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Spring Fly Fishing Bitterroot River Report
 
 
 

 
Montana Bitterroot Fly Fishing Report
May 6, 2012
          I have to say, I have never seen such a major run off in the Month of April!  With record heat and a little rain, the Root reached flood stage in Missoula.  But now there have been some cold days and cold nights and the graphs are looking pretty good.  I think there will be one of the best mid May windows we have had since the drought years.  I floated today with my family from Bell Crossing to Stevinsville and there were some pretty significant changes in the river.  There were a couple new channels and some big changes.  There are a lot of insects hatching, especially the caddis.  Gray Drakes are also hatching in the big flows. The flows up by Darby that have come down to under 2000 cfs and that means there is some clear water and good chances at some dry fly fishing.  The middle river below Hamilton is the mysterious water.  There are sticks floating down the river and lots of sediment in the water.  The visibility is fine, but you should fish streamers and nymphs until you see some rises or find a back eddy that has some trout working.  It is obviously not too hard to be the only boat out there in the bigger sections, but some anglers like that challenge.  The stretches in the Hamilton area and above are the most productive waters in these flows.  You might even find some pretty good caddis fishing.  Remember when you start seeing splashy rises, the trout are chasing the caddis that are emerging or fluttering on the surface.  There are some big hydraulics and the irrigation dams are big so make sure you know what you are doing out there.  Good Luck and watch the flows, if they keep dropping, the fishing might get incredible here in May! 
 
April 22, 2012
          Well, for Earth Day you will receive near record heat and the upper elevation snow melt has been kicked into gear.  Fly Fishing Western Montana rivers will be blown for a while.  Without be able to fish the creeks till the third Saturday in May, the options have been reduced to tailwaters and stillwater fisheries.  
          So what are the prediction models for the future.  Well the river will get pretty big.  If you are not familiar with the NOAA site that has prediction graphs, check out the link for the Bitterroot River near Victor.  And feel free to navigate their site for predictions on other rivers.  Bitterroot River Prediction
          I will keep you posted.  But look for some potentially great fishing in May and early June!
 
 
 
April 21, 2012
Fly Fishing Montana Bitterroot Chesapeake
 
The Higher Water Games are Rising!
         I hope you like the Puppy shot of my dog when she was a pup, well now we have lots of those puppies and they are 6 weeks old.  I have about 4 left if you want the most powerful water dog you have ever known, let me know.  
          Well she is starting to blow today!  The faucet is opening up more and more each day and river(s) will be gushing in just a couple days!  You can fish today and tomorrow, but after tomorrow it might take some creativity to find a spot to fish.  If you look at the Darby Graph, the warm nights have started the snow melt in the higher elevations.  The Bell Crossing Graph shows a river that is about rise pretty fast.  After the heat we have on tap for the next several days, the Western Montana Rivers are gonna show a big pulse.  If I were trying to fish in the next few days, I would concentrate on side channels and use some serious caution on the oars.  The river will have new debris and stronger hydraulics in this pulse.  If the river has visibility, then you may be able to catch some, but the odds are not in your favor.  
        You can fish a rising river and have some measurable success but every day will be different and the lateral lines on the trout are sensing the pressure changes of a river on the rise.  Don’t be afraid to put on the “Blue Light Special Walmart Rig.”  That is my term for when I have to use the San Juan worm tactics with a gumball and a split shot.  For some reason it reminds me of my “Blue Light Special” Zebco days. LOL 
         Try to find the predators with streamers and look for risers in the back eddies for the occasional dry fly moment.  I say there is a possibility of this because the food supply has just increased with the burst of Mother’s Day Caddis.  That’s right, the Caddis have arrived, but just like most times they come out, the river is blowing up.  But trout love Caddis, so they can find a way to eat them in some pretty bad conditions.  All in all, the fishing will not be very good, but the adventure can be fun if there is visibility.  I would have to say that the rowing skill level to row the river safely right now is higher.  There are hydraulics, powerful irrigation dams that take down experienced guides, and new log structures occurring in these HIGHER WATER GAMES.  Good luck!  
 
