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February 11, 2025

It’s Coooold Out There!

Recent cold temperatures have created quite a bit of shelf ice and floating slush ice on the Yellowstone lately. These conditions make it nearly impossible to fish the river effectively. Although temps are climbing back into the high 20’s later this week, they are also expected to be accompanied by heavy southwest winds from 11…

January 10, 2025

Wind, Cold, and Snow…

The weather forecast is calling for wind, cold, and snow this week.  Although most of the boat ramps are free from shelf ice, there is bound to be snow drifts out and about, with a good chance of getting stuck. Wade fishing is going to be a better option, focusing on the warmest part of…

December 2, 2024

Winter Fishing

For the most part we are in post-spawn mode on the Yellowstone and the Spring Creeks. There will be exceptions of course, especially on the spring creeks where warmer water is consistently flowing from the aquifers. If you fish the creeks please avoid fishing to actively spawning trout. Often you will find fish staging and…

September 20, 2024

Clarity Report

The Yellowstone is still quite off color from Top to Bottom today. On top of the Lamar still bringing in mud in Gardiner, the Shield’s is also puking in mud just below Livingston. Fingers are crossed for tomorrow being more green and fishable, especially with streamers. It does appear the Lamar has a double spike,…

September 17, 2024

Clarity Report

Due to recent rains, the Yellowstone has been in and out of clarity. After tonight’s storm, that trend could continue for a few days. By Thursday the sun will be shining again, we’ll just have to wait and see how much mud comes down the pipe. We think we’ll be able to work around the…

August 16, 2024

Clarity Report

The Yellowstone is experiencing some tiger stripes of mud yesterday and today. Yesterday boats were able to get well ahead of any color down low. Today there will be fishable (2 feet or more of vis) to be found if you can get behind the plug. Looking at the spikes on the Lamar we expect…

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