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Yellowstone Park 7-5-2011

July 5, 2011
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Yellowstone Park

Firehole River remains star of the show in Park rivers with white millers and PMDs bringing most action. The Gibbon has cleared and lowered enough to offer good fishing.   Golden stones are around, and late evening brown drakes are bringing up fish in upper river meadow reaches. Duck Creek’s evening brown drake emergence is ongoing. The Madison River is fishing well during  AMs when PMDs are active, and evenings when caddisflies take over.   Shoshone Lake offers great fishing if you get out in the lake a ways with such as a boat or float tube.  Fish are scattered around the lake, but will soon move to weed beds as they grow and host more food.  For now, any small leech pattern will do.  Fall River Basin you ask?  The Ashton-Flagg Road is open, but trails to such as Beula Lake remain with snow.  All streams in the Basin are high with run-off.   Northeast corner of the park streams (Soda Butte, Lamar, Slough), too.  Kinda look like your AM coffee & cream.

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Henry’s Lake 7-5-2011

July 5, 2011
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Henry's Lake

Most reports have fishing improving here.  Much of the reason is active damselfly nymphs.   Look for the channels around weed beds to present your favorite damselfly nymph patterns. This is mainly a shallow water emergence, meaning lesser need to get to depths of the lake, so intermediate or slow sinking lines are the ticket.

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Small Streams 7-5-2011

July 5, 2011
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Small Streams

Any area stream that drains high country is full of run-off thanks to our recent hot weather.  This includes Grand Teton Range west slope drainages, Salt and Grey’s river drainages, Fall River Basin streams, and South Fork/Palisades Reservoir tribs.  Small streams that can be fished include Birch Creek (of course),  Tom’s Creek,  Chick Creek, Squirrel Creek, and  Warm River. This hot weather will mean run-off aplenty for a while yet, but when it ends the choice of quality small waters will be almost endless and each will offer great action.

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Yellowstone Park 7-2-2011

July 2, 2011
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Yellowstone Park

We walked into Shoshone Lake down the DeLacey trail yesterday packing float tubes to get out to weed beds where browns and juvenile mackinaw (macks) hang out.  Never have seen so much snow on the trail and water in Delacey Creek.  The first mile of trail is nearly half snow covered with drift remnants up to three feet deep. But trail is passable with a bit of blowdown. We got onto the lake and pitched wooly bugger types on full-sink lines and got into plenty of  macks ranging 17-22 inches.   Lake appeared to be in the turnover process as murky water prevented us from locating weed beds at about twenty foot depth, but it didn’t matter as fish seemed scattered all over resulting in hits almost everywhere except very near shoreline.  Nearly all Park streams remain high with several days of current warm weather needed to finish run off.   Lots of folks fishing the high and clear Firehole River. The Ashton-Flagg road remains closed form the Idaho side.

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Henry’s Fork 7/1

July 1, 2011
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Henry's Fork

Fishing on the Lower River is good as it can get. There are great hatches of Gray Drakes in the evenings, Flav’s Golden Stones, Pale morning Duns, Green Drakes and Caddis are bringing fish to the surface. The Gray Drakes and Caddis are working well during the evening hours of the Day. Goldens, Flavs and PMD’s have been working well during the day. I suspect the weekend to be fairly busy because the Henry’s is pretty much one of the only rivers fishing right now. To avoid crowds start early in the morning with Streamers and fish the dries as the day gets warmer. I personally would put in about lunch and fish till dark.

On the Upper River, flows on the Box Canyon were dropped today 1,000 cfs down to 1120 cfs. Give this section about a day for the fish to get reorganized with that large of a decrease in the flows. The ranch has some Drakes hatching but most of the fish being caught on the Ranch have been during the late and evening hours. PMD’s and Caddis have also been good on the Ranch.

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South Fork 7/1

July 1, 2011
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South Fork

I wanted to add to Jimmy’s report from yesterday. The Outfitter that I guide for had 5 boats on the South Fork yesterday. They had boats through both sections of the canyon and the upper stretch. There is a hatch of Yellow Sallies beginning to hatch on the river. One of the boats fished dry flies all day yesterday and caught 2 fish. The other boats fished nymphs and caught many more fish. Whitefish and trout have been the mix on the nymphs.

So here is the deal. Despite the color of the water the South Fork is actually pretty fishable right now, despite the less than marginal conditions the water is in. I have been told the streamer fishing is pretty good right now, hit it in the mornings and evenings. Nymphing is a different game right now. Typically we would be throwing size 4 or 6 rubberlegs with a #14 or 16 beadhead dropper. With the dirty water I would fish a Orange Rubbeleg size 4, with a #12 Pheasant tail or a #10 prince nymph. Copper Johns and San Juan worms are working as well. However the key is to fish the larger fly in the dirty water.

As Jimmy mentioned things are really unpredictable right now. We all want the inflows to decrease but we have a few days of super warm weather headed our way. Once that is over we should have a better indication of what will happen with the flows. Keep you fingers crossed, hope, pray or whatever that the inflows into Palisades will begin to decrease. As Jimmy mentioned we will keep you updated as things change. Questions, please feel free to call the shop.

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South Fork 6-30-11

June 30, 2011
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South Fork

South Fork (what we would like it to be)

The flow is steady at 12,000 cfs and clear. The big stones are out around Twin Bridges in good numbers. Heavy hatches of yellow sallies, golden stones and pale morning duns are in the riffles. Some green drakes in the late afternoon. If you want to get a head start on the crowds consider launching before daylight and fish streamers against the bank until the sun comes over the canyon rim.

South Fork (what it really is)

The flow is 15,000 cfs and very off color. There are good hatches of yellow sallies and some golden stones but the fish are not looking up and probably won’t until the water clears some. We have been fishing san juan worms, bennetts rubber legs with a small nymph dropper with fair success on trout and good success on whitefish.  On the lower river below Heise the flow is 9,000 cfs and there are more places to get out and fish.

There is 32,000 cfs running in to Palisades Reservoir and at this rate the reservoir will fill around July 11th. We are hoping that the inflow will drop  so that inflow will match outflow by the 11th. Please hope with us. Meanwhile we’ll continue to monitor the flows and pass along any additional information we get.

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Southwestern Montana 6-29-2011

June 29, 2011
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South Western Montana

High water has slowed fishing in Clark Canyon Reservoir.  Midging in water around ten feet deep brings some action. Best fishing on the Madison River  is between Hebgen and Quake lakes, but half the world’s fly-fishers are there.  The Beaverhead River is good fishing thanks to PMD and yellow sally activity.   Giant stoneflies are out on the Big Hole River.

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Small Streams 6-29-2011

June 29, 2011
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Small Streams

At last some are beginning to shape up.  Beaver and Camas creeks are worth fishing.  So are Tincup and other creeks flowing out of Idaho into the Salt River.  Try beadhead nymphs, San Juan worm, and wooly bugger variations. On July 1st several South Fork tributaries open to fishing.  Post spawning cutts to big sizes are likely to be in Bear and McCoy creeks.  Woolly buggers and small streamers should interest these fish. If you are looking for small brookies, try Tom’s and Chick creeks at the top of the Buffalo River, Squirrel Creek, and upper Warm River.

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