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Yellowstone Park 9-13-16

September 13, 2016
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Yellowstone Park

Because of the Berry fire flaring up again along the John D. Rockefeller Memorial Parkway between Grand Teton and Yellowstone Parks, the south entrance road has been closed again.  Slough Creek campground and surroundings remain closed because of the Buffalo fire. When we receive info on these areas re-opening we will post such here.  The Norris Junction-Mammoth Hot Springs Road will re-open 7 AM, October 7th.

With respect to fishing, cooler weather means the Firehole River is offering improving conditions for fishing. Patterns for BWOs and caddis life cycle phases along with those for terrestrial insects will bring action. Hebgen Lake browns and rainbows are showing up in the Madison River, so streamer and large soft hackled patterns should be in the fly box.  On most other streams terrestrial insect patterns will bring best chances for action until a killing frost happens.

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Yellowstone Park 9-10-16

September 10, 2016
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Yellowstone Park

If you intend to fish any of the Park streams that run through meadows, the choice of flies this time of year is easy.Take terrestrial insect patterns with an emphasis on those of hoppers. All of these: Bechler River, Boundary Creek, Duck Creek, Fall River, Gibbon River, Lamar River, Lewis River, Madison River, Slough Creek, Snake River, Soda Butte Creek, and others hosting large fish that relish hoppers this time of year.  If you arrive early in the day on some of these, look for trico swarms and fish actively feeding.

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South Fork 9-10-16

September 10, 2016
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South Fork

Since our last South Fork fishing report (9-6-16) flow out of Palisades Dam has been dropped about 2000 cfs. It now stands at about 7300 cfs which is about normal for this time of year. Allow a day or two and fish will adjust to this significant flow drop and respond to mutant stoneflies with full interest, will do the same to hopper patterns, and provide good riffle fishing. There has been a repeat of the 2012 whitefish kill on the river. Whether the cause is the same as the recent one on the Yellowstone River is yet to be determined.

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Henry’s Fork 9-10-16

September 10, 2016
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Henry's Fork

Almost anywhere you try the river (excepting Box Canyon where two-nymph rigs bring action) early AM tricos then mid day hopper activity can be expected to bring most reliable action from resident trout.  We are cooling down, so significant BWO and mahogany dun emergences up and down the river are in the near future. Weather predictions are for some stormy weather this coming week, so these could happen within a few days.

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Small Streams 9-10-16

September 10, 2016
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Small Streams

We note that the flow out of Blackfoot River Reservoir was reduced significantly early today. Flow at the Shelley gauge is 128 cfs. Whether the flow stays at this level or not remains to be seen, but if it does, good fishing conditions are coming to the river about a month early. We will keep watch on how this develops. Meanwhile although the river above the reservoir is quite low, water temperatures are ideal. This makes for fish responding well to early AM trico activity and later in the day to terrestrial insect activity

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Small Streams 9-6-16

September 6, 2016
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Small Streams

Many of our small streams are impacted by the hot dry summer and therefore have lower than normal flows for this time of year. Given that condition, they heat up more quickly during daytime hours resulting in less dense aquatic insect hatches and lower fish activity.  Thus the best time to fish these can be during morning hours when waters are coolest. Some of these streams feature morning trico spinner falls which adds to their early in the day attraction.

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Henry’s Fork 9-6-16

September 6, 2016
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Henry's Fork

With respect to the lower river, the best thing is happening.  That is the weather cooling down which means sooner or later BWOs and mahogany duns will be emerging. On the river in the Last Chance-Riverside portion it’s still the same: morning trico spinners and terrestrial insect activity by late morning into afternoon hours are the best times to find action.

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South Fork 9-6-16

September 6, 2016
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South Fork

The stormy day we had on Sunday produced a BWO emergence in the canyon and below. So  it looks like the BWO and Mahogany dun activity is getting a start. Riffle fishing seems to be slowing, but with these events it can pick up.  Currently presenting soft hackled patterns in the riffles may bring a better chance for action.

The flow out of Palisades Dam has been consistent (about 9500 cfs) for several days, Consider, however that the thermal effect of water coming out of the dam during draw-down times, like now, diminishes by the time flow reaches Heise. This means the river can be cooler in its lower portion which can impact the density of aquatic insect hatches.

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Yellowstone Park 9-3-16

September 3, 2016
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Yellowstone Park

The south entrance is now open. The lightning caused 7000 acre Buffalo Fire, northeast of Tower Junction, has closed day use of the Slough Creek area including primitive camp sites and Slough Creek Campground.  Access to Duck Creek is impacted by the Boundary Fire north of West Yellowstone.

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Henry’s Fork 9-3-16

September 3, 2016
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Henry's Fork

Not a lot of change since our last report.  From Last Chance to Riverside early AM trico spinner patterns AM bring action.  Then as the day progresses presenting terrestrial patterns, especially those of the honey ant takes over for the same. We need more cool weather for fish activity to pick up on the river below Ashton Dam.

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