Continuing our series on BWO strategies….
One of the best tips my fishing mentor gave me several years ago, after being frustrated chasing Tricos and Pseudos on the Missouri, was to learn to fish the backeddies well. 
Think about it - backeddies are like a rotating buffet table for trout, circulating all sorts of interesting bugs around […]

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A friend called me today from Boston and asked how many more days there are to fish in the Park (he’s not too up on the Yellowstone scene).
I hadn’t really put any thought to it - but there are actually only 30 fishing days left counting today (!) before the Park closes to fishing on […]

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All of the rivers in the Park (even the Yellowstone River at the lake outlet) that have an internet readable flow gauge have spiked today, not surprisingly given the rainfall / snowfall amounts of the past 24 to 30 hours.  Flows on the Lamar have more than doubled - it’s blown, and no doubt Soda Butte and Slough are […]

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Most of the Park has received significant moisture through the night - rain and snow.  By radar just now (about 0825) there is a large mass of snow and freezing rain west of the Park in eastern most Idaho - it’s moving very slowly north / northeast.  Interestingly there were some breaks in the cloud […]

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The Firehole has been looking better and better of late, and low and behold there’s even a little more water in the river today.
The Firehole’s flow rate today at 0500 near Madison junction was 332 cfs, with today’s mean 279 cfs.  Flows started up around midnight on the 4th (Thursday) and are still headed up […]

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Slough Creek has continued to slow a bit, and has offered pretty challenging fishing for those venturing to its banks.
There’s no flow gauge on Slough Creek, so there is no flow data to follow  - clarity will in all likelihood be an issue today (and for several more) given the recent rain and snow - […]

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