Gallatin River - Tue, Aug 23rd

The Gallatin continues to fish well with spruce moth dries during the morning and late afternoon into the evening. There has also been a fair amount of caddis out during those periods in both tan or darker colors. After the sun gets off the water in the evenings there have been some really good hatches of PMD’s that the fish have been exclusively locking onto. Nymphing as always remains the best method on the Gallatin. Stonefly nymphs with small beadheads off the back as always have been the money makers. I’ve talked to a few people who have caught some bigger fish in the mornings stripping sculpins along the bottom.

As an interesting side note a friend of the shop pulled a Grayling from the lower reaches of the canyon the other day. This is the first report of a Graying coming out of that part of the Gallatin in several years. It’s good to hear there’s a few left in there!