See you next season.
River – YNP – Soda Butte Creek
Given the following graph, we’d probably tend to agree with the guys from Park’s about Soda right now – technically she’s still fishable, but check out the water temps over the past few days…… There’s another blast of cold weather on the way in late this weekend and into next week that must might be […]
For the second week in a row most of our crew has been chained to the real world and not been able to make the trek to the northeast corner of the Park, even though it’s less than three hours away. Looks like today’s weather calls for hot and windy conditions ahead of one of […]
Soda continues to draw a crowd, particularly along the lowermost section of the river above the Lamar confluence (no surprises here). One of the things we like about the northeast corner now is that there are a host of bugs you have a chance of encountering on the river. You need to be ready for […]
Being perfectly honest (which is of course very difficult for most fishermen to do) – I don’t know the details right now; most of my fishing comrades in arms have been shying away from the northeast corner due to the crowds, though that is soon to change for the better. We’ll do some fishing around […]
Fishing on the northeast corner waters is still pretty much a “wow” experience. While general tourist traffic in the Park is definitely on the downswing, there are still impressive crowds of intent fly anglers plying the Soda Butte and its neighbors. Flows are very healthy for this time of year, and in addition to the […]
The report from Soda Butte today is pretty much on line with what’s happening on Slough as well – crowds are down a bit (though there are still lots of folks around) and the creek is fishing well. The pile of work on my desk killed my northeast corner day this week; had I made […]
A friend who spent years in the Park working for various concessionaires (mainly at Tower and Roosevelt) has spent over two decades of summers fishing the northeast corner of the Park. When he says it’s been insanely crowded over here we sit up and take notice. No doubt there is some fishing to be done […]
While many of us may love to watch a boisterous thunderstorm roll by, locals often cringe at the boomers rolling out of the mountain country. August thunderstorms start fires (and we’ve had an unbelievably quite fire season thus far this year in the greater Yellowstone area) and can dump localized rains that blow out area […]
Soda Butte never ceases to amaze me this time of year; at first glance you’d think it would never stand up to the pressure that it receives – yet it typically produces some very fine fishing. This year is no exception, though we’ve talked to a hoard of folks who have fished it in the […]
Soda Butte is coming into its prime. Flows are coming down, water is clearing up, and there are lots of bugs hatching with abandon. Not much as changed hatch-wise since last week. PMDs and drakes are key hatches, with evening caddis being pretty prolific. Terrestrials are becoming an ever more important part of the […]
Soda Butte is still running quite a bit higher than her ‘normal’ level for this time of year, though flows have been dropping pretty consistently over the past week; frankly it’s been nice once again to have been spared the heavy rains this week. The bulk of mayflies present are Drakes and PMDs, with evening […]
Soda has been looking better this week and will be in much better shape by the end of next week. It’s still high and cold, even running out of its banks in places, and a reliable report from a very good friend on Thursday suggested there wasn’t much insect activity rolling along just yet. Soda […]
Nope. Not Yet.
Still a lot of snow to come out in the high country back here – flows are still running above average as you can see. Fishable in 2 weeks?????
