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Yellowstone National Park
July 17, 2010
Fishing in Yellowstone has been fantastic lately.
We have moved into a stable summer weather pattern in Northwestern
Wyoming. Snow in the mountains is rapidly disappearing and temperatures
are in the 70s-80s during the day. We are essentially looking at the
end of runoff, so the time has come for all of the water in the park to
be fished. The Yellowstone River, just below the outlet of Yellowstone
Lake opened this week. If you haven’t fished this stretch before, check
it out. There is great access to a lot of very fishable water just
north of Fishing Bridge.
All around the park be on the lookout for PMDs
throughout the day, caddis later in the day, Green Drakes, Drake
spinner falls in the evenings, and stoneflies (salmon, golden and yellow
sallies) in areas with more oxygenated water. If you’re heading into
the park make sure you have a wide selection of flies-standard dries
like Adams, Wulff, Parachute Hare’s Ear, Humpies and Trudes; more
specific PMD and Drake Patterns; and good ol’ wooly buggers, pheasant
tails, princes and copper johns. We should start seeing more
terrestrials getting blown onto the water- beetles and ants are
currently crawling and flying around. Start looking for hoppers to be
making a presence in the coming weeks.
In terms of places to go, most of the water, by all
accounts is in good fishing form. The exception is the Firehole River,
for the time being. With rising water temperatures in the Firehole,
fish become stressed and any additional pressure from anglers will
threaten the population in this drainage. Yellowstone has everything
an angler can hope for-from small feeder streams to canyons with great
pocket water to meandering grassy banked streams and a wide variety of
lakes.
For up to date info or to plan your next fishing
adventure, give a call here at the shop (307) 733-7210
John Fitzgerald
High Country Flies |
