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August 19, 2011

Hopper Time

Finally, August 18th we’re starting to see more hoppers in the morning guide boxes.  Midnight stones, caddis, flying ants, spruce moths, stonefly nymphs, caddis beadheads, and streamers are all working on the Yellowstone as well.  The dry fly fishing up high has been lights out, but unfortunately crowded as well.  Expect to see 30 rigs…

August 15, 2011

Yellowstone River Trout Fishing

The Yellowstone River is now fishing well from top to bottom with nymphs, streamers and dry flies.  The river is still green, with visibility between 2 and 3 feet.  The river is currently flowing at 5650 in town. In general dry fly fishing has been more consistent in the valley with hoppers, nocturnal stones, attractors…

August 12, 2011

Salmonflies in the Yellowstone Park

We had a great day fishing inside Yellowstone Park fishing with salmonflies and goldenstone patterns.  We saw about 2 dozen naturals, many of which were towards the end of their life cycle.  The native cutthroat were definitely looking up for dries, (although we caught most of our fish on smaller size 8 rubberleg nymphs).  We…

August 11, 2011

Summer is here…

  The Yellowstone has been on fire this week, with big fish eating nymphs and streamers.  Now is a great time to get out and go for a big one.  The fish are still on the banks and are actively looking for food.  Our advice?   Make you fly look like the “slow kid at…

August 9, 2011

Big Browns finally eating

  Right now the water clarity is perfect for fooling big fish.  If you like to chuck and duck with either streamers or big nymphs, you should be fishing right now.  The only other time we get such optimal windows of “green is good” water color is after a rain, when the river is clearing…

August 6, 2011

Private Lakes

Now that the Yellowstone is finally in good shape the local and private lakes have finally started to come back strong. During the month of July there was a lot of pressure on many of these lakes, with anglers on them almost everyday.  Now that the fishing pressure has slowed down the fish are back…

August 5, 2011

Lower Yellowstone

We’ve had lots of folks ask us about the Lower Yellowstone.  We’ve had mixed reports but all agree there is A LOT of water down there with some dangerously big waves.  Yesterday guides did very well and landed several nice fish.  Today the morning was a little slow, most likely due to a brewing storm…

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