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Thursday, June 4, 2009

The Clouds are Your Friends (and Mine)

by Mark on June 4, 2009

in Weather

As it seemingly always does in here in southern Montana, the transition from late spring into early summer is passing in fits and starts again this year.   
Not that many weeks ago there were snow flurries in the air.  Since then we’ve seen days in the 90’s followed by days in the 40’s; tank tops and [...]

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The Gardner has made a comeback since last week.  Flows are dropping, and water clarity is improving.  The fishing isn’t at its peak by any means, but I have seen some pictures of nice fish pulled out of the river in the past few days.
Big nymphs such as stoneflies, big princes, basically anything big and [...]

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Most, if not all, of the waters in Cascade Corner remain blown out this week.  The Fall River is dropping, but is still pretty unfishable.  It won’t be too much longer though.
Fortunately, there is a fair amount of water in the park right now that is fishing well.

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Fly fishing on the Firehole has continued to improve this week, helped greatly by the cool, cloudy weather.  Not only has the cool weather slowed the melt and brought river levels down as you can see; the clouds have provided great cover for the mayflies.  
Fishing has border on good to great depending on when you’ve [...]

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