middle-fork-clearwater

Middle Fork Clearwater is a stretch on Clearwater River, Idaho.

Also called Clearwater (Selway/Lochsa confluence to Kooskia) and Middle Fork of the Clearwater.

It is fishable and launchable.

Formed by the Selway and Lochsa. Perfect Fly Store calls it the large fork; Outdoors International's steelhead program fishes the Middle Fork from drift boats; River Dance Lodge (Syringa) fly-fishes the stretch from the Selway-Lochsa confluence down to Kooskia and simply calls it the Clearwater, so shops disagree on whether to say 'Middle Fork'. Dry-fly trout water before runoff and again from ear

It is upstream of Lower Clearwater.

Sourced from 3 sites.

Sources: Outdoors International (retrieved 2026-10-20), The Perfect Fly Store (retrieved 2026-10-20) and riverdancelodge.com (retrieved 2026-10-20).

Access, closures and rules change; check with the state agency before you go.