Days are still pretty warm but cool nights are helping move us closer to the heyday for fall hatches we’re all waiting for. It’s going to be closer to 80 all week for highs, but lows in the high thirties and low forties feel damn good and are at least a little closer to what [...]
September 2009
The Lamar, like most waters in the area, is still pretty tough. The river has yet to enter its “magic window” of great fall fishing. Things have been picking up though, and they should be getting better all the time. Yesterday, Mark and I drove down through Gardiner and around Lake to the Firehole [...]
The reports from the Madison in the Park are more and more encouraging; there are consistently more fish moving in despite Mother Nature’s offering of an almost summer like September thus far. Prime time continues to be early and late, with more of our circle of fisher folk fishing late in the day. Our most [...]
There are even runners now in the lower Gibbon meadow, though numbers will certainly improve over the next several weeks. Soft hackles and streamers are the name of the game. Don’t forget that the road is only open to Tuft Cliffs – next year you’ll be able to get up river.
A hearty welcome to the Fall season, though you probably wouldn’t know today is the autumnal equinox given the neighborhood weather. Here’s to some cooler, cloudy, drizzly Blue Wing Olive fall days. Wahoo. Image credit: redOrbit
The bright sunny days of the neighborhood’s Indian Summer are still having an impact on the fishing up and down the Fork. Looking at the weather forecast for the week shows lots of sun and warm temps are due again this week. Not a lot has changed since our last report; the Box remains very [...]
Now it finally feels like fall. This morning in Bozeman it is in the 30s with a high of only 60-something forecast for today. Beats the hell out of the 80s and 90s we have been seeing every day. Fall fishing is upon us too, and the Gardner is no exception. The upper river is [...]
According to my daughter and her husband the Clark Fork has been fishing pretty well over the past few days. During the unsettled weather Saturday and Sunday they even saw some olives out on the upper river – like the golden color spotting the hills seeing olives on the river is one of the surest [...]
To be brutally honest I haven’t been in the main body of the Park for a week, and in particular haven’t spent any time on one of my favorite fall season rivers – The Firehole. One reason is that life has been a bit busy of late; one reason is that last week was much [...]
No one who has been on the Big Hole this year would be surprised to hear that the river is in very good shape right now. Several friends and neighbors have been over this week and reported excellent days on the river on dries – Tricos early, with very strong terrestrial and attractor days. They [...]
We’ll be a little late in getting posts up today – off to the Madison early (more due to work schedules than anything else). For the first time this year there are a few little thunderstorm cells wandering the neighborhood early – thunder in Bozeman this morning at about 0520. Should see some bugs this morning [...]
Things are still pretty tough over on the Yellowstone in the Park. Flows out of the lake are still up there; definitely not lacking water this year. I have heard reports of some impressive weed growth below the lake, so be ready to deal with that. The section below the lake is the toughest on [...]
For the second week in a row most of our crew has been chained to the real world and not been able to make the trek to the northeast corner of the Park, even though it’s less than three hours away. Looks like today’s weather calls for hot and windy conditions ahead of one of [...]
Montana isn’t necessarily known for many culinary innovations – but here’s one with some staying power – Cold Smoke Ice Cream. Read all about it in today’s Missoulian here.
