A pretty impressive mud plug has impacted fisher folk on the Yellowstone this week. A neighbor fished up high yesterday (above Yankee Jim) and said visibility was in the 2-3 foot range; they saw lots of hoppers in the bankside brush but not many in the water. He claims fish were all over small hoppers [...]
July 2009
This is one of those years on the Missouri that you almost have to see to believe. Lots of water, lots of bugs, and lots of people. Canyon Ferry is pretty much at full pool, so flows are going to remain pretty healthy relative to the historical average – flows are 4480 this morning out [...]
I don’t know what it is about the Rock this year – despite a great start to the season and plenty of water and bugs through the season – the Rock just hasn’t seen (at least in my simple mind) as much traffic as in years past. The rain induced spike in flows that moved [...]
The Blackfoot bumped up in the past few days with the rain we received. Flows briefly popped up above 1,200 cfs and water temps cooled off, just what the river needed. The water is coming back down now, as you can see from the chart. Fishing is starting to get a little tougher over [...]
Flows on the Bighorn are being lowered again, down to 3,500 cfs at some point in the next few days. This means already good fishing conditions are going to stay that way! Hoppers are the big news over here, as on most rivers right now. With the lower flows and warmer temps, the bugs [...]
The spurt of rainy and cool weather we’ve all enjoyed lately has done a lot for the Bitterroot – flows bumped just a little Monday and yesterday and the water temp cooled some – it has been delightful. The upper half of the river didn’t suffer as much in the heat last week as the [...]
Hopper season has hit the Lamar full force. Summer weather has finally settled in, and the terrestrials are out. As you can see from the chart, flows on the Lamar has been up and down over the past week, and are even now still above the median average for this time of year. The [...]
The Park section of the Madison River is still giving up some very nice morning fishing during the PMD spinner falls – they’re roughly from 730 or so until 1030 or 11. Our PMD maniac friends are having the most fun in the meadow below Madison junction and the section between 7 Mile and the [...]
The Gibbon continues to shuffle along through the summer season, off the radar of most anglers headed for trophy water to the north, east, or west. Not a lot new this week as compared to last – for the angler willing to hoof it a bit there are bountiful brookies above Norris, and still some [...]
Not too much has changed on the Madison in the past week. The summer pattern is here, and is likely to be here for some time. The Lower is still out of it. Hit it early if you have to fish it at all. Should be getting better this fall. Damn tubers. The Upper [...]
It seems like the Gallatin has been pretty hit or miss for a long time. All the rain we got a while back was not the best thing for water clarity. But, things have started to get more consistently good over here. Flows have stabilized, although they are coming up a bit from levels [...]
Though you wouldn’t have believed it yesterday with the cloud cover all day and highs (at my place at least) not breaking 70 – the neighborhood remains in the grip of summer. The Henry’s Fork is not known for fishing astoundingly well during the dog days, but there’s enough going on to keep things interesting [...]
The Gardner has been holding its own these past few days. Flows have come down slightly since the start of the week, but are still above median levels. Clarity is excellent, and water temp is coming up. There have been a fair number of caddis in the river lately. This hatch occurs in [...]
The Beaverhead is in its summer stride. Flows out of the dam have come up in the past several days, up to over 870 cfs at Barrets as of this morning. This means that the fish are all over the river, not just holding in the deeper runs and pools. Summer hatches of PMDs [...]
Those of you following the fishing over here know that it’s been hot as hell this past week; the upper Clark Fork has been fishing decently during the warm spell while the river below Missoula has been pretty spotty. Clouds, a chance of rain, lower temperatures, and higher humidity (bugs stay on the water longer) [...]