 
April 16, 2012
Montana Fly Fishing Bitterroot Report
 

Montana Fly Fishing Bitterroot High Water Games

          Since The Hunger Games is such a craze right now, I thought writing about the Fly Fishing Montana high water games would be the theme.  I can tell you this, Flyfishing the Bitterroot River during these flows is a challenge and a great contest.  I did catch some nice trout during the blow out from the heat, but it wasn’t pretty.  I had to use the worm for the first time this year since I really don’t use that stupid thing unless I have to and I did.  There were sticks and logs floating down the river and I had to concentrate on spots like back eddies and seams that had trout looking for respite from the powerful waters of a rising river.  Lots of guides use what some are calling the turd and worm rigs which is basically a stonefly pattern with a worm.  They certainly work, but I would much rather fish a dry fly or a streamer.  Actually there was a day that I did great on skwalas and there were not many rising trout or bugs, but the trout were looking up.  Some of my com padres were out there with the worm rigs and caught some trout along with many trees and whitefish, ughhh.  So if you read my reports I will tell you that these rigs are popular and do work, but they are always in reports.  So what do I think?  The real challenge to me is catching a monster on a dry and trying different techniques and even experiment with some of your invented flies or  patterns!  (Other than the Worm!)  Let the games begin!
          What game do you want to play?  If one wants to fish the Bitterroot at this time of year, you have to have a sense of adventure and respect the power of water.  The levels are over 2000 cfs down by Florence and the morning temperatures are reading about 44 degrees.  The upper river is certainly more popular right now because the flows are dropping and the conditions are great.  I expect some very prolific Amaletus (Gray Drake) hatches on the middle and lower rivers these next couple weeks, as long as conditions remain stable.  I have already seen the spinner fall of the drakes, but the real regatta can and will be any day!
          So how do you approach your day on the water?  I would start of with a skwala and a long over 30 inch dropper (probably prince, P-Tails, copper johns, and any other nymph that can replicate a Drake.  I would also not be afraid to throw a Streamer.  Experiment with colors, but I can tell you that yellow, light brown, black, and light olive are my favorites.  Most people are used to working streamers deep or slow, but to me streamer fishing is second to dry fly fishing in the sense that I want to see the chase or explosion!  That means I do what is called visual streamer fishing which requires a very active retrieve using stripping and the rod tip.  Line control is always and issue when streamer fishing so continue to try and master the impossible!  Try changing direction with your streamer with upstream and downstream mends because the predators love to attack a streamer that appears to be trying to elude death!  
          I will be going fishing this week and locate the right section, maybe even side channels, during the hatch.  Keep your eyes open for large rainbows and browns rising when the drakes come out because even when the water is high, trout can’t resist these bugs that have large gray and black banded bodies.  As I have stated in my previous reports, Skwalas will be around into May, so look to prospect with a Skwala if you are a dry fly fisherman like myself.  Even if the fishing is slow, the results can be awesome for some of the biggest trout in the river.  You can use 2x and 3x on the big dry and 3x and 4x on the Drake imitations depending on the conditions of the river.  It’s not embarrassing to get skunked or not catch fish in these flows but keep researching the river that is changing daily and you might have some great fishing this week.   Good luck out there and I will always tell you that the river can be challenging to row and wade, so please use caution.  The irrigation dams are dangerous and there are lots of hydraulics especially where 2 currents collide that have different speeds!  I will keep you posted on my high water games!  Over the years I have seen some of the largest browns in these spring windows!
April 11, 2012
Bitterroot Montana Fly Fishing report 
  
