The Gallatin (YNP) has continued to produce fish for those willing to adapt their techniques a bit.  The Park section of the Gallatin is pretty skinny in terms of flows right now, and the most successful angler is walking a bit to cover some ground.  Stealth plays well up here these days, and you should be able to fish most (if not all) of this water from the bank. 

Flows this morning (0645) are 382 cfs at Gallatin Gateway, with today’s average 472 cfs, the river was stained yesterday as we travelled to and from the Park, it was still rising when we saw it last, and so it’s probably off a bit more today.  Of note - most of the muck was entering at Taylor Fork, so the Park section should be in decent shape even today.  (The day is dawning bright and clear here in Bozeman).

Like on most of the waters in the region at this point, the summer hatches are long gone- BWOs have been more prominent with the favorable weather we’ve had this past week off and on, and should be around this week as well.
You might still see pockets of increasingly sparse  Caddis in the afternoons (in the Park section they have been small and black).

If the weather forecast holds and it’s cloudy and overcast  for much of the upcoming week, we’d probably throw a streamer / nypmh set up in the morning and look for BWOs to come off.  The streamer / nymph set up might even carrry the day for you - we still favor an olive or black woolly bugger (fairly small), though Yellowstone Spruce Flies, JJs, and soft hackles have been drawing attention too. 

On the sunnier, warmer fall days, starting the day with a streamer/nymph or double nymph set up would make sense; we’d still probable chase BWOs if they were out, or plan to cover some ground working streamers along undercut banks.

Terrestrials are probably about done - we’d carry the box one more week or so (its due to be in the low 60s and sunny today);  the cold mornings should have about wiped these guys out by now.

The scenery is great these days - we drove back to Bozeman in a raging snowshower through this section yesterday, and we’ve kept our coyote streak alive - seeing bushy coyotes in the Fawn Pass area every time we’ve been up this way for the past few weeks (multiple yesterday).

The Gallatin below the Park is fishing well also, we’ll update the Gallatin outside the Park in the morning (Monday) at Best Fly Fishing Montana.

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Flies to Have in the Box

Dries:  baetis - BWO, Blue Dun, Olive Sparkle Dun, Para-adams, Comparadun; Caddis - EHC, X Caddis, - tan, olive, black; your attractor package.

Nymphs: Mega Prince, Copper John, red, blue; Rubberlegs, olive and brown; Hares Ear; San Juan worm, red, brown; BHFBPT; ; Lightning bug, gold, silver, green /olive; Soft hackles

Terrestrials: Hoppers - Grand, tan, yellow; Dave’s; Para Hopper; Beetles - Fire, Foam, HiVis, Krystal Leg; Ants - Wilcox Glo Ant, CDC winged, epoxy, brown /cinnamon /black

Streamers / Other: Woolly buggers, olive, brown, black; Sparkle Buggers - olive, brown, black; Girdle bug; smaller sizes; Kiwi Muddler

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