The Blackfoot River or as it’s sometimes called the Big Blackfoot to distinguish it from the Little Blackfoot in western Montana near Missoula is a truly special place. The Nez Perce of Idaho found this route as the way to the Upper Missouri Basin to hunt buffalo. The Nez Perce name for the Blackfoot is Cokahahalishkit which means river of the road to buffalo. A diverse and dynamic fishery fed by snowpack and springs with all of the main trout species present. Depending on the time of year, you have a shot at a
Blackfoot “Grand Slam” catching a rainbow, cutthroat, brown, brook, cut-bow.