Yesterday I ran down to Slough Creek in Yellowstone with my buddies Mike and Tracy. We all work at the same store back in Bozeman and had been planning the trip for a few days. And so, with it pouring rain, we left town at 7:00 am. It rained all the way to the Tower […]
Slough Creek
I’m leaving Bozeman this morning with friends at or before 7 to hit Slough Creek and maybe the Lamar or Pebble – if things work according to schedule we should be able to catch the Gray Drakes…. Mark will have the new camera on the Madison today, but I’ll try and get a bucket full of decent […]
Slough has really made the turn over the past week or so. Some of the best fishing on the year on Slough will happen in the next few weeks. Fish are hungry, bugs are plentiful and varied, and the fish haven’t been pounded into an ultra-wary state. An aside – it’s almost with a twinge […]
This should be the week for Slough to really start fishing. Caddis, PMDs, Stone flies will be on the menu. Even the water below the campground will fish this time of year. Big dark (black, dark brown) streamers will produce this time of year too; a black bugger with some flash worked for us at […]
The team at Park’s in Gardiner is reporting that Slough is now more green than brown; that should suggest that for those who just have to fish Slough you’ve now got a chance on streamers (think buggers) or big attractor nymphs. We’re not due big rains for a few days after the impressive rains that […]
If you were to drive into the Park today, head for the Tower area and wander northeastward up the Northeast Entrance road, and finally head north to the Slough Creek campground today (one of our favs) – you’d see some beautiful country and some tempting water right there by the campground. River flows in the northeast […]
I’ve now heard three different people describe the waters of the northeast corner as running “not quite thick enough to plow” over the past week or so. Typically coming into shape the first week of July or so, flows have been dropping this past week but the water has a long way to go. Though […]
Talked this week to a crowd averse, northeast corner fanatic who fished the first meadow on opening day. He report was less than ebullient about his experience last Saturday. In fact he talked much more about the critters he encountered (grizzly, bison, elk, deer, coyotes, wolves, otters, badgers, and sheep near Tower) than he did […]
High and dirty is the watchword for most of the waters in the hallowed northeast corner of Yellowstone. Given the relative cool of the past two days (and the cold nights) most of the rivers in the area flows have tempered just a bit. Both the Park’s shop report from their drive yesterday and a […]
Ever wonder how much snow piles up in the third meadow during the winter? Snow pack in the northeast corner sounds to be pretty decent this year, though not as massive as last year at this time. Pending weather we’re planning a fair amount of pre-season hiking and photography time in the northeast corner before […]
