BUTTE, Mont. - If you're planning a fishing trip this Memorial Day weekend, you may want to hold off.
 
Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials tell NBC Montana the water levels are on the higher side of normal, which means the fish might not be biting.
 
To fishers those high levels make for tough fishing.
 
"When the water level comes up the fish don't bite as easily as they do when the water level's coming down, so I guess that could put people off while the water's coming up," said fisherman Michael Skiba.
 
With the temperatures warming up and snowmelt draining into the rivers it's looking like it'll only get worse.
 
"Two weeks ago was really, really good fishing, dry flies, and then the water came up a bunch, so we'll kind of be on hold until the salmon flies start popping," said Chris Bradley, co-owner of Stonefly Fly Shop in Butte.
 
Bradley said it's not all bad though. He said if you're on a boat, you can really strike gold on the river.
 
"It opens up more water to you. As the water rises, a lot of the fish get pushed to the edges, so from a boat it makes it nice to be able to fish down the banks on either side of the river," Bradley said.
 
Many people end their fishing trips at the Salmon Fly access site. While guides said the higher water levels aren't great for wade fishing, they are good for overall river health.
 
"It's good for the newly hatched and soon-to-hatching fish. It's good to kind of scour the river bottom and kind of clean out all the sediment and muck that's accumulated in there," Bradley said.
 
"The water levels will be up later in the summer, to allow floating and keep the water temperature cooler so it's not so stressful on the fish," Skiba added.
 
The May 2016 water levels have been higher than May 2015, but much lower than in May 2014.
 
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