Reader Craig S. from Michigan was in the neighborhood recently and sent over some nice pics of the upper Gallatin and had this to say….
The Park section of the Gallatin tends to be a bit crowded right now so a friend and I hiked upstream via the Bighorn Pass trail last week to access the stream in its upper meadow section. We went in about 2.5 miles and enjoyed good fishing with green drakes and attractor patterns during the afternoon. The fish are mostly rainbows and cuttbows, with an occational cutthroat at the upper end. We had the whole meadow to ourselves the entire time. There was a sign at the trailhead about a bear being sighted near an elk carcass about one mile in, but we didn’t see anything. Nonetheless, it would be prudent to carry bear and bug spray in his area of the YNP.
We heartily agree on the bug and bear spray, and with Craig’s choice of territory. Even on these frenzied days of summer fishing hiking a mile or less up the smaller waters (we adore the upper Gallatin, Fan, Grizzly and a few others in the northwest corner of the Park) will leave the crowd behind and put you on water that holds some very nice fish. Craig and his friends proved that point….
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