If you can’t get to Montana but want to support our store, click on our “On line fly shop” button in the left and shop from your favorite chair. We invite everyone to stop in at Flint Creek Outdoors and meet our manager Josh McKown, when fishing or passing through the Philipsburg area.
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For those who want a bit of Montana we carry a huge assortment of our Blackfoot River Outfitters and Flint Creek Outdoors logo wear and hats.įeel free to call us to fill all your fly-fishing gear needs-and remember there is no sales tax in Montana. Our angling products include Orvis rods, reels, equipment and gifts, Simms waders, boots, outerwear and packs, Galvan fly reels, Fishpond chest packs and bags, Redington rods, Rio fly lines, leaders and tippet, Costa and Suncloud sunglasses, and more than 10,000 Montana Fly Company flies in stock. Our manager, Josh McKown and associate, Bruce Burnett’s total hours on the area’s waters are enviable and afford an unparallel advice for visiting anglers.Īt Flint Creek Outdoors, “If we don’t use it, we won’t sell it!” And when you log over 700 days per year on the water – that means something Shadowed by the Pintlar Mountains, Philipsburg is a mere 15 minutes from world famous Rock Creek, the same from Georgetown Lake, 30 minutes from the Clark Fork, less than an hour from the fabled Big Hole River, and walking distance from our name sake Flint Creek. One thing officials want the Army Corps to investigate is the environmental impact of removing the dam, which is on the north end of the lake and reportedly consists of concrete chunks.Our fly shop, Flint Creek Outdoors, is located in picturesque Philipsburg, Montana. residents of Barrington stand to suffer the consequences." What's neededĭaulton Lange doesn't yet know what kind of environmental remediation might be needed in the creek and lake, or how much such work could cost. "If we don't continue to protect and enhance this integral part of the ecosystem. I recently ducked in to FlintCreek with my wife and a pal to check out the food and drinks, and here are three impressions. "If the water quality in the creek is high, then that means the water percolating back to the water table where we pull our drinking water from is also going to be filtered and of a higher quality," Scheiwiller said. "A healthy Flint Creek means a healthy Barrington," said Kevin Scheiwiller, restoration program manager for Citizens for Conservation, another group trying to improve the creek and lake. They should also concern Lake Barrington residents, all of whom get water from local wells. Type Site: Cambron Site 78, Flint Creek, Morgan County, Alabama. These problems don't just endanger the fish, birds and other animals that live in and around the waterways. Named For: Type site was located on Flint Creek Date Identified: 1958. Two Flint Creek Plant ash storage sites are included in the CCR monitoring program: The primary bottom ash pond and The landfill. The average water depth is less than one foot, said Jeff Weiss, coordinator with the Flint Creek/Spring Creek Watersheds Partnership, one of the Barrington-based groups that's tackling environmental issues in the waterways. Sediment buildup and drought have lowered the water level in the lake, too. Pollution from road salt and fertilizers that wash into the water can be deadly to fish and other aquatic wildlife. By FUN, we mean hitting the dirt hard, 50 mile grinder, race all night, giving it all you got for the weekend warrior glory kind of fun. Environmentally important buffer plants don't thrive like they should. What is Flint Creek Endurance Flint Creek Endurance's vision is to create FUN endurance events around Northwest Arkansas. Invasive plant species including buckthorn and reed canary grass have crowded out native plants. It's privately owned by residents and the homeowners association there.įlowing south to north, about 4 miles of the roughly 11-mile-long creek meander through Lake Barrington.īoth the lake and the creek have had ecological issues for decades, Daulton Lange said. The kidney-shaped lake was created out of farmland by developers and early residents of the Flint Lake Estates subdivision in the 1960s, in part by damming the creek.
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