We have great news for the Big Hole Montana snowpack update. Last week we received a tremendous storm that dumped over 3 feet of extremely wet snow into our valleys and high country. Currently our snow water equivalency is sitting at 102% of normal for this date in time. You may wonder what all of this information means. The measurement of snow water content is the amount of water in the snowpack. So when the snowpack melts in the spring we are left with the amount of water that seeps from the snowpack into our rivers. Currently, we are 102% in this category. We are rather thrilled about this current situation. We have 32 more days to increase the snowpack due to more storms that will drop snow into our high country drainages. The next 45 days are critical for us to accumulate more snow and not have the snowpack melt. The more water we can store in our mountains result in better water flows during the summer months.
The Big Hole River opens April 1st for the 2026 season. Don’t miss out on the early season fishing. The fish in the Big Hole haven’t seen imitation flies since last September! Book your Spring Special packages today. We are expecting great fishing in the April and May time period this season.
The below graph shows the % of median snow water currently in the Big Hole drainage. We are currently showing 102%. The green line is the 25 year average and the black line is the 2026 snowpack. In the next 30 days we have a chance to exceed the long term average snowpack, which is fantastic news!
