YNP Reports

         Yellowstone Park is closed to fishing until Memorial Day Weekend 2012. 

            This Sunday is the last day of the season for fishing in the park.  This will be the last chance to catch a big brown on the Madison if you don’t mind the cold, snow and wind.  The Firehole will have good Baetis hatches if you want to get some

         Brown Trout have moved up into the Madison from Hebgen Lake.  Crowds of fisherman have been lined up in the more popular runs.  Swinging soft hackles in riffles or nymphing deeper holes is the best shot at harassing spawning browns.  Streamer fishing is only good when the weather is especially nasty and fresh fish

Slough Creek is low and tough right now.  If you head over there you will no doubt see plenty of really nice fish that aren’t interested in eating, especially your flies.  This will no doubt change as the weather cools and especially with some nice over cast weather.  Soda Butte has not fished that well either.   The plus side

We’re still waiting on the fall run fish to start eating on the Madison in the Park.  We had friends that fished it pretty hard this weekend and found the fishing to be very slow.  It sounds like the Firehole is a much better bet.  It is now definitely an all day option with fish rising to Baetis and caddis.

Fishing in the Park should really start to pick up as the temperatures drop.  Fall hatches should start as soon as we get the right weather (cool and overcast).  There should be more fall run fish eating with the same conditions.  For right now there is still some excellent terrestrial fishing to be had in pretty much all corners of the Park.

Don’t be surprised if you saw some people fishing in the Park without reels this week.  The first Tenkara Summit was held in West Yellowstone this weekend and of course after talking about fishing many wanted to head out and enjoy the Park’s waters.   The Firehole is quite warm, especially below Midway Geyser Basin and even a mile or

The Park has a lot of options right now.  Cool evening temperatures and high water flows have kept the Firehole and Madison more fishable than most August’s.  We still think you need to watch the water temps on these rivers in the afternoons.  The water temps above Midway are always cooler than below on the Firehole.  Expect those damn

Anglers fishing in Yellowstone National Park have a great deal of options open to them now.  If we had to pick a corner we would probably head to the North East and fish Slough Creek.  Expect a chance to sight fish to some larger than average cutthroat, although it won’t be easy.  Have some PMD’s, midges, terrestrials, and

Pretty much all the rivers in the Lamar Valley are now fishing.  Soda Butte and the Lamar are still higher than we’re used to seeing them this time of year, but the fishing has been good.  You may want to be more prepared to nymph fish than you normally would in that corner of the Park, but you should still be