I can’t explain it - but we’ve had requests today on both sites to show what we’re using for a Yuk Bug pattern - it’s nothing fancy, and we’ve had our best luck of late with olive color, with prominent, wiggly legs.  We have them in black, brown, yellow, and with a black back and […]

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“Calling Fly Fishing a hobby is like calling Brain Surgery a job.” -Paul Schullery
This is how we do brain surgery up here in Montana, and the picture speaks further to two important characteristics of Montanans.  We don’t visit neurosurgeons very often.  And we love our chainsaws. 
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Thanks so much for your interest in and support of Best Fly Fishing Yellowstone through the summer and fall.
We’ve just finished what has been our busiest month of the site’s young life.  Our stat program takes about 36 hours to finish compiling all the site visit statistics, so this isn’t the final word on October […]

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The Gallatin (YNP) has been fishable again this past week, though skinny water still mandates very stealthy, careful dry fly fishing, and you’ve definitely got to walk a bit to find pools and runs deep enough to nymph.
Flows this morning (0645) are 399 cfs at Gallatin Gateway, with today’s average 417 cfs. 
Nymphs and streamers certainly […]

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Just in time to encourage those mourning the impending end of the Yellowstone season - Peter F. sent in this nice pic of a very healthy looking Shields brown taken within the past few weeks, and he also provided an interesting comment about a recent excursion to the upper Big Hole….
Here is a pic of […]

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The Lamar has been off much of the past week due to the effects of last week’s rain and snow; recent rains have put yet again more water in the river, though the flow spike is not as big as the last push on the 25th and 26th. 
Flows measured near the Tower Ranger today at […]

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