Public Spring Creek in the Gallatin Valley!
Lower Madison River, BRRRRRRRRR!
People always want to know how cold it is in Montana in the middle of the winter and I always tell them about the rivers filling with slush ice and people staying indoors for days if not weeks on end. Last week we saw one of the artic cold snaps that visit the area a few times each year. Our high temps last week were well below zero most days and at night we saw temperatures that ranged from -47 below zero in West Yellowstone to -26 here in Bozeman. After a week of this cold weather there is little in the way of fishable water right now but we are fortunate to have a couple of psuedo tailwaters in the area and numerous spring creeks that keep open water no matter how cold it gets. Yesterday a couple of my good friends headed out with the dogs to check out the ice flows and maybe wet a line in one of the spring creeks that has public access. The wind was blowing a bit and none of us could muster up the motivation to dawn our waders and rig a rod to fish the creek. We finally jumped back in the truck and spent the afternoon galavanting around the Valley with a twelve pack of beer looking for elk and deer on some of the backroads around the valley.
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