Species · Smallmouth Bass · MT
Smallmouth Bass in Montana
51 waters with smallmouth bass, the lures working now, and recent stocking.
Montana waters with smallmouth bass
- Bighorn Riverlive gauge
- Marias Riverlive gauge
- Milk Riverlive gauge
- Tongue River Reservoirlive gauge
- Arapooish Pond
- Battle Creek
- Bearpaw Lake
- Beaver Creek
- Burnside Reservoir
- Capeneys Lake
- Castle Rock Lake
- Coal Creek
- Crow Coulee
- Dean Lake
- Faber Reservoir
- Fort Peck Lake
- Frenchman Creek
- Fresno Reservoir
- Gartside Reservoir
- Gaskill Reservoir
- Hanson Reservoir
- Helena Valley Regulating Reservoir
- Hollecker Lake
- Homestead Lake
- Horseshoe Lake
- Johnson Lake
- Josephine Lake
- Kicking Horse Reservoir
- Krieder Reservoir
- Kuester Lake
- Lake Baker
- Lake Elmo
- Loon Lake
- Mallard Pond
- Musselshell River
- Noxon Rapids Reservoir
- Poker Jim Reservoir
- Rattlesnake Reservoir
- Rednose Reservoir
- Red Rock Reservoir Number One
- Rock Creek
- Rush Hall Reservoir
- Sagebrush Reservoir
- Silvertip Reservoir
- South Fork Reservoir
- South Sandstone Reservoir
- Spotted Eagle Lake
- Spring Creek
- Warm Spring Creek
- West Fork Poplar River
- Wolf Creek
What's working now
Current conditions on Bighorn River, a representative Montana water. Every lake fishes its own conditions — open one for its live read.
No exact temperature rule — widened by temperature.
- Topwaterbone
temp n/a, clarity n/a, summer → walked over deep rock at dawn bone topwater
Why we say this: In-Fisherman summer smallmouth topwater
Recent smallmouth bass stocking in Montana
- Smallmouth Bass · 286 · 13.31May 7, 2020
- Smallmouth Bass · 250 · 13.32May 7, 2020
- Smallmouth Bass · 50 · 12.950000000000001May 16, 2019
- Smallmouth Bass · 150 · 12.950000000000001May 16, 2019
- Smallmouth Bass · 72 · 7.25Aug 17, 2018
- Smallmouth Bass · 258 · 4.4299999999999997Aug 17, 2018
- Smallmouth Bass · 2,462 · 2.23Aug 14, 2018
- Smallmouth Bass · 1,000 · 2.1899999999999999Aug 9, 2018
- Smallmouth Bass · 2,000 · 2.23Aug 3, 2018
- Smallmouth Bass · 1,000 · 2.1899999999999999Aug 3, 2018
- Smallmouth Bass · 4,000 · 2.1899999999999999Aug 3, 2018
- Smallmouth Bass · 1,000 · 2.1899999999999999Aug 3, 2018
- Smallmouth Bass · 3,000 · 2.23Aug 3, 2018
- Smallmouth Bass · 1,055 · 2.3300000000000001Aug 2, 2018
- Smallmouth Bass · 3,500 · 2.75Aug 18, 2017
- Smallmouth Bass · 3,500 · 2.8100000000000001Aug 25, 2016
- Smallmouth Bass · 3,500 · 2.5Jul 29, 2015
- Smallmouth Bass · 4,000 · 2.4900000000000002Sep 2, 2014
- Smallmouth Bass · 1,500 · 2.5Sep 2, 2014
- Smallmouth Bass · 3,000 · 2Jul 7, 2014