Following weeks of mild winter with above average temps and below average participation Mother Nature finally served up a good helping of actual winter weather starting with a winter storm over the weekend and followed by the coldest weather we’ve seen in a long time. We won’t see positive digits until Saturday so it’s a good solid week of sub-zero temps and while the storm definitely didn’t produce an excess of precipitation, it did bring our snowpack back up into the 90 – 109 % range across much of the region vastly improving the 21 season outlook for the time being.

Forget fishing this week unless you’re doing it through the ice. We’re currently sitting at about eight below with the coldest air yet to come. High of -2 today and tomorrow and the real cold snap coming Wednesday night into Thursday with lows of -22 and a high of -10 on Thursday.

The icy grip begins to loosen over the weekend and it looks like we’ll be back into the low to mid 30’s early next week.

We’ve opted to remain closed this week but will be back on our normal schedule next week.

If you love winter sports now is your time. If you’ve been waiting for ice to form on Holter Lake now is your time. Let’s hope the outlook for this month continues to hold true with lower than average temps and above average precipitation as we start to prepare for the spring season. Hopefully the snow continues to fall in the mountains building great flows for the season and as long as we’re thinking wishfully, it would be great to see a return to mild weather here at the lower elevations around the first of March while snow and cold persist in the high country which would give us the best of both worlds with a great head start on the spring season and the slow melt we need for good flows all season long.

It’s definitely too early to predict what we’ll see for weather and for water this spring but as we always say this time of year; there will be water, there will be weather and there will be trout. How much water we don’t know, what kind of weather remains to be seen but you can rest assured that regardless of what’s coming, we’ll soon be on the water chasing bobbers, stripping streamers, hunting heads and doing what we do best which is putting you on fish.

Winter Special in effect, now through April 18th. $450 Full Day Guide Trips for one or two anglers which is the going rate for spring special trips on the MO.
What is NOT the going rate is $550 for a full day on the water AND not one, but TWO nights of premium lodging. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, can touch this deal so do yourself a favor and book your trip today. Space is limited!

We’ll be in and out this week, making sure everything is weathering the cold and tending to emails and voice mails so leave us a message. We will get back to you ASAP.