Quote Originally Posted by sagefisher View Post
Byron. That area is totally different from where I fish the Missouri. They must have been near the headwaters of the Missouri. I fish it from Holter Dam (Craig or Wolf Creek, MT) down to Cascade, MT. That is a 28 mile tailwater caused by the Holter Dam. That area does allow some wading but you are rather restricted to just a few areas. However, many people just wade fish then drive to the next area. The best way to fish it is to float the river and it is an easy river to float. Many people use pontoon boatsm mainly as taxis to get to the next gravel bar. I once saw one guy in a float tube but for safety reasons that was really wrong. Where ever you fish it the Missouri can produce some great fish. Larry ---sagefisher---
I agree that it is best fished with a boat, however, there are lots of places below Holter that are readily accessed without one. For a number of years before I had a boat, I fished one particular 1/2 mile section of the Missouri for a solid week or more, staying in the back of my truck right along the river, and wade fishing. The fishing was so good that I rarely went elsewhere on the river to fish. It is that good.

Speaking of big fish, I also used to fish there after dark. One night, a guy I often fished there with caught a 36" brown on a dry fly, that was measured by the Fish and Game Warden, who happened to come by at the time. Early in the summer, when the caddis are hatching in epic numbers, we often had a dozen or more big fish feeding within a few feet from us right near the shore, and we routinely caught fish of 20" or longer (tape measured).