Conditions At-a-Glance - Lower Blackfoot (Missoula/Bonner): ~5000 CFS, off-color from a Monture Creek mud push - Upper Blackfoot (Helmville): ~1000 CFS, high for that stretch - Water temperature: ~52F (still cool) - Visibility: poor to fair, improving as flows level off - Last on-river updates: Kingfisher 5/11, Grizzly Hackle 5/10, Blackfoot River Outfitters 5/8

Snowmelt v3 has the entire Missoula-area system high and off-color.

Spring runoff is here. All four rivers are running high, off-color, and pushy with cold water in the mid-40s to low 50s.

The Missoula-area rivers are easing into late spring.

Spring is settling in on the four Missoula-area rivers. Flows have come off the early-week peak and are starting to drop and clear, but every river is still running high.

Western Montana is in classic late-April spring transition: high but generally fishable flows, water temps still cold (41-48F), and the dry-fly window opening up day-by-day on the Bitterroot, Clark Fork, and Rock Creek behind Skwalas, March Browns, and BWOs.

The Blackfoot has been the steady freestone option this past week as flows ease off recent bumps and clarity slowly improves.

The Blackfoot has been the toughest of the three this past week.