Montana Info

n7bsn wrote:
There are a couple of Golf courses up in the Flathead lake area that are well thought of.

Fishing, I could talk about fishing there years ago, but with whirling disease, over fishing and closure of access by "new wealth" from out of state my knowledge is worthless today.

If you are interested in Dinosaurs there is the Montana Dinosaur Trail.

The Charles Russel Museum of Cowboy Art in Great Falls.

Gates of the Mountains near Helena

The State Museum in Helena

The Montana Auto Museum in Deer Lodge

Whirling disease is on steep decline at worst and may be virtually eradicated. The trout have rebounded and you will find Montana has some of the highest density of trout anywhere in the world. Things like over 5,000 trout per mile in the Madison, Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. The Beaverhead is said to have on average a 20" trout every three feet. On a good day you can easily land over 100 or more trout with an average length of 14" in the Big Horn River tailwater below Yellowtail dam. The Flathead and Swan rivers will thrill anglers near Glacier Park and if you are adventurous try the lakes of the Blackfoot Indian reservation (Duck lake is the famous one, there are others just as good). Best idea is to get a reservation guide, pay them well and you may just get that 10 pounder for the mantle. Montana has by far some of the best stream access laws in the country. All navigable waterways (and that is given a very broad interpretation) are subject to the stream access law which gives public access to the stream and banks up to the high water mark. This access cannot be denied if accessed legally. Legal access to the streambed can be made at any public road crossing and at the hundreds of fishing accesses that are provided by private land owners through a state grant and tax program. Access to Montana's fantastic trout rivers and streams cannot be restricted or denied by "New Wealth" or Old Wealth or the poor old farmer with a pasture bisected by the stream. Catch and release is the norm and there are many rules restricting catch kills. There is no shortage of fish or access to them in Montana.