A friend who spent years in the Park working for various concessionaires (mainly at Tower and Roosevelt) has spent over two decades of summers fishing the northeast corner of the Park.
When he says it’s been insanely crowded over here we sit up and take notice.
No doubt there is some fishing to be done on Soda right now. You need to plan on hoofing it up out of the Junction Meadow and Round Mountain areas at least; we’d be heading for the upper half of the creek today if we were headed in here.
Green Drakes (bigger the higher you go), PMDs, Epeorus, PMDs and a bucketful of terrestrials are on the menu, along with Spruce Moths (spotty, but increasing).
Being on the water very late will improve your chances of seeing less fisherfolk and more bears – make a little noise coming out.
