Fishing Report For Noxon Reservoir, MT

By Rick Seaman

April 23, 2025

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Fishing Report Noxon Reservoir, MT

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Popular Fish Species Noxon Reservoir, MT

Largemouth Bass

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Jerkbaits catch a lot of bass here beginning shortly after ice-out. Vibrating jigs and crankbaits start catching more fish as the water warms. Recent bass tournament results report it typically takes a 5-pound average to get top prize, most of them are largemouth. Swimbaits and paddle-tail worms on jig heads also catch a lot of bass here. During times when the bass are finicky, a stick worm, rigged wacky style, has been catching them.

Smallmouth Bass

Current Report: Good To Very Good
Outlook: Very Good

Noxon Reservoir is also an exceptional smallmouth bass fishery. Mid-range crankbaits, jerkbaits, swimbaits and tube baits are some of the more popular baits for smallies here. Fishing for smallmouth bass is often good on cold, windy, cloudy and rainy days. Chunk rock shorelines and points are where lots of quality fish are reported to be caught all fishing season here. As Summer arrives, bass here will move off the bank to rock piles, points and ledges at comfortable depths.

Northern Pike

Current Report: Good
Outlook: Good To Very Good

Big northern pike are starting to be caught with some regularity, as the best time to fish for them here is April, May and June. It slows dow a bit in Summer, then gets pretty active again in Fall. Big spinners, flashy spoons and spinnerbaits are favorites of northern pike anglers, until the water warms into the mid-50's. Then noisy topwater baits like the Whopper Plopper and buzzbaits will get ferocious strikes when fished around shallow cover.

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Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, walleye, rainbow trout, brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat trout, lake trout, pumpkinseed sunfish, yellow perch, kokanee salmon and northern pike at Noxon Reservoir in Montana.

Noxon Reservoir is a 6,100-acre lake with 60 miles of shoreline. There is very limited options for fishing from the bank, so fishing from a boat is the best option. Largemouth and smallmouth bass are the main attraction, but there is great fishing for northern pike, trout, perch and kokanee as well.

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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".