Silver Bow Creek is a freestone river in Montana, listed as Special-regulation trout water by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.
2 USGS gauges on the water report flow. 1 guide nearby are listed here.
Silver Bow Creek is a freestone river in Montana. Montana has 2 waters named Silver Bow Creek in the USGS Geographic Names Information System; this page is the stream whose mouth is in Deer Lodge County, the one the agency list names.
Pick one of its USGS gauges and hear from us when the flow moves into or out of its usual range for the date, or crosses a flow you set. We check the public USGS reading every 2 hours and email only when it crosses, at most once every 6 hours. Flow alone is not a fishing forecast or a safety call.
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Start from the agency's public access map. Nothing on this page grants or implies access: check the agency map, posted signs and landowner permission before you fish.
Nothing on this page grants or implies access.
Gauges, shops and guides within 40 miles
Map of Silver Bow Creek: gauges, shops and guides
Map of Silver Bow Creek with 2 USGS gauges.
Restrooms within 2 miles of Silver Bow Creek in a straight line, nearest first, with what anglers found when they went. The map says a restroom is there, not whether it is clean or open today.
Map of 5 restrooms near Silver Bow Creek
Skip the map; every place is in the list belowMap of 5 restrooms near Silver Bow Creek, numbered as in the list, with the water’s point marked.
Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.
Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map
Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.
Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map
At a highway rest area · Montana Department of Transportation
Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.
Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map
Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.
Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map
Not rated yet — be the first to tell other anglers if it's clean.
Mapped on OpenStreetMap · see or fix it on the map
Restroom locations and map details: © OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License, read Oct 24, 2026. Ratings, answers and photos are members' own; who shared them is never shown, and every photo is reviewed before it appears. Visits older than 18 months no longer count. Distances are straight-line miles, not driving. Nothing here grants access to private land. Community guidelines.
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Warm Springs CreekThe Big Hole River near Twin Bridges, Montana, in October. Photo: Mike Cline, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Not Warm Springs Creek.
Montana · about 7 mi
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Little Blackfoot RiverRock Creek on the Missoula Ranger District, Lolo National Forest. Photo: USDA Forest Service, Northern Region, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Not Little Blackfoot River.
Montana · about 23 mi
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Georgetown LakeEnnis Lake, Montana, in March, with the Madison Range beyond. Photo: Gloria Cabada-Leman, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr Not Georgetown Lake.
Montana · about 24 mi
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Storm LakeHenrys Lake from Henrys Lake State Park, Idaho. Photo: James Postema, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Storm Lake.
Montana · about 24 mi
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Flint CreekThe lower Blackfoot River east of Missoula. Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Not Flint Creek.
Montana · about 29 mi
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Wise RiverThe Jefferson River near Waterloo, Montana, in January. Photo: Mike Cline, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Wise River.
Montana · about 38 mi
Seasons, limits, special regulations and closures for each reach are on the agency pages below. Read them before you go.
Each comes from the agency's own published list; where the list names a reach it is quoted. A designation applies to the listed reach, not necessarily the whole water. Listed in the finder under trout.
On the District Exceptions to Standard Regulations (trout / gear rules) list (Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, read 2026-11-05). All waters with this designation
Listings marked Unclaimed are built from open map records and the business's own website: confirm licensing, rates, dates and hours directly.
No shop nearby yet.
What 1 nearby guide website mention: what guides advertise, not a survey or a promise of what you will catch.
Named on 1 nearby guide website
5 hatches charted for the region, not measured on this water. From Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.
Mother's Day caddis (Grannom) (May) · Salmonfly (May to June) · Salmonfly (May to July) · Salmonfly (July) · Trico (August to September)
None of our destination hubs is within 40 miles in a straight line. The trip planner builds a trip around the water itself: the guides and shops listed within 40 miles of it, its gauges and its nearest towns and airports.
No hub within 40 miles
A wade-fishing checklist for big western trout rivers: a 9 ft 5–6 weight outfit, nymph, dry and streamer setups, waders, boots and a wading staff, with estimated prices by tier and where to buy.
9′ rod, 5–6 weight, floating line · Rainbow and brown trout, whitefish
Open the checklistSeams, shelves and soft water, shown on real rivers.
Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.
Not sponsored All videos on reading water
Indicator rigs, depth and detecting the take.
Public YouTube videos from established channels, chosen by us to support this page. Not sponsored; the creators are not affiliated with Legendary Fly Gear.
Not sponsored All videos on nymphing
Trip stories anglers chose to share publicly and tagged with Silver Bow Creek.
No stories from here yet.
Not a statement of access, fish presence or conditions.
A water page organises discovery. It does not assert public access, legal access, current fish presence, guide availability or fishing conditions.
Flows, gauge statistics and flood stages come from USGS and the National Weather Service when the page is shown. Regulations, stocking, species and season statements link to the agency that publishes them; this page copies only the species names and the quoted sentences. Guide and shop listings come from the Legendary directories. Position: the USGS gauge Silver Bow Creek at Warm Springs MT. Water type is our own classification.
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Warm Springs CreekThe Big Hole River near Twin Bridges, Montana, in October. Photo: Mike Cline, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Not Warm Springs Creek.
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Little Blackfoot RiverRock Creek on the Missoula Ranger District, Lolo National Forest. Photo: USDA Forest Service, Northern Region, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Not Little Blackfoot River.
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Georgetown LakeEnnis Lake, Montana, in March, with the Madison Range beyond. Photo: Gloria Cabada-Leman, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr Not Georgetown Lake.
Montana · about 24 mi
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Storm LakeHenrys Lake from Henrys Lake State Park, Idaho. Photo: James Postema, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Storm Lake.
Montana · about 24 mi
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Flint CreekThe lower Blackfoot River east of Missoula. Photo: Bureau of Land Management, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Not Flint Creek.
Montana · about 29 mi
Among the state's most-fished waters (agency angler survey)Representative photo · not Wise RiverThe Jefferson River near Waterloo, Montana, in January. Photo: Mike Cline, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Not Wise River.
Montana · about 38 mi
