The big news over on the Lamar is a small lightning strike started fire on Druid Peak. When the official press release came out yesterday, officials said the fire was less than a half-acre in size, but is expected to grow slowly. Firefighters are keeping an eye on it. Just a heads up. From a [...]
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
The Lower Madison is pretty much effectively shut off at this point. The combination of rising water temps and the damn tubers is killer. Look for this stretch to improve come fall. If you do feel compelled to fish the Lower, hit it in mornings before the legions of tubers awake from their drunken stupor. [...]
The state of affairs on the Gibbon hasn’t changed a great deal from last week’s report. The warm weather has more or less made the river below Norris off limits for fly fishermen at this point in time, with abundant brookies and other feisty river residents available and interested above Norris. (Though a very early [...]
As extraordinarily well as the river between the lakes (damned crowded) and on the upper Madison has been fishing, the Madison River in the Park has been getting a bit warm on these long, sunny days (and given the very warm input from the Firehole). Unquestionably we agree with the admonitions coming from most quarters [...]
