Ask me why I love fall fishing in Yellowstone Country. Is it big streamers for big browns, tiny fall baetis mayflies on the Paradise Valley spring creeks, solitude in Yellowstone National Park? Is it ‘hopper action without the crowds, cooler weather, cooler water and re-energized fish? […]
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Why I Choose Smith Optics and Suncloud for Fishing Around Livingston by Max Smith and Matt Swan Fishing around Livingston means dealing with a variety of water conditions—from the gin-clear spring creeks like DePuy’s and Armstrong’s to the bigger, often murkier Yellowstone River. On the Yellowstone, […]
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The Yellowstone River is soon to be big and muddy, Throughout the state of Montana, and particularly in the Yellowstone watershed, we received a good amount of high-mountain snow this past winter. All of that snow needs to melt and make it through our rivers and […]
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Hi, this is Dan Gigone from Sweetwater Fly Shop in Livingston, Montana. We’re right on the banks of the world famous Yellowstone River and around this time of year, late April into early May, we start getting a lot of phone calls, people just asking, are […]
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If you’ve never seen a real Mother’s Day Caddis hatch on the Yellowstone, let me try to describe it—though I’ll fail, of course. Words rarely do it justice. Imagine a spring afternoon that smells like wet cottonwoods and melting snow, the river moving fast but not […]
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If there’s a single fly that best represents summer dry fly fishing on the Yellowstone River in the last decade, it’s the Chubby Chernobyl. It’s the epitome of the modern attractor dry, big, foamy, visible, and available in just about every color combination you can […]
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This is pretty darn cool, if I do say so myself! Check out our new Sweetwater Intel Center, which is chock full of useful info about all things fly fishing in the Greater Yellowstone region! It’s got fishing reports, links to weather and river flows, fly […]
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“A Dry Hook Has Never Caught a Fish” Paradise Valley Fishing Report for the week of March 7, 2023 By Jan Axtell Yellowstone River Much of the river is still locked with ice making access tricky. Use caution on shelf ice. Boat access is limited at […]
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What, you’ve never fished in Yellowstone National Park? Shame on you! Here’s a short article on fly fishing in the Park, due to be published in the spring. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions as you plan your visit to the […]
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Intermittent snow squalls on DePuy’s Spring Creek yesterday brought an unexpected drop in barometric pressure pushing through the Paradise Valley, which turned on feeding activity. Yesterday morning we found fish rising to emerging midges on the flats below Eva’s cabin at Depuy’s. These fish were feeding […]
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