Yellowstone Park 6-27-15

Here’s an FYI for folks wanting to use floatation devices on Park still waters and using the Park West Entrance. Floatation boat permits and inspections are no longer available at the West Yellowstone Visitor’s Center.  The nearest they are available is at the Old Faithful Backcountry Ranger Office.

We took float tubes into Shoshone Lake via the Delacey Creek trail yesterday. The lake is low with warmer than normal water (48 deg. F.). Submerged weed beds are not very numerous.  Juvenile lake trout responded well to black leech and various steamer patterns featuring black and yellow. The Firehole River is warming, and fewer fly-fishers are trying it as a result.  Not many fly-fishers were on the Madison along the West Entrance Road also suggesting slower fishing.