So what is going on on the Root?  Well it has been fishing great.  The river blew out last week, but the cold weather we had cleared the river up and the water conditions in the past few days have been great.  The river is at a classic level for great conditions, side channels, hatches, and trout looking for dry flies.  But now we have a problem.  We have had near record heat for 2 days and the river is starting to show signs of another pulse.  Will it blow the river?  Well that depends on how much rain we get with this next storm.  The temperatures are going to drop back to normal and conditions may be tough in the next few days as the river reacts to the heat.   I will tell you this.  I have been on the water for 21 years now and I have fished in a lot of vary difficult conditions during spring run off.  I have had days where the river blows up and there is only 2 feet of visibility and there were monsters coming after dries in the muddy conditions.  I know this seems crazy, but it is fishing and I thought I would let you know that you just can’t tell unless you throw yourself in the frying pan.  As a general rule a rising river means trouble, but there are no absolutes and sometimes you just have to go for it.  I have been seeing lots of skwalas, especially in the middle river and there are always a few March browns and baetis here and there.  I seem to find the mayflies in the side channels more than the main river.  You may hear people talking about a Gray Drake (Amaletus) hatch, but this hatch is not going on yet.  I do see the occasional onr here and there, but I call these the early birds.  The real Drake hatch will have them lined up like sailboats all over the water when the conditions are right.  This does not happen until after mid April, but since we see some, the hatch is coming soon.  The river will have to bump from this heat and I do think the next couple days might be tough, but the cool average temperatures will have the river fishing well by next week as soon as the cool nights shutdown the 70 degree melt.  I have been using 3x in these big flows on my dry fly skwala patterns, but I have used 4x in certain mayfly scenarious that present themselves in certain areas.  I am not a fan of 4x on skwalas during these bigger flows because clearly the trout are not leader shy.  I have even been known to use 2x on dry flies when the flows get big.  After all, there are some browns and rainbows over 2 feet long in the Bitterroot and if you happen to hook one of these elusive monsters, 4x usually doesn’t cut it with all the snags and structure for them to try and run towards.  There are skwalas, nemouras, march browns, gray drakes, capnias, and baetis hatching.  This means that the temperatures are definitely reaching over 46 and that trout are starting to even hit in some heavier currents.  There are not many hitting in the faster water and most of the hits are in the classic slower banks and foam lines.  But the fact that I ahve seen trout hitting in areas I would not expect, the fishing is heating up and changing every week.  The rainbows and cutthroat are looking for spawning gravel in the main river and in the protected tributaries and trout migration is prolific.  I have found some nice fish in channels that were not even there a couple weeks ago.  Something that most fly fisherman don’t realize is that there is also a lot of aquatic insect migration in these flows now too.  I will let you know how the fishing is during the rising conditions and I am hoping that the trout will still look for the dries and during the changing flows.  I am not posting anything about worms or nymphing because that is just too basic to waist my time writing about.  If you want to use a nymph rig, I would suggest looking for a big turn in the river.  Floating and nymphing on the Bitterroot on these flows will usually require more time rigging for broken line on snags than fishing.  Good luck out there, honor the power of the river, and be safe!
Missoula Fly Fishing
April 1, 2012
Well, the rain and the mild overnight temperatures have created our first low elevation blow out.  I guided yesterday after a great day on Friday and it rained all night causing the first spring big bump in flows.  I almost got hit by 2 logs and there was a lot of debris on the water and in eddys.  There was a lot of sediment in the water that I could hear on the bottom of my driftboat.  I basically got skunked because my guys did not want to fish the worm and ugly rigs which was fine with me.  So now what?  Well you can put on your adventure cap and just go out and throw streamers, nymph rigs, and look for risers in the back waters and springs, but it’s not looking good for now.  Generally the fishing in springs is not happening in the early spring, but you never know what you might discover on an adventure with low expectations. 
          This can be an exciting spring fishing phenomenon.  The graphs on the stream flow gauges have shifted from their low water cfs lines to the bigger cfs numbers.  This will change the appearance of the graph compared to the graph from 2 days ago.  Since the y axis numbers change the gradient of the graph will change how to read it.  All the gauges are reading steep gradients and appearing to taper off today with the cooler weather and the surface run off from rain diminishing.  There is still some visibility in the river, so its not like you absolutely can’t catch trout.  You just have to get junky and see what happens.  The equivalent of junky is nymphs, worm rigs and streamers.  The cooling temperatures might stabilize the river by mid week and the clarity will improve.  I know there were more skwalas on the water than I saw on my good dry fly fishing on Friday, but I saw a lot of bugs yesterday!  Obviously the trout were not interested because they were busy just adjusting to the increase in flows.  When the river stabilizes then there will be some potentially good fishing, the fun spring fishing with bigger flows and more exploratory options.  The stonefly Hatches right now are skwalas, nemouras, and capnias.  The mayfly hatches are March Browns, Baetis, and the very beginning sitings of the Gray Drake (Amaletus).  They are hatching more in warmer waters of side channels or the lower river. 
WARNING: The Supply Ditch Diversion Dam between Woodside and Tucker is getting dangerous.  This dam sank a lot of boats last year so use extreme caution in a driftboat, otherwise just portage your rafts.
 
