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Last Updated: 10/30/2008 The Yellowstone | Spring Creeks | Waters we fish | Guide Services Yellowstone RiverCFS @ Lamar River | CFS @ Corwin Springs | CFS @ Carter's
10/31
A nice fall buck Rainbow caught by Doug Mcknight. Looks like good cloud cover for today and this weekend along with a chance of showers and relatively warm temps for this weekend, so get out there. Some fish that have been MIA when it's bright may very well be on the prowl this weekend. 10/30
The "Bet Debt" streamers Well, looks like Doug is a happy guy today. His Phillies took it all, and now he's got 6 new flies from me, Rick, and Mike (our UPS driver). Damn that weather! Speaking of weather, it looks like some nasty stuff rolling in this weekend - which should be good for throwing streamers on the Stone... 10/29
The wind funnel continues... the weather is calling for 11-15 mph from the West, but it feels like 20 mph already. Even though the wind was roaring through the canyon yesterday, I did see one lone baetis clinging onto the rocks for dear life. Midges scattered the water close to the rip rap, but if the fish were there, they were hanging deep. A few boats were on the water yesterday, most headed up valley to avoid the wind. Make sure you call your shuttles in to Toots early (Hooters are currently on vacation), as they stop taking calls around 11:30. 10/28
You'll miss the leaves in late October, but Paradise Valley still makes for a beautiful float down the Yellowstone. Holy Wind! The last few days including today have been ripp'en. NOAA is calling it 11 m.p.h. but I was just fishing in town and there was quite a bit more wind than that. Bright and Sunny today, but it looks like more clouds are developing as we reach the weekend. Brian Sienkowski and his brother Adam fished the Upper Maddy two days ago and caught some nice browns on both streamers and nymphs. Yesterday they floated Mallard's to Pine and caught a few nice ones as well. 10/27
Floating under 9th st. bridge is doable, but a little tricky right now. With the Yellowstone dropping to 1,700 CFS the tailouts are starting to take on the perfect amount of flow and water depth for redds. Big rainbows will move below these spots and will be ready to pick off the occasional lost egg. The male browns tend to strike more at swinging streamers than the eggs. The female browns are too busy to eat and are just focusing on their job at hand. Aside from chasing after a big brown, you can look in the foam lines and foam eddies for Cutthroat and Rainbows. All the fish we've seen lately have been looking really healthy with fat, vibrant sides. There have been baetis out there depending on the clouds (and wind) and midges in the evening. 10/25
Rick Wollum's Sculpin Intruder. Click here for more photos. If you can get out early today, it looks like great cloud cover and at least for now (10:00am) there's no wind. It looks like that is going to change drastically this afternoon however, with winds blowing from the West at 29 - 32 m.p.h. and gusts up to 48 m.p.h. Better choose a shorter float incase conditions become intolerable so you can push out. Some good 3-4 mile floats include Carter's to 9, 89 to Sheep, East End to Springdale, Emigrant to Grey Owl, and Point of Rocks to 26. As usual, less wind in the Valley and lots of wind East of Livingston... 10/24
Here's that 31" brown caught in town last week by Erik Severson. You da man Erik! Thanks Jay for sharing the photo. We've had a lot of good reports from the river lately. Some guys were in the shop the other day and said that they moved a lot of big fish from 89 to Pig, and saw one huge brown. The whitefish are still biting beadheads nymphs, but they are starting to slow down a little. Aside from March and April, from now until the end of November should be one of the best times of year to catch a monster brown... 10/22
Today is pretty bright and windy. It's a SW wind, averaging about 20 mph. There's a little less wind in the Valley, NOAA is calling for 5-15 mph. around Emigrant. If you have things to take care of at home today might be a good day to do it. Otherwise, you could hit up one of the smaller tribs in the area and get out of the wind a little. The next few days look sunny, but the weekend warriors will be pleased to see a few more clouds in the forecast for Saturday. 10/21
The streamer bite is finally getting better on the Yellowstone... Got a nibble before work on a streamer, little guy, probably some whitefish with a Napoleon complex that was hitting my streamer out of territorial purposes. The nice thing is that fish are chasing streamers now. Yesterday Dan, the bartender at the Holiday Inn floated the Bird Float with a couple friends and did quite well stripping buggers. Clarity wise, the river is good to go, last night's rain didn't change anything. No spikes on the Lamar or the upper Yellowstone either, so the Yellowstone should be a good option for this week. Went out at lunch and caught a nice brown down by Sacajawea Park. The fish came out of water that was about 5 feet deep and 10 - 15 feet off of the rip-rap. 10/20
