Better eat a big breakfast before heading out on the Bitterroot. Despite the heat the past few days the upper river is beginning to fish all day. I haven’t fished it this week below Florence, but the word is down that low things have been slower during the middle part of the day. It’s not [...]
August 2009
Digging on the last day to drive the Gibbon Canyon road. Drinking from the Madison…
We’re hearing more and more chatter about the Park section of the Madison beginning to wake up a bit from its summer siesta. Part of me wants to think it’s still summer, and in some respects it is – there’s lots of bright sunshine around, it’s still pretty danged warm most days (at least for [...]
The Madison continues to fish well. Flows on the Upper river are holding at right under 1,000 cfs. The cooler weather and rain earlier this week bumped flows a little bit, but water clarity was not that affected. The Lower remains locked in the grip of the tubers, but should be starting to fish better [...]
Despite a big bump in flows over the past few days from a heavy rain storm that moved through, the Gallatin is in pretty good shape. Flows are better than they have been in recent years, and the fish are eagerly feeding on a variety of insect life. Everything from caddis to mayflies to Spruce [...]
Despite a few breaks from the summer sun of late – this week’s fly fishing options on the Henry’s Fork sound a lot like the week before (and before that, and before that….). Terrestrials rule the day along most of the river, particularly later in the day, and there are still some caddis around to [...]
From West Yellowstone yesterday afternoon…..
Flows on the Gardner have come back up again in the past few days, back to almost 190 cfs. Yesterday, Mark and I were down in the park and it was raining very hard, as it had been all day. The heavy rain is going to bump flows up and might muddy the waters somewhat. [...]
I know I probably sound like a broken record, but the evening Caddis on the Clark Fork have been killer of late. From about 7 until 9 in the evening it’s been pretty damned crazy; my daughter, her husband and I made it out three evenings this past week and had some of the best [...]
It’s clearly still August, albeit late August – in a ‘typical’ Yellowstone year that means it’s still summer but evidence the arrival of Fall is accumulating in the hills and along the river. The lower Firehole has even been teasing its followers a bit of late – water temperatures have been cooling somewhat and there [...]
After getting bounced around a bit by stormy weather off and on over the past few weeks, the Big Hole is back in the groove again. Like most neighborhood waters this time of year, and at least in part due to sun exposure and weather, there are better days than others. There have been quite [...]
Like a lot of waters in the state right now, the Beaverhead is in pretty good shape. Flows were dropped again this week, ending up right above 470 cfs. It has been a pretty hot week with some afternoon thunderstorms, so the weather has been good for hoppers. There are lots of options on the [...]
