JeffRaines
Smolt
Hoping I can get some guidance on this!
I have experience fishing Montana - albeit during the summer months but never in spring... in fact, I've never fished the spring season at all. I'm going to change that this year! Early April my wife is taking the kids and going back home for a week to visit with her family and friends... and that leaves me to take some days off and go wet a line/camp for a few days.
My knee-jerk was to hit Montana. I know some of the waters and areas... however, for anyone who's fished the Western District during the spring, you know the amount of open water throughout the entire district is a pretty short list. 8-9 hours is probably well pushing my limit driving somewhere solo, which I will be... so that kinda knocks out going further east.
I have zero experience with Idaho, but from my(admittedly limited) understanding there's a lot more water that's open during that timeframe.
Driving over from Washington, I'm gonna be driving right through Idaho anyway.
My question is - from anyone who's fished both during the spring, in my position which would you pick? I'm not asking for specific waters/holes/rocks or anything of the sort. Is it worth going all the way to Montana even with the limited water that's available... or go as far as Idaho and set up shop? When I say Northern Idaho, I'm thinking within an hour or so of 90 in both directions.
One thing I will mention(and is a driving factor) is that I GREATLY PREFER smaller water to big water. You know as well as I do, most of the water in the Western District of Montana that's open is big water. Once you take the big water out of the equation, you're left with an even smaller handful of options.
Thanks in advance.
I have experience fishing Montana - albeit during the summer months but never in spring... in fact, I've never fished the spring season at all. I'm going to change that this year! Early April my wife is taking the kids and going back home for a week to visit with her family and friends... and that leaves me to take some days off and go wet a line/camp for a few days.
My knee-jerk was to hit Montana. I know some of the waters and areas... however, for anyone who's fished the Western District during the spring, you know the amount of open water throughout the entire district is a pretty short list. 8-9 hours is probably well pushing my limit driving somewhere solo, which I will be... so that kinda knocks out going further east.
I have zero experience with Idaho, but from my(admittedly limited) understanding there's a lot more water that's open during that timeframe.
Driving over from Washington, I'm gonna be driving right through Idaho anyway.
My question is - from anyone who's fished both during the spring, in my position which would you pick? I'm not asking for specific waters/holes/rocks or anything of the sort. Is it worth going all the way to Montana even with the limited water that's available... or go as far as Idaho and set up shop? When I say Northern Idaho, I'm thinking within an hour or so of 90 in both directions.
One thing I will mention(and is a driving factor) is that I GREATLY PREFER smaller water to big water. You know as well as I do, most of the water in the Western District of Montana that's open is big water. Once you take the big water out of the equation, you're left with an even smaller handful of options.
Thanks in advance.