Show a little Yellowstone River love and get a free boat power wash. Two spring cleanings in one day. Life is good.
River – Yellowstone
In no way a surprise to anyone who’s ever floated one of the big western rivers, debris piles in and along the banks of the Yellowstone River downstream from the spill site have collected a fair amount of spilled oil. Oil in varying amounts has been spied in roughly 200 such debris piles, and the […]
There’s an image and a blog headline we never figured we’d be posting here. Yesterday found our team otherwise engaged (we were all working at various posts) when the news broke of a pipeline rupture / leak beneath the mighty Yellowstone River. Our first reaction – dammit to hell. Didn’t really start digging into the […]
Damn has it been windy over in Paradise Valley of late. The pic above was taken a few days ago – clearly the leaves have mostly blown down out of the Cottonwoods and there’s more snow in the hills. Yellowstone River devotees are used to battling breezes of varying power, though when the big boys […]
Our new friend Jacob Robidiou who blogs over at The Year on the Fly 2009 has a nifty post up about Yankee Jim Canyon on the Yellowstone River downstream a bit from Gardiner – read Redemption Canyon here. That’s his pic of the canyon taken from the less often visited west side. Jake is […]
Can’t believe how uncrowded the river has been of late. Some of the neighbors think the November like cold showing up in early October has flushed a lot of the softies off the river; maybe so. Elk have been moving down this week and there’s bird hunting to do too. October is a busy time […]
Several friends who have been on the river earlier in the week reported loads of whitefish but not much else. The guys at Fins and Feathers here in Bozeman have even called it the Yellowstone’s ‘transitional funk’ (it does sound like an interesting name for a band….). That will be changing now with several days […]
Not a lot different from the past few weeks given the fact we’re stuck in a high pressure dominated, bright sun, and warm pattern. That said, hoppers are fading in effectiveness; some of that is seasonal, some of that is due to the fact that fish have seen a massive flotilla of foam hoppers pass […]
The ‘Stone has been blowing hot and cold cool as is usually does this time of year. Above Yankee Jim fish are still rising well to dries – including attractors and funky hoppers / terrestrials. The Park’s guys said pink is the color of choice in their last report on the upper Yellowstone. I’ll be […]
Talked to a friend who is on the water around the neighborhood at least four days a week – he spent an afternoon and evening on the Yellowstone on Wednesday. The good news: water looks good right now, flows are healthy, there are lots of fish being brought to hand. Terrestrials are still playing well, […]
The plug of mud pushed into the system from the Lamar finally rolled through the better part of the valley by yesterday, and the river has come back to fine form. The Yellowstone has been offering up some of the best dry fly and hopper fishing that we’ve seen in a few years. The game […]
The stories we’re hearing are enough to send chills down your spine. Due to the ‘publicity’ the lower river has received this summer a lot of the trophy hunters are down below town chasing monsters, and the upper river has been surprisingly unpressured (for this time of year, anyway). Let ’em chase the hogs down […]
I tend to pay attention when some of the guys and gals who have been around the neighborhood all their lives say things like – I’ve been fishing this river since I was old enough to hold a fly rod and not since my grandpa Bob and my dad and I floated this in the […]
A good friend was on the upper yesterday and he and his party were absolutely pounded by a heavy rain and hail storm. It’s part of the game fishing up here in August, and there will likely be more of the same today. Flows have bumped at Corwin Springs and near Livingston this morning; there […]
