This is a really simple rule of thumb for fishing out of the boat. Watch this video and you’ll be a step ahead when you join us on the Kootenai River this summer. Enjoy!
Kootenai River Report | May 31 – June 6
River Flow: 17,000 cfs 8-12 foot visibility 51 degrees Inflow from Lake Koocanusa: 31,200 cfs Hatches: Grannom Caddis, Little Blue Quills, Blue Wing Olives, Silver Stripe Caddis, Little Olive Stone, some flights of Carpenter Ants, assorted stoneflies coming into Kootenai from Fisher River. Effective Patterns: X-Caddis, Adams, Parachute Adams, Royal Wulff, Red Quill, Purple Haze, Beadhead Prince, Copper johns, Wooly …
5 Tips for Releasing Fish
From KeepEmWet Fishing Test
Learning The Reach Cast (Mend) | Kootenai Angler
Don’t over mend! So many inexperienced anglers spend most of their drift trying to mend their line rather than fishing. Learn this simple aerial mend technique and you’ll improve your presentation, and ultimately catch more fish! This can be particularly helpful when dry fly fishing on the Kootenai river.
The Blood Knot – The Fast and Easy Way
From the Fly Fishing Blog – Gink and Gasoline Do blood knots eat up 5, 10 minutes on the river? Have you ever wondered if there is a fast and easy way to tie a blood knot. This video might change your life! So fast, so easy, incredibly helpful!
Kootenai River Fishing Report – April 7-15, 2017
River Flow: 24,200 cfs 8-12 foot visibility above the Fisher River, 3 feet visibility below the Fisher River. Fisher Infow 2000 kcfs Inflow from Lake Koocanusa: 9.2 kcfs Hatches: Midges and Little Blue Quills, Silver Stripe Caddis Effective Patterns: Bead-head prince, Wooly Bugger, Adams, Parachute Adams Guide report: We are not guiding on the river currently with the extreme high flows and …
Kootenai River Drone Footage | Kootenai Angler
Downstream Series by Byron Sanderson Get a bird’s eye view of our beautiful Kootenai River just outside of Libby, Montana. These videos from Byron Sanderson show a few stretches of water that we fish. The Kootenai is Montana’s biggest tailwater and it stretches from Lake Koocanusa at the Canadian border all the way through the Idaho panhandle and back into British …
Hot Rainbow on the Kootenai River | Kootenai Angler
This fish Cory Luoma from Fly Out Media hooked this past September on the Kootenai River was hot hot hot. He took 3 or 4 strong runs before we were able to settle her down for the net. This is a prime example of the larger class rainbows that we have on the Kootenai River.
Kootenai Angler – March Update
“March is a green muddy month down below, some folks like it, FARMERS mostly.,” said Bear Claw Chris Lapp in a famous line from the movie, Jeremiah Johnson. It was the movie that I saw in the 70’s that was most instrumental in planting that westward migration seed in me. March is a month on the Kootenai that can have some decent fishing …
Little Blue Quill Hatch | Kootenai River, Montana
Here on the Kootenai River, we see our first significant hatches in March and April. The water is cold, the rainbow trout are spawning in the main river, and you can expect some discoloration in the water as a result of runoff from tributaries entering the Kootenai River below the dam. On sunny days, we do see that dry fly …