Yellowstone National Park, September 4th, 2024
Give the Firehole River a few more days of cool weather. Longer nights will help bring water temperatures back to where there will be less catch and release stress on hosted salmonids. Northeast corner streams (Slough and Soda Butte Creeks, Lamar River) are at base level flows and have many visiting fly fishers. Stealth is required on these three meadow streams for any measure of fishing success. As with so many streams in the area, flying ants are now a top insect for foraging trout. These comments also apply to Fall River Basin streams except that a lot fewer fly fishers are in attendance.
Flies to fish: