This Yellowstone River report will be short and to the point. The last couple of days of hot temperatures have melted a lot of snow up high. You can see from the above picture of the flow gauge at Corwin Springs, above Yankee Jim Canyon, that […]
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The good news first. The water clarity is still quite good at Carter’s Bridge this morning. And the Mother’s Day Caddis were out in large numbers again yesterday. Oh, and it’s going to be a beautiful day to float or wade the river. That’s the good […]
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As of Wednesday evening, the Mother’s Day Caddis were thick on the Yellowstone River at least as far upstream as Point of Rocks. This morning, the water clarity was fine up in that area as well. However, flows are on their way up above Yankee Jim […]
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I’ll keep this short and sweet. Fly fishing on the Yellowstone River, including with dry flies, has been quite good the last couple of days. There have even been some caddis on the water, though to announce the start of the Mother’s Day hatch would be […]
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The Yellowstone River remains in good fishing shape, despite the rains we’ve had lately. Visibility at Carter’s Bridge this morning is at least a couple of feet, and there is no evidence of spikes higher upstream. So the positive conditions should continue, barring heavy rain later […]
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It’s been quite a while since my last Fly Zone entry on February 21, though Dan has continued to soldier on with his posts. My silence hasn’t been due to a lack of fishing or lack of a desire to write about it. It’s new product […]
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Suffering from dry-fly withdrawal? Now is the time to scratch that itch. The blue-winged olive (baetis) mayflies are hatching in good numbers on the Yellowstone River and the trout are eating the little bugs on the surface. Paul Weamer fished the hatch yesterday and the fish […]
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Spring baetis (Blue-Winged Olive) mayfly season is starting up on the Paradise Valley spring creeks, just up the road from Sweetwater Fly Shop. It’s one of my favorite times of year to fish the spring creeks. If you’ve never fished any of the spring creeks (or […]
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Paradise Valley was beautiful last week–it’s always beautiful, but mid 50’s air temps in February made it feel even nicer than usual. Yes, there was some wind; there’s always wind as spring struggles to overtake winter along the Rocky […]
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A couple weeks ago, I proclaimed winter’s half way point. Today I’m officially declaring the opening of Western Montana’s 2017’s trout fishing season. Warmer weather has eroded much of the ice that encased the Yellowstone for the last two months. On Sunday, we had customers in […]
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