freestone river · trout · whitefish
Bitterroot River (Darby)
Live conditions for Bitterroot River (Darby): the gauge, the water temperature, the trend, and what the water is doing today — read the way a guide reads it.
Right now
240cfs→ lowfishable
Inside the wade band, stable low · -10.8% over the last 6 hours.
Water temp—
Stage1.74 ft
Engine callGO 240 cfs in the wade band
The water
Bitterroot River (Darby) is a freestone river in Big Sky, Montana, fished for trout, whitefish — cutthroat, rainbow, brown, bull, brook. On free-flowing water the trajectory is the story: falling and clearing after a bump is the window, rising water pushes fish to the banks and brings colour.
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Wade and float bands in cfs, the safety notes and the 14-day trend are on the signed-in river page.
Access
- Forest Cooper Fishing Access Sitewalk in
- Hannon Memorial Fishing Access Siteramp
- Darby Bridge (Hwy 93)bridge
- Wally Crawford Fishing Access Siteramp
- Bitterroot River bank/bridge access (Old Darby Rd corridor)bridge
- C Ben White Memorial Fishing Accesswalk in
- West Fork Boating Sitewalk in
- Applebury Boating Sitewalk in
Directions to the put-in or wade access ride on every briefing.
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