Wifey Weekend

I don't know what scree is but the reservoir is not where the fish are.  The South Fork of the Flathead flows north and feeds into the reservior from deep in the Flathead National forest; that's where you fish.  You drive the length of the reservoir on a dirt road that hugs the reservoir shoreline.  Its a rough road and thick with brambles (your car will get scratched and your muffler will take some hits even on an SUV), and the reservoir is long with lots of fingers so it takes three or so hours to traverse its 50 mile length.  But when you finally get above the reservoir to where the river is, mother of god, you are in trout heaven.  The river is wide in spots with vast gravel bars and ample room to cast, totally wadable, and every place that the river turns there are deep, deep cuts along the outside edge of the turn with cliffs above them.  Looking down from the cliffs is where you see the fish suspended in the water, darting everywhere, feeding both deep and on the surface. Like a dream (if you're a trout bum).  Never saw anything like it in the east or even elsewhere in the more popular streams of the west.  And as noted above, they rarely see artificial flies and it is a low-nutrient stream so they attack at the sight of sizeable food.  Its is not a place where you need to be an expert.  I had my sons with me and neither has fly fished more than a few times and both caught 20-30 fish a day (10" - 18").  The only catch is that to fish the canyon areas you have to climb down about 50-75 feet.  But I had the advantage of being old, so I didn't need to climb the whole way, just fell most of the way and ended up with raspberries on my ass.  Worth it.  The dirt road is aclled East Side Road (NF 38).  Take it south from Highway 2 at Martin City just south of the border of Glacier Nat'l Park.  Bring bear spray.  We saw a grizzly and cubs about a hundred yards upstream from us one evening.