Yesterday Mark and I drove through the Gallatin Canyon on the way to West Yellowstone to meet with John Juracek before his trip to England. The number of folks fishing the Gallatin was impressive – there were people on the water from the confluence with Fan Creek basically all the way down through the Canyon. [...]
River – Gallatin
Due to all the rain in recent days, the Gallatin has blown back out. Taylor Fork is pumping a lot of mud into the rivers, as are all of the feeder creeks and tribs. Flows have bumped back up almost to the 80th percentile. Clarity is gone, all of several inches right now. Before the [...]
The Gallatin is about to enter its prime. Flows are coming down, and visibility is improving. Yesterday when I drove over it, the river definitely had that greenish tint that signifies the coming end of runoff. It’s really great being able to post a flow chart that shows the water coming down, not shooting up! [...]
The Gallatin is shaping up. Water is dropping, and the fish are really coming to life. Clarity is up over a foot now in most places. Mark and I drove out to Williams Bridge yesterday to get a look at her, but forgot the damn camera. Salmonflies and golden stones are coming off in the [...]
Yesterday, Mark and I had to run over to Missoula and got a chance to eyeball some of the waters in the area. The Gallatin, at least the lower reaches of it, is blown out again. The water is high and dirty. Last Saturday all of us drove down to the Park, driving along the [...]
The Gallatin has had an interesting week. Several days ago, Mark and I drove up the canyon a ways and were surprised at how much better the water looked. Not perfect by any means, but not chocolate milk either. The rain over the past few days is starting to filter down to the river, which [...]
The Gallatin, while not optimal, is certainly fishable. Flows are down almost 1,700 cfs from their high earlier this week. The water is still pretty dang muddy, but it is clearing up some. I know we have been putting up a lot of flow charts lately, but it is a relief to show one with [...]
The Gallatin is still blownout. I wouldn’t count on fishing the river for at least several more weeks. However, if this cool snap does indeed stick around all week like the weathermen are projecting, the upper reaches of the river might clear just enough to warrant a fishing trip. If the jeep wasn’t experiencing some mechanical [...]
The Gallatin is still completely blown out. Flows are almost 4,000 cfs this morning at Gallatin Gateway and will be rising throughout the day. The river near Logan is expected to flood either later today or in the next few days. Even the upper river above Taylor Fork is pretty dirty. It will be a [...]
Twice yesterday I had to go look at the Gallatin. As you can tell from the pictures we put up last night, she is high and very muddy. In fact, she looked out of her banks at the mouth of the canyon. The river below there is only going to be worse. The Gallatin isn’t [...]
In keeping with our Star Trek theme today – the Gallatin mid-morning from the Williams Bridge, upstream and downstream views. The quick assessment – It’s Dead, Jim.
We here at Chi Wulff have been hearing some disturbing rumblings throughout our network of contacts. These rumblings consist of one word: runoff. It seems that several folks we know and trust are saying that runoff on the Gallatin is here, or at least very close. The cooler weather has helped to slow it down [...]
The Gallatin has had a good week. Baetis and March Browns have been coming off and the dry fly fishing has been pretty good. Mark and I had a great evening down on the lower river by Manhattan a few nights ago, you can read about it here. But now things aren’t looking so good. [...]
The cooler weather and snow this week have helped the Gallatin, even though almost everyone I know has been praying hard for the return of 70 degree days and sunshine. Water clarity has improved quite a bit since early this week when flows were at their highest. We made a run out to Four Corners [...]
The Gallatin, like many rivers in the past few days, is going up. The high temperatures (it was pushing 75 on my front porch yesterday afternoon) over the past few days, snow has been melting like crazy all over the area. The cooler weather this weekend should slow things down a bit, but it is only [...]
