Salmonflies are officially out on the Lower Madison River.  The water is still high and off color but the fishing along the banks especially sub surface is producing some nice fish. With the high water conditions around the state, the local and private lakes around Livingston have been a great option for our guides and…

We have had good reports from Depuy’s with both baetis and PMD hatches coming off.  With the below average spring weather we are having the Blue Winged Olive emergence is still bringing fish to the surface. Carry baetis dries, nymphs and emergers in sizes 20 – 24. The Pale Morning Dun Hatch has just started…

George made his way to the Beaverhead the past two weekends and found some very good sub-surface fishing. The river from the dam to grasshopper creek is fishing well both from the boat and shore.  They caught several browns up to 22″ on a variety of small midge  and mayfly nymphs using 12 foot leaders…

Gerry Lenzen with a hefty cutbow caught on 6/9  Right now is one the best times to go for a big fish on one of the private lakes we fish.  Burn’s has been fishing very well lately, with callibaetis hatches in the afternoons once things warm up.  Higher elevation lakes have yet to see callibaetis,…

6.6  In general, brighter days have tougher with more emphasis on sight nymphing, particularly with midge larva, scuds, sawyer style pt’s…  The recent rain however has brought the baetis back and we’ve been seeing good numbers of baetis and pseudos.  This week looks like overcast and rain, so get out there while the hatches are…

6.1  The creeks continue to fish well and will be one of the few places to fish with clear water.  Had our first reports of PMD’s on Nelson’s yesterday so it looks like it is now time to start loading up on Pale Morning Dun patterns and less on Baetis.  Midges will still be going…

Livingston Spring Creeks Joe Dorn with one of two nice browns caught at DePuy’s Spring Click here for more pics.  Photos: Guide Doug Mcknight 5.22 Even bright days have even been fishing well (see Joe’s two browns over 20 inches above).  Nymphing with midges pupa, midge larva, scuds, and thin mayfly nymphs has been the ticket. …

3 browns over 20 – not bad for mud buggin!   Photos: James D. 5.20  We’ve had a little drop in CFS over the past day or two, and clarity has improved to at least a few inches.  Below the Shield’s there is no vis.   With this change in weather the Yellowstone is festering, so…

5.16  Almost 10 Grand, the Yellowstone is blown. Our guess is we’ll have decent streamer clarity (10,000 CFS) around mid to late July with “green is good” right behind it (8,000 CFS).  For those of you who might be out of state and don’t know, “green is good” is one of the best times to catch…

5.12  Floated the Yellowstone the last two days.  Thousands of caddis coming off but the combination of a stiff north wind and only inches of visibility made for tough fishing conditions.  Despite all the bugs, we only saw about 20-30 rises each day.  To make a long story short we caught 1 fish Wed. evening…