Bitterroot Fly Fishing Report Brown Trout 
Western Montana Fly Fishing Report
 
 
March 30, 2012
 So what is going on now with the water rising?  Did you miss the good fishing?  As I have stated below, the real skwala hatch has not even really kicked in.  With the teaser sunny days getting some skwalas out and then the cooler days, stalling the hatch.  I fished dries today and like most spring days it was tough earlier, but it actually fished pretty well.  But I will tell you I was cranking on the oars through the middle sections and the river is gaining some power.  You can see the clean rocks on the rivers edge as the water invades the exposed shorelines.  I will tell you that although the river has more water, I like these levels.  Do get out of the winter, low water mode this early is great.  We were catching some nice trout, including these browns, on dries.  Did I see a lot of skwalas?  Nope, only 3.  Nemouras?  Nope, just a handful all day.  March Browns?  2.  So why was the fishing decent?  I don’t know.  It was not spectacular, but playin the right spots and being patient with your drifts got some cool takes.  I will say this, most of the trout came out of foam lines, rock walls, and slower classic looking cutbank and log jams, but I saw something I did not expect.  I saw a couple hits today in heavier water.  Areas I have not expected or seen hits on in a while.  This means that since water temperatures are mid 40s and higher,  the trout are getting active.  The rainbows and cuts are thinking about migrated to spawn and the river is developing side channels and more diverse options for trout.  Their real estate just got bigger.  The cool thing today in weather is that a lot of the rain that we were supposed to receive was evaporating before it hit the ground, so the surface water influx will be tame compared to a 1 or 2 inch rainstorm, those wreak havoc! 
          I was using a personal skwala on about a 9 foot 3x, but if the wind howls, I will cut that back to 7 feet.   I did try a dropper in site specific areas so we were not hanging up in root balls all day.  Droppers are a catch 22.  You cant get tight to the structure with those droppers.  If you want to try it, put the dropper on 4x behind the 3x dry so that when you snag you should just break off the dropper and then just keep fishing until you want to tie on another dropper.  We did fine without them.  Things are getting excited with some flow.  Please make sure you know the river and know how to row, the Bitterroot gains noticeable power with even a 300-400 cfs increase.  Good Luck!  Tie up some creatures and go out and find that big boy!
  
March 27, 2012
Bitterroot Fly Fishing Report
 
So what the heck is going on?  Is the skwala hatch happening or not?  I have read all kinds of info on people talking about pods, great fishing, guaranteed big fish, and of course the typical “the fishing is heating up, make sure you come down and buy the latest hot skwala patterns.”  So here, once again, is the real report with some science and tidbits to help you fish the Bitterroot at this time of year. 
           The fishing is definitely getting better.  Are you missing the skwala hatch?  No you are not.  The Bitterroot gets a lot of pressure at this time of year with guides and anglers anxious to get to work or wet a line.  The water temperatures are definitely indicating that the fishing should be getting good.  On these days the water temperatures are pushing over 46 degrees and that is a great spring fishing temperature.  You can catch some nice trout and since the warmth is causing the stoneflies to become more active and thus more reports of dry fly fishing.  There really aren’t pods at this time of year, but that does not mean you can’t find area with multiple trout rising, they just do not have pod tendencies at this time of year on the Bitterroot.  As I have stated, the best skwala activity is in the Hamilton stretches and down below Bell Crossing.  The lower river below Stevinsville can be tough, especially for those who do not know the river.  The fishing at this time of year is very mercurial.  One day it can be sunny and the fishing can be decent, and the next day the weather can be nasty and the fishing can be great!  The nature of the beast. 
          The Bitterroot River changes from the Upper River to the Middle River, and on to the Lower River.  The different dynamics of the Bitterroot can even be found in one section.  The main river can have very minimal mayfly activity, while the braided channels and the springs can have a Blue Wing and March Brown hatch.  This is definitely going on right now.  I even saw and Amaletus (Gray Drake) down by the Florence Bridge.  Are they a lot of them? No, these are just the beginning soldiers, so there is some pretty awesome fishing coming around the corner.  I have found a few rising fish that are not interested in the skwala and are more apt to take the Nemoura or Mayfly pattern.  The lower river has some mayfly activity starting and the skwalas are out there, but there certainly are not 15 skwalas marching down a seam in a 5 minute window.  That will be happening someday soon when weather, and warmer night time temperatures cause the hatch to explode and all of  a sudden the majority of reports that read “The Skwala Hatch Is On,” will come true.  For now the fishing is not guaranteed incredible, but the beauty of the sport is that you never know when you are gonna hit that magic day.   The aquatic stones and mayflies are very active, so the stoneflies and mayflies may burst for real soon into bigger hatches that people are talking about now. 
          As for tactics, there are a few choices.  If you are a dry fly fisherman like me, then you can tie your own skwala, Nemoura, or March Brown pattern and throw them, But when the fishing is tough, dont be afraid to nymph some stonefly patterns sometimes in tandem with a copper john or pheasant tail.  When dry fly fishing the trout are still on slow banks and foam lines.  If you get a few driifts on a rising trout and they do not take your skwala, then you might need to downsize your pattern to a smaller bullet head or even parachute.  After all, when you see a trout rising more than once, the chances are that the trout is not feeding on skwalas in rythmn so think about your fly choice.  Like I said, its not like there are tons of skwalas on the water.  I have spent some time in some of the lower stretches and I have only seen a couple of skwalas.  I know there are more and more citings, especially on the upper stretches, but I ususally see the big push of bugs when the river temperatures get closer to 48 or 50 degrees.  I have heard of a couple large Browns that have been enticed on Streamers, even a 23 incher, but make no mistake about it, until the flows really pick up, the streamer fishing takes dedication and experimentation.
           The traffic is getting pretty hard to avoid, so use your best judgement on your trips and please be courteous to other fisherman.  What is going to happen to the river with this heat?  the river will bump, but the cold weather and mild temperatures in the forecast will make for some great windows to fish in the next couple weeks.  Good luck out there!  Remember, without concrete evidence or reports from reliable sources, make sure you know the difference between a real report and one that is trying to gloat or sell you flies!  Tight Lines
 
