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Gardiner is crawling with bugs right now...

Wow!!!  There were so many salmonflies flying above the Yellowstone tonight in Gardiner that several Park visitors were running across the high bridge in town, screaming as they bolted through the gauntlet of bugs, “Oh my God, oh my god, I’ve never seen anything like this before!  This is CRAZY!  Welcome to salmonfly central… Another girl was talking to her Dad on her i-phone, “Dad, these things are huge, like two inches long and crawling everywhere – ahh!”  (A giant salmonfly hovered right in front of her)… The skinny and (now crunchy) cement path across the bridge was scattered with salmonfly “road kill.”  I have never seen so many salmonflies in the sky at the same time… It looked a cotton storm, except instead of white fluff floating around, it was fat salmonflies and goldenstones fluttering their wings up stream.  There’s still time to get out and float before the salmonflies are in the Park, but the door is closing quickly.  By next week you’ll have to hike to earn your hits, so get after ’em now while the float fishing is still on…