Georgetown Lake Montana Fly Fishing

Georgetown Lake provides a truly unique western Montana fly fishing opportunity. If you like still water fly fishing, or just don’t mind it and can cast a lot of line you are in for a big treat. As summer heats up in July and August, so does the sight casting on Georgetown lake, fishing big dry flies to large cruising rainbows and brook trout.

Georgetown Lake is a high mountain lake in the Pintler Range just southeast of Blue Damsel Lodge. During the hot days of summer, big trout can be seen in the gin clear, shallow water around the cold emerging springs. Earlier in the season it is more nymphs, leeches and buggers for those big boys. But in July and August, expect to be casting big damsel fly or caddis patterns, or maybe callibaetis. Accurate, long casts are necessary but can be rewarded with truly huge fish; rainbows and brook trout in the 16”-26” range! And there are kokanee salmon in the lake also.