The Yellowstone River at Carter’s Bridge looks surprisingly good this morning, considering the crazy weather we’ve had lately. It’s green, but with at least a couple of feet of visibility. That makes it plenty clear to fish nymphs and streamers and maybe even have some dry […]
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We’ve been giving away a bunch of FREE Rude Trude dry flies here at Sweetwater Fly Shop! Have you picked up a few (or a few dozen) yet? Have you fished them? Have you caught fish on them? If you answered “no” to those questions, it’s […]
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We’re still getting good, if not great, fishing reports about the Yellowstone River from our guides and customers. Our own recent fishing experiences match up with that assessment. For better or worse, the best bite has sometimes been in the morning and sometimes in the afternoon. […]
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Yesterday, Paul and I checked out a stretch of the Gardner River in Yellowstone National Park that we hadn’t fished before. The scenery was spectacular and the water gorgeous. The fly fishing action was less than scintillating on this particular day, but all of the attributes […]
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Hoppers are the terrestrials that get most of the press these days. And to be sure, the trout on the Yellowstone River continue to eat a boatload (pun intended) of various hopper patterns, though perhaps not as greedily as they did a couple of weeks ago. […]
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The way that the Lamar River flows skyrocketed after the heavy rains the other night, we were expecting it to dump a ton of mud into the Yellowstone River by today. Well, if such an event happened, it’s sure doing a good job of hiding itself. […]
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You’ve undoubtedly already read about the Rude Trude and about our “Rudie Can’t Fail” photo contest in our previous Fly Zone posts. Perhaps you’ve even picked up your FREE DOZEN FLIES from us here at Sweetwater Fly Shop (if you haven’t yet, you’d better come in […]
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The Yellowstone River continues to fish very well with hoppers, Chubbys, other attractor dries, and smaller terrestrials (and nymph droppers, if you don’t want to go “dry or die”). When the conditions are just right (warm, a bit breezy), you will still find trout stacked up […]
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So says a text from Sweetwater Fly Shop guide Jan Axtell, who is out with clients this morning on the Yellowstone River in the Paradise Valley. Don’t let them have all the fun to themselves today. Get out there while the getting is good! Thanks, Jan, […]
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Update: The “Rudie Can’t Fail” photo contest details and rules are now posted! Read about the Rude Trude below, then click here to learn how you could win glory and prizes just by catching a fish on a Rude Trude (perhaps easier said than done), taking […]
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