Fishing near Fort Smith, MT

Fort Smith sits in the Bighorn Canyon country of south-central Montana, where the Yellowtail Dam impounds the Bighorn River to form Bighorn Lake. Below the dam, the Bighorn River runs as one of the West's premier tailwater trout fisheries — a blue-ribbon wild trout water drawing fly anglers from across the country. Bighorn Lake itself, stretching some 41 miles into Montana and 30 miles into Wyoming, supports a separate warmwater fishery managed primarily for walleye.