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Georgetown Lake Description Just the Facts: Georgetown Lake is Montana’s premier flatwater fishery. Rimmed by the Pintler Mountains, it’s also among the state’s most beautiful. But what attracts us are rainbow trout in the 16"- 26" range. Yes, we said 26" rainbows. As if these giant rainbows weren’t enough – we catch numbers of brook trout over 16” and several every year exceeding 20”! You don’t need to travel to Labrador to see fish like this – they live here - and plenty of them. The special regulations imposed now over a decade ago, continue to pay huge dividends. Much of the lake shore is closed to fishing before July 1st to maximize rainbows’ opportunity to grow well into maturity and you must return all brookies to the water immediately. As the water warms in June, these leviathans fresh off the spawn gorge themselves on damsel fly nymphs, leaches, crane fly larva, scuds and midge pupa. We typically pitch small buggers and leaches to single cruisers and across spring holes through the month. Later in July continuing on into September we rarely fish a nymph or streamer. We’re sight fishing to them in just inches to a few feet of water. If you’re a saltwater angler, it will remind you of polling the flats scanning for bones, but instead of them rooting out crabs they are toilet bowling dries on the surface. Blanketing damsel fly hatches, early morning callibaetis, gulping midge clusters and the giant olive sedge skating across the water just before dark are the occurrences you don’t want to miss! There is nothing else quite like it in Montana. Trips to Georgetown Lake are timing sensitive so when your guide recommends you take a day to fish there – don’t make a mistake – take them up on it.. Typical catch – This is a big fish trip with real opportunities to catch rainbows over 2' long. In addition, the lake has some large brookies and kokanee salmon. Total area of drainage – 2,818 acres. Elevation – 6,337 feet. Travel distances from Missoula – 1½ hours, but only about 10 minutes from Philipsburg, where our fly shop is located. Type of trips available – Float fishing. Bank-side accommodations – Plenty of options here. Philipsburg and the area around Georgetown have cabin and house rentals, campgrounds, B&Bs and motels. Ask us for details. Primary style of fishing – Far and fine. We’ll be casting 50'+ plus to cruising fish. If you’ve bonefished before, you get the picture. |
BRO's "Top Five" patterns:Blue Damsel dries #10 Olive Parachute Caddis #10 Leach patterns in brown, black and olive #8 Purple Haze #18-14 Midges - Olive or Black parachutes #18 |
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