Jake and I ran to Missoula yesterday to accomplish a few different objectives; we were helping Jess move back to Bozeman and looking at venues for a film project we’re working on. I’ve never really done this before – we kept a running list of the fishable water that we saw during the drive from [...]
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Any river as large and complex as the Madison is never going to be the same along its entire length. Some parts of the river are fishing wonderfully, and others are under siege by an army of colorful drunks. But, that is summer on the Madison. The Upper is in great shape. Lots of Salmonflies [...]
Good news – bad news today on the Yellowstone. The good news – Salmonflies are on the river and nearing Yankee Jim. There are some big Caddis (the big chocolate brown Caddis) and some Goldens around as well. Despite the high flows there have been some boats on the water and they’ve been boating some [...]
The river over here is entering one of those magic windows – flows are still running a bit on the high side at 7800 to 7900 cfs though they’ve been stable now more or less since the afternoon of the second. The bread and butter dry fly action is on PMDs and Caddis (the evening [...]
The Gallatin is about to enter its prime. Flows are coming down, and visibility is improving. Yesterday when I drove over it, the river definitely had that greenish tint that signifies the coming end of runoff. It’s really great being able to post a flow chart that shows the water coming down, not shooting up! [...]
