Fly Fishing In Yellowstone, Southern Montana, and Around
From the monthly archives:
Not a whole lot has changed over on the Beaverhead this past week. The best water is still from the dam down to High Bridge, with all the creeks and feeder streams blown out. Nymphing is still the mainstay, with not a whole lot of action up on top.
Standard nymphs such as princes, hare’s ears, [...]
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The Bighorn continues to fish well. Flows were increased earlier this week to around 4,500 cfs. The water is running clear for the most part and the fishing is pretty good.
Not much has changed as far as hatches and recommended flies are concerned. Nymphs such as sowbugs, san juan worms, pheasant tails, midge and Baetis [...]
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The ‘more mature’ I become, the more interested I find myself in people, events, and things in general that defy conventional wisdom.
‘Conventional wisdom’ leads folks to often make what they think are ‘safe choices’ that very often turn out to be dull, insipid, and void of adventure and opportunity.
The Big Hole this week provides a [...]
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The flow gage on the Yellowstone River as it leaves Yellowstone Lake has been moving up all week – there’s now an impressive volume of water moving through.
The lower Grand and Black Canyons were marginal last weekend and are long gone now.
See you below the outlet on the 15th of July.
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Talked this week to a crowd averse, northeast corner fanatic who fished the first meadow on opening day.
He report was less than ebullient about his experience last Saturday. In fact he talked much more about the critters he encountered (grizzly, bison, elk, deer, coyotes, wolves, otters, badgers, and sheep near Tower) than he did the [...]
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Warm, sunny days and plentiful snowpack have prodded flows on the northeast corner waters to make a move up this week.
The powers at be have apparently discontinued the gage on Soda near the Lamar Ranger Station, so the gage report below was taken this morning from the Soda Butte gage near the Park border.
There is [...]
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Is it possible to brownline in Bozeman? Perhaps not quite to the standards of Singlebarbed and the Fat Guys Fly Fishing, but it can be done. Take the Bozeman Pond for example. After work last night, my buddy Shane and I decided to head on down there and throw for some flies for a few [...]
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To be quite honest we didn’t spend a lot of time looking the Gibbon over in the days before the opener last Saturday and when in the Park over the weekend. Flows were running quite high and reports from friends and neighbors encouraged us to pursue other options.
Despite some bright sunny days and warming temps, [...]
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What a difference a few days can make.
The Park section of the Madison has cleared quite a bit since last weekend – visibility is now at least 2 feet, and you could argue that it’s even better. Flows have been a genuine guessing game for quite a while as the gage station wasn’t working just [...]
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The Lamar is still blown out. Damn.
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