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Article: Forty Miles of Fish: The Smith River, limestone walls, trout, and not much else.(Where To Go: Hunting & Fishing Adventures/INSIDE MONTANA'S SMITH RIVER CANYON / FOUR MORE GREAT FLOAT TRIPS)
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- Field & Stream (West ed.)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2005
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Byline: Keith McCafferty
"LOOKS LIKE THE ZAMBEZI RIVER." THE man spoke with a South African accent and was huddled in a slicker on the put-in bridge, watching water boil around the pilings below. "Uprooted trees, drowned livestock, everything but the bloody crocs," he said. For most of the year, the clouds that cast shadows across the Smith River canyon in a dry basin of west-central Montana deliver no rain. But not in May. The morning of our launch on Memorial Day weekend, we had driven gravel roads to the river through a downpour. The South African shook his head at the rafting gear piled high on our truck. "Have a nice float. Looks like it's going to be a fast ...