Monday
Nov162009
Mighty Mo's trout are up - No word on the Pesca Blanca count
Monday, November 16, 2009 at 12:00AM 
For the second consecutive year, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife & Parks fisheries survey on the Missouri found that the number of large rainbow and brown trout between Holter Dam and Cascade are up.
State biologists this fall found 3,458 rainbow trout longer than 10 inches near Craig. The long-term average of rainbows that size for that section is 2,917.
"The rainbows in the Craig section were remarkably high quality," said Grant Grisak, FWP fisheries biologist. "About 85 percent of the rainbows were 15 inches and larger, and fish in the 18-inch length group alone represented 24 percent of the total population."
The largest rainbow sampled was 4.8 pounds.
LINK (Via: The Great Falls Tribune)
Reader Comments (2)
The Mo has it going on! The good streamflows of the last two seasons has produced some outrageously healthy fish in the river, lots and lots of fat and frisky 18-22 inch bows and browns. The '10 season should be ridiculously good as this age class of fish matures and gets even bigger.
Come join us for a Montana river outing, we'll show you what the Missouri is all about.
-garrett
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