River – YNP – Yellowstone

It is going to be a while yet.  Sigh.

See you in the Canyons in three to four weeks, and below the Lake on the 15th of July.

The flow gage on the Yellowstone River as it leaves Yellowstone Lake has been moving up all week – there’s now an impressive volume of water moving through.  The lower Grand and Black Canyons were marginal last weekend and are long gone now.  See you below the outlet on the 15th of July.

If Spock were standing with you today analyzing the opening day potential of the Yellowstone River in the Park, he’d damned well probably say ‘interesting’.  As you’d expect for this time of year and given the past week’s weather, flows have been gradually increasing all week out of the still closed to fishing (15 June) […]

Though the Yellowstone River (YNP) opener is really a tad over three months away, we’ve heard some pub talk this year of expectations of a better cutthroat year.    A variety of reasons for such prognostications  have been discussed over burgers and beer, and while our immediate reaction is that predictions such as these are […]