Fly Fishing the Kootenai River

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Tim Linehan. Fly Fishing the Kootenai River

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Kootenai River (Northwest Montana)

Location: The Kootenai River is located in the extreme northwest corner of Montana. Three major airports serve this area—Spokane, Washington, about 3 hours away; Kalispell, Montana, about 2 hours; and Missoula, Montana, about 4 hours.

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fishery begins immediately below the dam, offering approximately 40 miles of fishable water to the Idaho border. Above the Libby Dam, Lake Koocanusa Reservoir extends over 100 miles into the Canadian Rockies.

This northwest corner of Montana is not typical Big Sky Country. Instead, it’s a place of dense coniferous forests, lush mountains, and river bottoms, and a place where the Pacific rainforest ecosystem crashes into the spine of the northern Rocky Mountains. The Kootenai Basin is unique, in that the river actually runs at only about 3,000 feet in elevation, making it one of the lowest riparian zones in the state. Weather and conditions throughout the winter are likely more mild than one might imagine.

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