While many of us may love to watch a boisterous thunderstorm roll by, locals often cringe at the boomers rolling out of the mountain country.
August thunderstorms start fires (and we’ve had an unbelievably quite fire season thus far this year in the greater Yellowstone area) and can dump localized rains that blow out area waters for a day or two, or cause some damage like on the Gardner about this time last summer.
Looking at the upper flow gage on Soda shows that the afternoon storms of the past few days have been dumping a fair amount of water in to the system……
Soda has been pounded (anglers, not thunderstorms) again this year just like last year, and the river’s residents are much more wary than even a month ago. There are lots of bugs still around - PMDs, Drakes, terrestrials (crickets and beetles have really been hot) – you just need a much better approach, better fish spotting skills, finer tippets, and a better first cast to make things work right now.
Time to be sneaky / stealthy and do some head hunting.
