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.
River – YNP – Gibbon
It’s down to the wire this week for the “old” Madison Junction to Norris drive – for decades we’ve thought of that section of road as the “Gibbon River Drive” given the delightful proximity of the road to the river in part of the Canyon. Just five more days (counting today) and that section of [...]
Just 12 more days of driving through the Gibbon Canyon on the ‘old road’; effective 17 August the roadway will be closed forcing folks to drive a bit further and enjoy some of the rustic beauty of the Park and surrounding neighborhood. There will also be an expansion of the Gibbon fishing closure starting on [...]
The Gibbon continues to shuffle along through the summer season, off the radar of most anglers headed for trophy water to the north, east, or west. Not a lot new this week as compared to last – for the angler willing to hoof it a bit there are bountiful brookies above Norris, and still some [...]
The state of affairs on the Gibbon hasn’t changed a great deal from last week’s report. The warm weather has more or less made the river below Norris off limits for fly fishermen at this point in time, with abundant brookies and other feisty river residents available and interested above Norris. (Though a very early [...]
As the summer clock ticks away ever faster, we’re down to about a month of time left before the Madison Junction to Norris road through the Gibbon Canyon is closed. Don’t sweat the additional driving time coming up – the greater Yellowstone area is greener at this time in the year that it’s been [...]
The decision by the NPS to close access to part of the Gibbon River yesterday (map above) has prompted some commentary from a few in the neighborhood, though the affected section of the river has been warming fairly significantly on the more summer like days. The briskly cool nights of the past few days have offered some [...]
Just because it will be harder to do in a few weeks we’ve spent a bit of time in the Canyon fishing pocket water. Yes, it’s fun and no, there are not huge fish there. Personally I find fishing waters that don’t attract the ‘20/20’ crowd increasingly attractive. The Parks’ guys like Trudes here, though [...]
The Gibbon has been drawing a bit of well deserved attention these days as well; in just a few short weeks access to sections of the Gibbon will change forever (not a big deal, but you won’t be driving right to the water in the road realignment section). It’s attractor time below the meadows, with [...]
These days most fly fishing folk entering the Park from West Yellowstone relish their drive into the Park along the Madison, take a right turn at Madison junction, glance at the Gibbon in National Park Meadows, and head on to the Firehole. The Gibbon is shaping up nicely, and deserves more than a fly fisher’s [...]
Dropping flows and clearing water on the Gibbon have improved conditions quite a bit on this oft overlooked water. The Gibbon isn’t the biggest, the best, the most revered or the most photographed of rivers in the Park; in fact, it’s not even close to any of those labels. It really is oft overlooked as [...]
The Gibbon has come a long way in terms of improvement over the past week; flows are down, clarity has improved, and with the Firehole and Madison in the Park fishing well, pressure has been light to say the least. This past week the river has been most fishable below Gibbon Falls; stoneflies have been [...]
To be quite honest we didn’t spend a lot of time looking the Gibbon over in the days before the opener last Saturday and when in the Park over the weekend. Flows were running quite high and reports from friends and neighbors encouraged us to pursue other options. Despite some bright sunny days and warming [...]
Gibbon flows didn’t quite reach the outrageous levels the Firehole did during our mini-heat wave earlier in the week, though as you can see from the flow chart she’s another one of the Park rivers that is rolling along today. With another cool night in the Park last night, this morning’s peak was roughly 50 [...]
There’s been a fair amount of commentary offered by some of our fishing neighbors regarding the scheduled closure of the Park road from Madison Junction to Norris after 17 August this season. We’ll offer our two cents in a few days. Park fisherfolk know that section of Park road parallels the lovely Gibbon River [...]