March 23, 2012
Bitterroot River Montana Fly Fishing Reports
 
 
 
 
 
March 21, 2012

Bitterroot River Fly Fishing Report, sight fishing tips Bitterroot River

          So today we had a snow storm in the morning, almost a white out and things looked pretty grim for those early spring fisherman.  The wind was down in the afternoon and conditions were not too bad.   The day never reached over 50 and there was probably some dry fly activity, but not much.  Cold weather has an adverse effect on the strength of a stonefly hatch.  The skwalas and nemoura stonefies have both anglers and trout wondering when they will be crawling on the water, but cool nights and cold mornings will cause the stones to go into a dormant phase.  The temperatures simply are not conducive for active behavior, wing growing, and mating.  I have seem cold weather do amazing dormancy magic to a full fledged salmon fly hatch.  Bugs everywhere the day before and a cold front and you have a hard time even finding one the next day.  Stoneflies can actually almost disappear and reappear with fluctuating temperatures.  Since the skwala hatch has not developed very much the adult stone will be hard to find.  So what does this mean if you are fishing.  Well if I was fishing I love throwing dries and dreaming of a large brown hitting even if I don’t get a hit in an hour.  But if you want to get after it you will have to go underneath and fend off the whitefish in order to find the trout.  The streamer fishing may produce some action, but it also might not be very productive.  The one thing in your favor is that the flows have bumped and that can cause trout to migrate and be territorial.  3x is fine on nymphs and skwala dries,  but 4x might be required in side channels and site specific circumstances.  If you are fishing streamers i would be confortable with 2x. 

          As for the photo above, I thought I would just give an example of how you can use tree shade to see into the water column on cloudy, stormy days.  If you look closely you can see a rock ledge in the middle of the river and with good polarized glasses you can observe into the water if you are ever trying to locate trout and potentially sight fish.  Look at the 2 windows I labelled and use them to your advantage on cloudy days, it will help you see trout and your fly.  The river flows have me very excited about the spring fishing!  Good Luck and I hope you enjoy my reports.

March 18, 2012

Spring Skwala Fly Fishing Bitterroot Report

WIth flows picking up, the spring fishing should be good!

   For those of you that actually view my reports, I am ready for a great season and I hope to provide you with the most honest and informative reports on our rivers.   This report will be detailed.  I am excited about this first report of the season because I will try and outline a spring fishing forecast that will help determine the conditions of the river, the status of the hatch, and the fishing (good or bad). 

