Georgetown Lake Pintler Range
— a high lake under a quiet range.
Not only on a wall.
“A high reservoir between Anaconda and Philipsburg, ringed by the Pintler peaks to the south and the Flint Range to the north. The water sits a little over six thousand feet. Ice fishermen come in January, fly fishermen in June. Discovery Ski Area runs the north slope through winter, and the Pintler Scenic Byway threads the south shore most of the way around.
Georgetown Lake Pintler Range, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Georgetown Lake is a 3,700-acre reservoir straddling the line between Deer Lodge and Granite counties in southwest Montana, on Highway 1 between Anaconda and Philipsburg. The lake sits at about 6,400 feet, dammed at its east end where Flint Creek leaves the basin. It was first impounded in 1885 to supply the Anaconda smelters with hydroelectric power and reshaped by the present concrete dam in 1901. The Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness rises to the south, with Mount Haggin and West Goat Peak both above ten thousand feet along the Continental Divide.
The lake holds ice from December through early April most years, and the ice-fishing for kokanee and rainbow trout is the winter draw. Open water comes in May. Fly fishing the weed beds peaks from June through September, and the Pintler Scenic Byway carries traffic past the south shore through fall. Snow returns by mid-October, and Discovery Ski Area on the north end opens for the season typically in the week before Thanksgiving.
Georgetown Lake is one of Montana's most productive trout fisheries for its size. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks stocks rainbow trout and manages a self-sustaining brook trout and kokanee salmon population. The cold, weedy shallows produce the food base that carries the larger fish. The lake drains east into Flint Creek and eventually to the Clark Fork. On a still summer evening the water reads emerald against the Pintler limestone, with the peaks of the Anaconda Range reflected the length of the south shore.