Rigging on the Firehole late Wednesday afternoon we noticed a small bull bison had drifted in out of the trees just across the road from the car. Neither party flinched as we rigged and he grazed on down the road – there were white miller caddis coming off and we sure as hell weren’t leaving…..
Firehole
To be brutally honest I haven’t been in the main body of the Park for a week, and in particular haven’t spent any time on one of my favorite fall season rivers – The Firehole. One reason is that life has been a bit busy of late; one reason is that last week was much […]
Bright sunshine has been keeping the afternoon water temps on the lower river ‘toasty’ despite the cool mornings, as you can see from the temp chart (from near the Madison confluence) water temps have still been pushing 72 (save for yesterday). Caddis are still rolling off in the afternoons, best above Midway, though when we […]
Ever have one of those days where the harder you try to solve a problem the further the solution seems to run away? That was my day yesterday. We had an early start around my camp around 0500 as She Who Must Be Obeyed was up early to meet Jess and hit the road for […]
Nice thought, but I doubt it. Friend and foes in the neighborhood were debating at a gathering yesterday evening whether or not this week’s weather will mark the turn into the genuine fall season; more than one of us present tend to think first of the Firehole when discussion of fall fishing in the neighborhood […]
Frankly there are a lot of places in and around the Park that offer much better fishing right (consider the Gallatin for example my friends), though we seem to get inquiries about the Firehole endlessly during the season. Morning water temps even on the lower Firehole have been looking better; this past week temps have […]
It’s clearly still August, albeit late August – in a ‘typical’ Yellowstone year that means it’s still summer but evidence the arrival of Fall is accumulating in the hills and along the river. The lower Firehole has even been teasing its followers a bit of late – water temperatures have been cooling somewhat and there […]
Scanning data on the computer this morning it’s a chilly 39 here in Bozeman and 29 in Island Park. I was talking with a friend in Austin yesterday who said it was a balmy 100 down there in the Lone Star State yesterday afternoon. What a contrast in temperatures and geography. Weather in the neighborhood […]
The Firehole River that most of us think of still needs a rest during these warmer days – think of it as siesta time for the Firehole. Fair game to wander onto the upper river above Old Faithful – though not many head that way this time of year (hint, hint).
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 […]
