Renegade Fly Fishing Outfitters

Rock Creek sits about twenty minutes east of Missoula and this outfitter treats it as a certified blue ribbon trout stream, a freestone gem of wadable riffles, boulder gardens and emerald pockets. What it sells there is half and full day walk and wade, with limited float options when flows allow. The hatch calendar it publishes runs blue winged olives, march browns and skwalas in spring, salmonfly and golden stone then caddis in early summer, pale morning duns, yellow sallies and terrestrials including ants, beetles and hoppers through high summer, and mahoganies, blue winged olives and streamers in autumn. It rates the creek best for walk and wade learning, match the hatch dry fly and light nymphing, for wild westslope cutthroat and brown trout, fished on barbless hooks and released.