Fly Fishing In Yellowstone, Southern Montana, and Around
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The Madison is one of my favorite rivers this time of year. All along its length, the fishing is good. Flows have been up and down somewhat this week, but are stabilizing. Clarity is good, and the big bugs are out!
The Salmonflies are on the Upper. Last I heard, the hatch was concentrated around the [...]
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The Gallatin is shaping up. Water is dropping, and the fish are really coming to life. Clarity is up over a foot now in most places. Mark and I drove out to Williams Bridge yesterday to get a look at her, but forgot the damn camera.
Salmonflies and golden stones are coming off in the canyon. [...]
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We’ve been running around like chickens with our heads off the past week or so and have not been down on the lower Henry’s as we’d planned to do around the 15th. Where the hell has the month of June gone?
Jake has overheard some grousing (and worse) in his store of late regarding the Henry’s [...]
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The ‘Root is finally beginning to fish pretty much along the whole river, though I’m spending most of my time on the West Fork still – that’s more or less my home water.
Flows are settling decently, and it seems that just this past week the river and fish are beginning to settle into more of [...]
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Conditions are improving on the Clark Fork, though the river is still a bit away from offering what anyone would say are prime conditions.
Mark and Jake are giving me a hard time about posting flow charts in all of my reports, but this time of year flow rates are critical and offer a great deal [...]
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The Blackfoot is in great shape. Flows are coming down, the water is clearing up and there are lots of insects in the river. This is one of my personal favorite times to fish the Blackfoot.
PMDs, green drakes, golden stones, caddis and Salmonflies are all coming off as of this time. Barring a short break [...]
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As famous a fishery as the Madison River is, few fly anglers see the Madison Dam at the head of Bear Trap Canyon.
We were doing a bit of scouting (raft launch and salmon flies) on the Madison yesterday afternoon – the Dry Fly Media team is about to upgrade their raft and we’ll be filming [...]
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Jake and I had the chance to run over to the Park on Friday afternoon; it was one of those last minute things after a business trip I had planned was cancelled at the last minute.
We left Bozeman in bright sun and temps climbing through the 70s (enough to make a fat guy sweat) and [...]
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Flows on the Big Horn have been bumped to over 12,400 cfs as of this morning. There is a lot of water in the river right now, making wading somewhat dangerous. Be careful.
With the massive amounts of water in the river right now, the fish are holding in the pockets, pools and quiet places along [...]
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The rains recently have caused flows from the dam to be drastically reduced. The lower water has affected fishing somewhat, but in a positive way. Water clarity is good, with visibility over a foot.
Caddis and PMDs are the main hatches at this point. Both of them are producing good dry fly fishing. The fish are [...]
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