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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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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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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Enter our “Rudie Can’t Fail” photo contest! Enter early and often! First, the basics. Submit a photo of a fish that you caught on a Rude Trude. It’s that simple (sorta)! The Rude Trude fly itself should also be in the picture (that electric pink parachute […]
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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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The Yellowstone River continues to fish well, both in the Paradise Valley and downstream of Livingston. There should be no clarity issues anywhere on the river this weekend (yippee, no “where’s the mud” calls today). There’s just a touch of green, and on the Yellowstone, “green […]
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Please join us at Sweetwater Fly Shop this coming Saturday (Aug. 5), 5:30-7:30 p.m., for a FREE BBQ to help celebrate the start of what should be the best-fishing August in years on the Yellowstone River! We’ll be serving up burgers, sausages, and dogs, as well […]
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We’re pretty darn excited about how good the fly fishing on the Yellowstone River is likely to be this August! As of mid-July, the Yellowstone is still relatively high and is just now coming into shape for really good fishing, particularly with dry flies. Those good […]
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Yesterday, we made a post about a project to save struggling Cutthroat in Hyalite Creek. We are happy to say the project was an overwhelming success. Roughly 6 volunteers from the surrounding Bozeman area gathered at FWP headquarters at 8am this morning. After coffee and introductions, […]
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