River – YNP – Firehole
I’ve been away for a couple of days doing some work in the Flathead region of Montana (photography work at the Rebecca Farms Three Day Event in Kalispell) and have come back to Bozeman to find the weather forecast this week looking a lot more like the first or second week of September than the […]
Last week’s Firehole post resulted in a flurry of emails criticizing our recommendation that the thoughtful angler will rest the river from Old Faithful down due to warming; lot’s of folks it seems consider fishing the Firehole one of the rights of passage when visiting Yellowstone. Our pitch is fish away – just do it […]
Jess and I were in the Park yesterday and caught a great storm rolling across the western park of the Park; the clouds on the Firehole were stupendous. The pic above was just before the storm rolled in; I’ll have more pics up later today. I know there are a few folks in the neighborhood […]
Fly fisher folk who love Yellowstone’s Firehole River have been blessed with a bit of an extended spring / early summer season this year. It seems just as summer had rolled in and set up shop to stay, the area has enjoyed a burst of cooler weather. We had begun to rehearse our line that the […]
What a difference a single week can make in the life of a river in Yellowstone. The long, cool, wet spring weather we’ve enjoyed for the past couple of months is now giving way to summer like weather. Jake and I had a great afternoon on the Firehole last Friday; air temps were in the […]
Jake and I had the chance to run over to the Park on Friday afternoon; it was one of those last minute things after a business trip I had planned was cancelled at the last minute. We left Bozeman in bright sun and temps climbing through the 70s (enough to make a fat guy sweat) […]
For the most part the rainy (and sometimes snowy) weather thus far in June has kept the hatches rolling on the Firehole. Like the bugs and feeding fish, fisherfolk have been (and still are) plentiful. Flows have settled quite a bit over the past 2 days (412 cfs in the canyon this morning with today’s average […]
The Firehole River is in fine fettle at this point in mid-June. The crowds (relative) prove that fact. Flows remain well above seasonal norms for this time of year, and have been creeping upwards for most of the week – no matter, the river is still fishing very well. Looks like there’s a bigger spike […]
Part of me enjoys getting up before 5 to be on the road early in order to catch an early morning hatch. Part of me also truly enjoys lingering over a country breakfast at the Running Bear (a strong contender for the best breakfast in West Yellowstone) – biscuits and gravy, sausage patties, eggs over easy, a […]
Fly fishing on the Firehole has continued to improve this week, helped greatly by the cool, cloudy weather. Not only has the cool weather slowed the melt and brought river levels down as you can see; the clouds have provided great cover for the mayflies. Fishing has border on good to great depending on when […]
Granted, we (I) spend probably too much time writing about the Firehole; it is and shall remain one of my favorite rivers on the face of the planet. It will never be a ‘trophy fish’ water – but you have to admit, there aren’t many like it around. Water levels are still high, though the […]
For many Yellowstone loving fly fisher folk around the world, fishing Yellowstone means fishing the Firehole. Many of us conjure up images like the one above. For many of us who cling to romantic notions of fishing the Park on the first and last days of the season and many in between, the Firehole is […]
Wouldn’t it be great to standing in the Firehole today? With the weather due the next few days, wouldn’t at all be surprised to hear of a few olives on the Firehole even this early. Of course the Park season doesn’t open until the morning of the 23rd of May; we’ll have the first update […]
