In the Madison off Riverside Drive in the Park; caught a nifty passing storm to the west.
Madison (YNP)
One of my favorite fishing memories was a drive-all-night trip to Yellowstone with some college buddies that landed us on the Yellowstone River in the park, fishing caddis dries to rising cutthroat. The fish and the water were beautiful and I remember thinking to myself that I must to come back this place again and […]
Counting today there are just four more days left in the Park season. Four more days. Four more days in what has been one of the better ‘west side of the Park’ seasons in recent memory. The Madison continues to fish well to say the least. With 4-5 inches of snow in Bozeman this morning, […]
The Park section of the Madison continues to fish well during these last weeks of the YNP fishing season, and as you might guess, the pressure is beginning to wane a bit. The opening of the big game hunting season this weekend will likely knock the number of anglers down another notch or two yet […]
The Madison in the Park is still fishing quite well and, as is to be expected this time of year, is still pretty danged crowded. The story is pretty much what you’d expect to hear – olive and yellow streamers and soft hackles have been the most productive, and Baetis are still making an appearance […]
The Park section of the Madison has been in fine fettle this year, maybe fishing better this fall that it has in some years. Jake and I were in the Park yesterday believe it or not on business (really) and spied a fair number of anglers plying the Madison despite the bright (more or less) […]
The Madison in the Park has enjoyed one of the better Septembers in recent memory in terms of fun and productive fishing – there have been good numbers of runners (rainbows and browns) and active fishing despite the bright sunshine dominating the weather for almost the entire month. Speaking of weather – it has changed […]
The reports from the Madison in the Park are more and more encouraging; there are consistently more fish moving in despite Mother Nature’s offering of an almost summer like September thus far. Prime time continues to be early and late, with more of our circle of fisher folk fishing late in the day. Our most […]
So we’ve not been the only ones to notice that the Madison is getting a little crowded these days – there are lots of fly fisher folk trooping up, down and across many of the ‘traditional’ fall runner holes (Baker’s, Barns, Junction Pool, etc.) and even some of the ‘lesser’ runs all the way up […]
There’s no question that fish are beginning to move up, though clearly not in great numbers yet. Coolers nights, shortening days, better flows, higher Hebgen levels, cooler water all summer, alignment of the stars, gravitational fluxes – a veritable cascade of explanations have been offered as to the somewhat early start this year. Are there […]
The Park section of the Madison is kinda stuck in the middle of the transition from the summer to the early fall season (still). There’s no question that a few runners are starting to squiggle up into the river, and more are staging. Warm and sunny afternoons have made it feel like (late) summer is […]
We’re hearing more and more chatter about the Park section of the Madison beginning to wake up a bit from its summer siesta. Part of me wants to think it’s still summer, and in some respects it is – there’s lots of bright sunshine around, it’s still pretty danged warm most days (at least for […]
Just a couple of years ago this week during an outrageously hot and dry summer, the Park section of the Madison was a forbidden ghost town – the river was closed to fishing, flows were well below average, and the cool weather of fall seemed months away. Not so this year. A week or so […]
There’s better water in the Park right now – the Park section of the Madison is still quite warm due to the inputs from the lower Firehole and Gibbon. The relatively cool summer has kept the Madison alive and kicking in the Park with morning PMD (spotty) and more widespread Caddis activity, with terrestrials (small […]
The stretch of the Madison River inside Yellowstone, viewed by literally thousands of visitors every year as they enter YNP via the ever popular West Entrance Gate on the eastern edge of West Yellowstone, may be one of the most photographed of all the waters in the neighborhood. Jake and and I were on the […]