River Conditions

     I have been fishing the middle and lower sections and I can tell you that as of last Thursday the fishing started to pick up, but is by no means good yet.  Especially because we have had rain and snow in the last few days and precipitation is also in the forecast for this week.  This is precisely what I like to see.  The doldrums of the skinny flows and anxious anglers bombarding the river is always a sore sight for me to see during early spring fishing months.  Now that there is a spike in the flows it does a few things to trout and also makes it more difficult for anglers to put pressure on the same holes.  In the winter, some of the big trout hang out in the slow, deep water runs that barely move.  When flows pick up it causes some of these trout to begin to migrate.  The cutthroat and rainbows actually get triggered into realizing that it is time to migrate and fine good spawning gravel.  The river is on the rise, but will stabilize and probably even drop depending on nightime temperatures.  The graphs that are important to look at are the flows at Darby and at Bell Crossing.  Whenever you look at these graphs, because the flows were so low, the influx can cause the graph to look steep even though they have only risen a few inches, so everything is relative.  The Darby gauge shows that the river went from 350 CFS to 600 CFS a couple days ago and is already dropping.  The middle river graph at Bell Crossing has done almost the same trend, rising from 550 CFS to almost 900 CFS and now it is stabilizing and dropping a little.  Flows on the upper river tend to be diurnal (meaning they go up and down in a 24 hour period) and the lower river rises and lowers according to temperatures and precipitation.  Now, if you look at the Missoula flows, there is a big difference.  I am upset that the USGS site is discontinued at Florence, because the difference between Bell Crossing and Florence is huge.  It is the dynamic of the difference between the lower river and the middle river!  The Missoula flows show a rise from 1200 CFS to 1800 CFS and starting to level off today.   Generally we like the river stable or dropping for the best fishing.  I do pretty well on a rising river sometimes, but not until the hatch has developed and matured.

Skwala Bitterroot Fishing Report

 

Fishing Report:  So let’s get down to business.  We all want to know if the skwala hatch is on.  Well, there are some skwalas out and some trout looking for them, but the real hatch has not begun.  The water temperatures are in the low to mid 40s and the fishing can get pretty good when the next warm up comes.  I will be posting river temps when I take them since the USGS temperatures are not posted on our gauges at this time of year.  I have floated a few days and the lower river below Stevinsville is tough for dry fly fishing and the skwalas are not really out.  The majority of sitings of skwalas are in the Hamilton stretches and down to below Bell Crossing.  After all to really understand the skwalas you must know that the hatch does not actually migrate upriver from the warmer lower sections like most stonefly hatches on freestone rivers.  The stretches in Hamilton and down river are more abundant in stoneflies because they have better Stonefly habitat.  Hamilton is known for being warmer than even Missoula and the hatch can develop earlier in these sections than other sections.  Remember stoneflies are photophilic (love the sun).  Skwalas, Nemouras, and Capnias all like warmth and that gets them into their nocturnal hatching modes.   The most productive dry fly water are slow moving banks and foam holes behind stumps and rocks.  They will not hit in the riffles until things warm up. Most fisherman and guides are being productive by trying to see if the skwala bite is on and throwing patterns like bullet heads, foam imitations, and stimulators to imitate the hatch.  When the flows pick up like they are you can get away with 3x, but 4x is the typical choice.  When flows really get big tippet size is not a factor and it is all presentation.  The dry fly activity on these cold days will not happen until the early-late afternoon hours.  When the temps were warm last week, Nemouras were actually starting to show themselves.  Even though I do not resort to the San Juan Worm technique unless I am in muddier or bigger flows, there are lots of fisherman and guides who pretty much use them as a staple and feel naked without one on.  They use them so much, if they did not they would feel like you do when you forget your cell phone.  If you are going to nymph fish, I would use a double bead stone or Pat Stone and a copper john, prince, pheasant tail, or another stonefly pattern and run it on a 4-6 foot system.   

HATCHES: Skwalas, Nemoura, Capnia, Midges, and in the future are Blue-winged Olives and Gray Drakes

The Bitterroot is dangerous and can problems for novice or even intermediate rowers! Please make sure you understand how to row before navigating the river, especially in the middle and upper stretches!

STREAMFLOWS 

UPPER RIVER AT DARBY 
BELL CROSSING 
MISSOULA

Bitterroot River Floating irrigation dams

Be Careful on the Supply Ditch Irrigation Dam between Woodside and Tucker, it was dangerous last year and with every addition of water it can change daily!