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Looka like I might have narrowed down a flyfish trip out to Missoula for next summer. Yes planning ahead. Fishing supposedly very good. Will be a guided float trip. Wife more than likely going to come along which I was glad to hear. So how is Missoula as a town? Food, shopping etc? We will be staying there in town too. I ask more for my wife than for myself. Thx
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Lots of restaurants, small city, lots of shopping. Lots of liberals. Some say Missoula has two seasons.....winter and road construction. MTG
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I had the best lamb curry ever at an Irish Pub in Missoula, go figure. Did a guided Steelhead trip in Salmon, Id. w/ the wife a few years back and she loved it and caught a huge native Steelie. We now consider guided float trips mandatory.
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I had the best lamb curry ever at an Irish Pub in Missoula, go figure. Did a guided Steelhead trip in Salmon, Id. w/ the wife a few years back and she loved it and caught a huge native Steelie. We now consider guided float trips mandatory.
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I'd try a little farther north, a trip down the North fork of the Flathead from Polebridge would be a trip of a life time. Do a little research. The Clarkfork around Missoula gets hammered. The Clark fork around Thompson falls is great fishing, but a mild boat ride on flat water but killer fishing. Missoula as a town is liberal collage town full of homeless and stinky hippies. " Hint "
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Notorious P I G is a badass barbecue joint. As a town though, it sucks ass.
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Missoula isn't really Montana and the Clarks Fork is an ok trout river.
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Shopping and restaurants in Missoula should be fine for your purposes. Mustard Seed for Chinese. Clarks Fork especially west of Missoula can be very good. East of Missoula it is better than folks think..hard to fish but can be surprisingly good.If you get as far down as Warm Springs there are some really nice Browns in there.....
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Missoula is great! And only 45 minutes from Montana.
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We spent a week on the Flathead River between Missoula and Plains a year ago. Beautiful area, had a great time. Didn't do much fishing, but did enjoy ourselves.
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Small city compared to what, seattle, spokane? Storming Norman pretty much summed it up. Stay off Reserve from 7a.m to 7p.m the traffic will be bumper to bumper from one end of town to the other. Kalispell these days isnt much better.
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Missoula is a college town. That means the eating is usually pretty darn good downtown, and reasonably priced.
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Really depends on what rivers you are fishing, but I will second the Clark Fork can be a waste, or a real sleeper. I used to routinely fish (but not eat) between Butte and Missoula, depending on where I would camp. Some of it was a complete skunk, other times, I couldn't keep the line slack, usually in spots that don't look fishy at all. But that was before a plague of guides and amenity migrants descended upon our Treasure State.
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For about four years, I had to spend two to four days in Missoula a couple of times each year. I don't miss it.
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We are headed to CdA 7/8, not looking forward going through Missoula on 93 to I-90 but things are pretty cool before and after the "BIG CITY". I am having trouble finding a place in the mountain west that I don't like.
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Much better trout fishing in MT than the Clark fork. Live in Thompson / trout creek area and wouldn’t travel to fish it. Not much for floating. More of a lake than river and better bass and pike fishing than trout on the Clark fork.
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Not a fan of Missoula. Don’t consider it Montana. Kalispell is slightly better but getting crowded as well
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Well dang. Doesn't sound very positive
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