Georgetown Lake Outing

Host: Mike Sportelli

Description: Lake is one of Montana’s premier blue ribbon fisheries offering nearly year round angling for trophy rainbow and brook trout and kokanee salmon. With an average depth of 16 feet, the lake is relatively shallow and much of the lake bottom is weedy providing excellent cover for the fish and habitat for the insect larva, aquatic insects and the fresh water shrimp that make up a large part of the trout’s diet.

Directions: Drive on I90 to Drummond, and then south on Hwy 1 past Phillipsburg. Stay on Hwy 1, pass Georgetown Lake Road and continue 2.5 miles south on Hwy 1 to Boat Launch.  If you get to Moose Marina, you have gone too far.

Campground: We will be staying at the Phillipsburg Bay  NFS campground, MT. www.Recreation.gov is the way to book your campsite. Low fees with your America the Beautiful Lifetime Senior card. 

Meetup Location: We will meet at the boat launch located 2.5 miles south of Georgetown Lake road each morning at 8:30am

Meals: TBD on location: Claude Kistler will host a BBQ dinner on Friday night!

Fly patterns Damsel fly adults and nymphs are the fly of the day. The Goddard caddis is sometimes successful as imitating the travelling such. Heavy leaders and tippet should be in your supplies as there’s a lot of weeds and the good size fish hide along them.

Another excellent group of flies are leech imitations. Marabou or rabbit strip leech patterns in brown, olive and black, are allowed to sink, then are very slowly inched along the bottom.

Insect hatches are very diverse and the trout rarely get selective. Most of the fish measure under 16 inches but they are willing feeders in this bouncing stream