Montana Fish Report

The fall trout stocking program began this week with private plants of big fish. The lake conditions and weather conditions are ideal with this week’s cooling trend. Half of the load are considered catchables and the other half was trophy-sized.  Shore fishing is expected to pick up as a result of the cooler weather and the best bait to use is Power Bait, Power Eggs, or worms. Trollers are still using shad type lures since the threadfin shad have already started their annual fall trek. Another system trollers use often is a threaded nightcrawler with a speck of Powerbait on the hook. Fall trout plants will end the week of Thanksgiving and will give anglers a great chance of catching trout all winter until the spring planting begins again around the middle of February. 1-800-286-0576