Grab your sunscreen, pack the cooler, and leave your excuses at the dock—the water is calling, and the fish are officially biting! Whether you’re hunting for slab crappie, chasing monster pike, or trying to trick a finicky trout, Northwest Montana is serving up a buffet this week. Rivers are clearing up, lakes are heating up, and we’ve got the exact recipe to help you bend some graphite.
Here’s the latest report from Chancy’s Fish Camp on June 24, 2026:
Dickey lake
Salmon bite still good trolling or jigging. Try 50′ water near the bottom. Orange or green swedish pimples and JT Tackle Taildraggers been working well. Trolling try smaller dodgers with micro hoochies or wedding ring spinners tipped with maggots and corn.
Flathead River & Forks
Starting to come down a bit and green up well. Fly fishing starting to pick up. Try stimulates and small hopper patterns . Spinners try panther martins and roostertails.
Flathead River sloughs
Pike action has been good in Fennon and Church big swimbaits and jerkbaits. Bass action has been productive also try chatterbaits and jigs. Crappie fish good late evenings along weed edges.
Blanchard lake
Bass action has been with top water or senkos. Crappie have been very good wirh small crappie candy minnows. Few smaller pike on spinnerbaits.
Flathead lake (south end)
Elmo and Big Arm been productive for nice perch, smallmouth and lake trout. Try around Wildhorse for smallmouth with swim baits. Lake trout around cedar and shelter island trolling plugs near bottom.
Lake Mary Ronan
Salmon bite still doing well try 25 to 30′ water.
Pimples and JT Tackle in orange and pink have been good. Try small craws or gitzits for perch they have been slow. Pike are showing up so be sure to keep them if you catch them.
McGregor lake
Lake trout jigging has been good, 80 to 120′ water Zimmer Rattle Dzastors in white or green or small tube jigs. Smallmoth action been good drop shooting or chatterbaits. Troll flickershad along shore lines for bass and rainbows.
Crystal lake
Salmon bite and perch has been good.
Smith lake
Good pike action with topwater or spinnerbaits few nice perch
Lower Stillwater
Perch action good try west end in deeper weeds.
Lots smaller pike cast spoons or jerkbaits.
Hungry Horse Reservoir
Cutthroat action good trolling small gold spoons or spinners. Try near tributary creeks. Troll large plugs for Bulls or big spoons.
Lake five
Perch bite been good 20 to 30′ water small jigging spoons, lots small salmon also. Troll plugs for rainbows.
Noxon Reservoir
Bass acrion been good for large and smallmouth. Walleye action is starting to pick up on main lake. Look in 20 to 30′ try swimbaits jigging or bottom bouncer crawlers.
Sylvia lake
Grayling action and Cutthroat been good, try small spinners or small flys in black or green.
Hubbart Reservoir
Smallmouth bite been very good. Try small tube jigs or jerkbaits. Few nice rainbows also, water level is up good.
Bitteroot lake
Salmon bite still going well, trolling been most productive along the east shore 50 to 70′ water. Northwest boat launch has been best for launching.
Middle Thompson/lower Thompson
Salmon bite still been slow, nice perch and pike are bitting well. Lower been good on bass large and smallmouth.
Be sure to vote the Fish Camp for best of the Flathead Fishing shop! Tight lines and good Fishing!!
Check out some cool fishing pictures the Chancy’s Fish Camp page posted HERE.
