Yellowstone Park, September 28th, 2024

The Firehole River continues to provide the best dry fly fishing in the Park with BWO and white miller activity and bank side terrestrial insect populations providing the reasons. Now that the northeast part of the park has drier weather, streams there are back in great shape with BWO, mahogany dun ( and some hecuba) mayflies along with hopper and ant populations making for good dry fly fishing. Much of the same applies to Fall River Basin streams which are now at base level flows making stealth necessary for top water fishing success.

Brown trout runs in the Madison River are increasing but so are the number of pursuing anglers using deep running streamer and large soft hackle patterns with success mostly early and late during the warm, sunny days. Brown trout are also staging to move into the Lewis River channel between Lewis and Shoshone lakes to provide result in the famed fall run that attracts world wide fly fishers.