While conditions the next few days won’t be close to what you might venture to call perfect, conditions are improving on the Big Hole. Cooler temperatures have slowed the melt and the watershed did not get a lot of rain as was mentioned in the forecast. Here’s a look at the flow chart at Melrose, [...]
April 2009
From the Night Before the Mother’s Day Caddis Hatch ….Fly fishermen were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of caddis danced in their heads; And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled down for a long spring’s nap, After months of watching a strike indicator bobbing down the [...]
The Beaverhead has been fishing well this past week. The river is starting to discolor somewhat, mainly from the discharge of Grasshopper Creek. Visibility is still in the very fishable range, and should only improve with the cooler weather this week. Flows came up quite a bit earlier in the week, but are back to average [...]
Jake’s vintage jeep (1983 CJ-7, red, soft-top) turned 125K on the way down out of the Gallatin Canyon today. Pretty amazing vehicle actually – it’s had some nice engine work done on the original block and frankly runs like a top. The gas gauge doesn’t work, she struggles heading uphill into a stiff wind, and [...]
The Good News: More than one fly fisher folk have reported actual sightings of caddis on the Yellowstone. Mike (good friend, great fisherman, reasonably reliable reporter of river conditions) was over on Wednesday and saw and fished caddis; he promised pictures and has not delivered as of this morning. Pictures or not – hot damn. [...]
Yesterday I introduced to you Camille Egdorf, fly fisher extraordinaire. Today, I would like to go into a little more detail about her experiences in the wilds of the Alaskan bush. Like I had mentioned earlier, the Egdorf family owns and operates two fishing camps in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska. Dave and Kim [...]
I have some bad news my friends. Rock Creek is blown out. She is currently flowing at almost 2,000 CFS, and is full of mud. The hot weather this past week really brought down a lot of melt. Rock Creek is almost always the first river in the area to blow out and among the [...]
The weather is acting pretty much like it’s supposed to for April; last week we had highs pushing 80 early in the week, and yesterday it was snowing like hell for a while. It was 12 last night at my place near Craig, and highs today will only be around 40. The big news is [...]
I just looked up from just over three hours of grinding out a project on the computer, and I’ll be damned if it’s not snowing like crazy in Bozeman this afternoon. My mental ruminations follow in staccato outbursts: Snowing hard. Big flakes. Flakes the size of a quarter. Visibility’s down to about a half mile. [...]
It is rare to meet a young woman with skill, incredible passion and active involvement in the sport of fly fishing. It is even more rare when that young woman has been fly fishing almost since she could hold a rod, and spends four months of the year in the Alaskan bush country. Until just [...]
As always it seems to, the Madison continues to fish well. The warm weather has pushed some mud and sediment into the river, but visibility is still very fishable to excellent. I have heard reports of crystal clear water around 8 Mile Bridge on the Upper. Speaking of the Upper, one of my co-workers was [...]
Mother nature’s going to throw a curveball over the next few days, just after most of us in the neighborhood were getting used to this balmy weather. Gallatin Field near Bozeman hit 80 on Tuesday and yesterday– that’s ‘blow out my favorite river warm’. The curveball pitch is a cool and moist weather system moving [...]
The report from Henry’s Fork of the Snake territory really hasn’t changed a great deal from last week’s notes. One thing that has changed is the amount of snow down in Island Park – compare the web cam picture from yesterday afternoon above to one week ago. Folks are beginning to talk about the opening of the [...]
Al wasn’t kidding this morning when he posted about the Clark Fork – the top pic was taken on the Higgins Bridge downtown (Missoula) this afternoon – she’s muddy with lots of debris coming down. Even the kayakers have been off the last couple of days. The pic below was taken just below the bridge….
