River – Yellowstone

The one who must be obeyed desired a burger, tots, and a cherry coke at Mark’s for a late lunch today.  She earned it this week. A drive to Livingston must always include a peek at the Yellowstone; despite the warmer weather and the melt of a fair volume of the low-level snow, she looked […]

The river was fishing pretty danged well before our return to winter and cooler temps this week.   Baetis were out and streamers working pretty well.  Friends up in Gardiner said they were shoveling 8-10 inches of wet, heavy snow on Wednesday (the Park’s guys confirmed as well); when the highs start pushing into the 60’s […]

The Yellowstone River has been offering something of a mixed bag for fly fisher folk the past week or so.  Below Livingston guys and gals nymphing and throwing streamers have been doing pretty well, though some of the tribs have been pumping some stained (and worse) water in this week given the snow melt and […]

Jake and I had to run over the hill to Livingston today for a lunch meeting.  Yes, lunch was good, the business meeting went well.  One cannot travel to Livingston without a glance at the Yellowstone, so we left our lunch meeting and headed down to Carter’s.  Passed an interesting lawn mower rig in a […]

There is a lot of great fly fishing water in Montana – most of it is pretty darned well known to those who frequent the area, some of it is not so well known.  In addition to the Yellowstone National Park waters that we’ve been covering for the past several years at Best Fly Fishing […]