The brookies at Burn's Lake are really starting to color up. Local and private lakes have been fishing red hot lately, most likely due to less fishing pressure and colder water temps. If you're really looking to settle the score with some trout, then private lakes are by far your best shot. The browns on the Yellowstone are finally starting to eat streamers. We'd love to see a shot of that 15 pounder caught in town! 10/19
Hylite Reservoir makes for a nice afternoon get-a-way... There were a few tiny baetis like may flies on the surface of hylite res, we probably saw 15 - 20 rises that evening. We got a couple bites on small streamers, but no fish to the hand. We didn't have any small may flies with us, so we tied on a cicada and a fish crushed it but didn't get hooked. We heard of a 15 pound brown caught on the Yellowstone this weekend. The fish was caught in town on a streamer. Nice work guys! I hear the photo looks legit... 10/18
McKnight with the properly nick-named brown, "The Professor." Doug caught this hog a small streamer while fishing one of the exclusive private lakes we book. Call us if you'd like to book a day... In the Fall, the Yellowstone finally getting lower than the 10 year average. At only 1860 CFS wade fishing has become much easier than earlier this summer. Looks like today is going to be a warm one, NOAA is calling for mostly sunny and a Hi of 70°F. Wind could pick up in the afternoon (surprise, surprise) from 14 to 22 mph. Look for the fishing to pick up between 2:00 to 4:00. Dead drift your streamers, since the trout are nosing flies and bumping them. The last few days have helped bring the water temperature up, so the fish are a little more active than they were last week. On a side note, the Upper Madison has been fishing well and the Missouri has been fishing awesome with big fish up on baetis dries. The Bighorn still has some weeds, but is clear to fish. 10/17
HMmm... I'd like to swing a streamer through that! A few trips went out yesterday. Bob and Brian went from town down. Brian said they hooked into one really nice fish, but that in general it was pretty slow. I fished a bit afterwork down there but didn't move anything. George and Eric went from Mallard's to Pine and did pretty well. George's guy hooked two nice browns on streamers before the pine creek channel, off the riprap in about 3-4 feet of water. Eric's guy caught a handful of fish as well. 10/16
Through town has been fishing a little better the past few days. Although the snow melt didn't make the river dirty, it did make it colder. Now that the temperatures are higher the fish are more active and feeding more frequently, especially in the riffles and foam holes. Smaller streams are still fishing well too. I've been using sculpin streamers and rubber legged buggers. They'll pretty much eat anything you want to throw at them. 10/15
Last night's update from Pine Creek. No dice. Nothing. Nada... Didn't even see a rise, a push, or a shadow of a fish. There were some midges flying around, but I kept scanning the through the water looking for big fish that might be starting to stage up. The channel was a total ghost town. Perhaps in November it will be a different story. I noticed that since the river has changed it is also impossible to walk the islands from the bridge. The new (and very deep) flow cutting across the island from the west to the east is way to fast to cross, even for the toughest river commandoes. The only way to access it now would be from a boat. The good news is that the river is perfectly clear despite the melting snow...
The Spring Creeks
The Creeks are only $40 now which is a great price for fishing private water loaded with beautifully colored up fish. The rainbows and cutthroat are looking very vibrant this time of year, but the stars are the browns. Some of them are native to the creeks, but there have been some nice 17 -18 inch females that have run up from the Yellowstone too. Lower DePuy's is probably your best chance to run into one of these fish. For your best shot at resident Creek browns, try fishing Nelson's - especially close the logs. For hatches Armstrong's has probably been the most consistent and favorite with the guides - stand in any riffle and a good angler can catch a handful of fish without moving.
Baetis and midges are the main staple right now. Sparkle scuds go under the radar, and can be a great lead fly with a midge larva or thin olive baetis drake below it. Sculpin and spring creek leeches also work well in the creeks this time of year, especially on days with more cloud cover. Dead drifting your sculpin usually works better on the Creeks than stripping them, but try a little of everything. Stop in and ask for Rick's famous baetis emerger and we'll hook you up! |
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