Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Yesterday I ran down to Slough Creek in Yellowstone with my buddies Mike and Tracy.  We all work at the same store back in Bozeman and had been planning the trip for a few days.  And so, with it pouring rain, we left town at 7:00 am.  It rained all the way to the Tower [...]

    There’s been more than one person in the know opine that the HF is fishing more like the old days than ever before.  I happen to be one of those who never fished the Fork during her ‘glory days’ of the past, so I can’t personally make the call – but there are [...]

Ah summer.  The time when one part of the Madison shuts down and one part hits its stride. Such is life.  The Lower remains under siege from the armies of drunken tubers.  The only time you can really fish this stretch right now is in the mornings, when water temps are cool and before the [...]

Due to all the rain in recent days, the Gallatin has blown back out.  Taylor Fork is pumping a lot of mud into the rivers, as are all of the feeder creeks and tribs.  Flows have bumped back up almost to the 80th percentile.  Clarity is gone, all of several inches right now.  Before the [...]