Yesterday Mark and I drove through the Gallatin Canyon on the way to West Yellowstone to meet with John Juracek before his trip to England. The number of folks fishing the Gallatin was impressive – there were people on the water from the confluence with Fan Creek basically all the way down through the Canyon. […]
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Due to all the rain in recent days, the Gallatin has blown back out. Taylor Fork is pumping a lot of mud into the rivers, as are all of the feeder creeks and tribs. Flows have bumped back up almost to the 80th percentile. Clarity is gone, all of several inches right now. Before the […]
The Gallatin is about to enter its prime. Flows are coming down, and visibility is improving. Yesterday when I drove over it, the river definitely had that greenish tint that signifies the coming end of runoff. It’s really great being able to post a flow chart that shows the water coming down, not shooting up! […]
Back on the 18th of June a post I wrote about living the pedestrian life as the family black sheep resonated with a fair number of our readers – it would seem that a fair number of fly fishing folks out there live black sheep, pedestrian lives as well. Welcome to the fold. Those of […]
The Gallatin is shaping up. Water is dropping, and the fish are really coming to life. Clarity is up over a foot now in most places. Mark and I drove out to Williams Bridge yesterday to get a look at her, but forgot the damn camera. Salmonflies and golden stones are coming off in the […]
Yesterday, Mark and I had to run over to Missoula and got a chance to eyeball some of the waters in the area. The Gallatin, at least the lower reaches of it, is blown out again. The water is high and dirty. Last Saturday all of us drove down to the Park, driving along the […]
The Gallatin has had an interesting week. Several days ago, Mark and I drove up the canyon a ways and were surprised at how much better the water looked. Not perfect by any means, but not chocolate milk either. The rain over the past few days is starting to filter down to the river, which […]
The Gallatin, while not optimal, is certainly fishable. Flows are down almost 1,700 cfs from their high earlier this week. The water is still pretty dang muddy, but it is clearing up some. I know we have been putting up a lot of flow charts lately, but it is a relief to show one with […]
The Gallatin is still blownout. I wouldn’t count on fishing the river for at least several more weeks. However, if this cool snap does indeed stick around all week like the weathermen are projecting, the upper reaches of the river might clear just enough to warrant a fishing trip. If the jeep wasn’t experiencing some mechanical […]
The Gallatin is still completely blown out. Flows are almost 4,000 cfs this morning at Gallatin Gateway and will be rising throughout the day. The river near Logan is expected to flood either later today or in the next few days. Even the upper river above Taylor Fork is pretty dirty. It will be a […]
Twice yesterday I had to go look at the Gallatin. As you can tell from the pictures we put up last night, she is high and very muddy. In fact, she looked out of her banks at the mouth of the canyon. The river below there is only going to be worse. The Gallatin isn’t […]
In keeping with our Star Trek theme today – the Gallatin mid-morning from the Williams Bridge, upstream and downstream views. The quick assessment – It’s Dead, Jim.
We here at Chi Wulff have been hearing some disturbing rumblings throughout our network of contacts. These rumblings consist of one word: runoff. It seems that several folks we know and trust are saying that runoff on the Gallatin is here, or at least very close. The cooler weather has helped to slow it down […]
Mark and I just got back from another delightful afternoon on the Gallatin. We took his advice and decided to risk fishing on Mother’s Day. After some deliberation about destination, as there usually is, the Gallatin Canyon won out over other choices. Neither one of us had been up there in the past few weeks […]
Mark and I, as we often do on days when work in the real world seems overwhelming, decided to make a quick run out to the Gallatin this evening. We ended up hitting several of our favorite spots in hopes of clearer water, but the whole river is pretty muddy right now. The fishing was […]
