots of smaller fish on the bite in the canyon. Fun stuff. The juveniles are on the serious chew. Later afternoons are better. The fish do not like to get aggressive until lunch time. Before then you might believe you have forgotten how to fish. No worries. The afternoons have been better. Sleep in. Honest.

Nymph fishing? Great. Double Pheasant Tail type flies. A big one and a little one.

Lower River. Your best bet for BWO’s. The only place where they have come off well. Daily? I don’t know. But maybe? Seek out bug loving trout and you will be rewarded.

Good streamer water too. Blind dries. Yes they will come to it.

Headhunters Fly Shop open daily at 8am. Guide trips out this week and next. A nice time to be here. It’s quiet.

Perfect.