Ponds and Reservoir Fishing

With most of our rivers in run off this is the time of year that many Montanans turn to fishing stillwaters like lakes and reservoirs. If you mention fishing a pond to many anglers their minds conger up visions of Lilly pads and small stock fish, skinny and white. Here in Montana nothing could be further from the truth. The fertile waters of our reservoirs full of scuds, leeches and bug life grow some monster trout and fast.

Last week Bill Flick and I did our spring tour of some of the reservoirs we fish just to check things out and see how the trout wintered over. It is rough duty, but someone has to do it! Here are a few pictures of some of the fish. We are working on getting up the contact info in our reservoir section of our site and should have it up in a few days, so stay tuned.