Skwala season is in full swing here in western Montana. March came in cold and remained pretty chilly, but there was solid fishing from mid-month on. Despite our overall cool temps we did have a couple of warm nights along with some rain that caused local rivers to jump up and turn off-color. A couple days on the Missouri was the cure and we battled some big browns and rianbows. The Bitterroot has stabilized for the most part, and fish are looking for dries again in the afternoon. The best part about this bump in flows is that it has shuffled up the fish and some of the biggest fish in the river are getable now. Those big old brown trout can't lay under log jams all day anymore and they're going to be looking for food. We still have almost a whole month of spring dry fly fishing left. I can't wait to see how it all plays out.
