Yelllowstone National Park, August 14th, 2021

Beula Lake

The park’s version of hoot owl closures remain on all streams. Lakes are exempt from this closure. Likely the best lake in the park for successful fishing is Beula Lake. If you can pack a flotation device with waders and fins plus fishing gear 2.5 miles off the Ashton-Flagg Road, you can encounter Yellowstone cutthroat trout here ranging to trophy size. Speckled dun, cinnamon caddis, damsel fly life cycle, small leech and scud patterns will bring action. A floating line, 4-5 weight system, 3-4 X, 9′ leader are ideal size gear for this lake that sits at around 7300 ft in elevation. Hering Lake is a few hundred yards to the south and holds the same trout in fewer numbers, but larger in size. You will not find the crowded conditions here seen so much on streams in the northeast corner and other places in the park where roadside or back country waters attract so many enthusiasts.