Late Summer Action Floating The Yellowstone River! Dry Fly Action With Big Flies

Montana's Big Sky Country..Pretty Hard To Beat
More on our trip sections and rivers below

We started our Yellowstone trip this year with none other than the world class waters of the Yellowstone River. Everyone who passes through this area you're almost obligated to spend a few days on the glorious waters in Paradise Valley. My pal Rob is lucky enough to live in Bozeman and Denver and now San Francisco throughout the year, lucky Dawg. It's been a few years since I had floated the Yellowstone so he put on the guides and waters to target Cutthroats on dries.

Montana to me is what Fly Fishing is all about. There is no other place in the lower 48 that I feel is better known for its superb fly fishing than Montana. Sure Colorado has our share of top notch fisheries -as well as the crowds not to mention, but its Montana that reigns supreme to me for it's vast amounts of quality rivers, spring creeks, wide open valleys to float through and endless possibilities when it comes to rivers to fish. I mean for some of the guys it was a bit overwhelming
trying to decide between the Yellowstone, Madison, Gallatin, Jefferson, Big Hole, Rock Creek, Blackfoot, Flathead, Clark Fork, Boulder, Missouri and let's not forget their quality trout lakes that grow some monsters.


The Playas representing! Dave sporting a nice tan already, TDawg, Cobos and Donny B all for a great day out floating. Despite a late start we managed to still make it out in time and timed it pretty good for some Hopper action. Big Hoppers, Crickets and Club sandwiches were the name of the game today! No me the Streamer guy I had to try my luck but it just wasn't happening below the surface today, no complaints at all.



Fish on seemed to be the phrase for much of the day, though we had some dry spells and I had waaaay too many misses (can you say about 20) so my game was not spot on but nonetheless I landed my share. My biggest was a whopper that looked around 4-6lbs that just barrel rolled my dry and snapped 4x like it was nothing, wow was that a beast! Our guide Sean Blaine was the man, a great guide that you couldn't have asked for more. Best of all he worked his tail off trying to get us into nice fish and he's even a Carp junky like myself having guided Brad Befus "the official Carpmaster" a few weeks back he said.



Cobos with the nicest fish of the day and trip! A healthy brownie that we all aspired to go after; he was just better skilled at landing it. Our guides said that they may get 1 every few weeks like that so Brian was more than happy at the end of the day with that bruiser. Their guide actually asked to have his picture with Brian's fish -just him? Never heard of someone doing that prefer..interesting. Dave with a nice fish and he had a good day as well despite having a guide that wouldn't let them stand up, wouldn't change flies much or row at all. Next time we'll get you a better one for sure.



The Yellowstone River is in Southwest Montana and originates of course in Yellowstone National Park. Because the Yellowstone River stretches such a big portion of Montana's landscape fly fishermen never really struggle with catching trout, but rather where they will begin and which trout they will count towards their limit. Add in the unbelievably beautiful scenery that surrounds the Yellowstone River and it is a true can't miss combination.


Checkout These Similar Threads

• Yellowstone National Park Fishing Trip
• Madison River Trip
• Slough Creek Cutthroats Dry Fly Fishing
• Yellowstone River Float Trip

MORE AT FLYFISH ADDICTION

Fly Fishing Slough Creek's Backcountry! Hoppers, Bear Sightings, Yellowstone Cutthroats and No Crowds!

Da Bears and The Perfect Yellowstone Getaway

Slough Creek was one of our top destinations...why you ask? If you haven't been to Slough Creek you have been missing out. It's been one of my favorites since fishing there countless times while I lived there years ago. Yes it can get crowded, yes it can fill up as far as camping areas and yes, there could be bears. If those are a deterrent than plan ahead and escape the crowds for some superb dry fly fishing and escape to the wild. We had a great time there and though it wasn't true to form as far as risers everywhere, late Summer angling pressure and weather played a part into it being slower than normal. Nonetheless I had a blast and we all pretty much netted a number of quality Cutthroats. Then again if you come here expecting numbers and easy fishing, you may come away with a bruised ego. They can be hard to catch but if you've done your homework and work for em, who knows what the day will bring.


Donny B watching a few risers while mr Buffalo keeps his distance as we finish out the day. Clark finished the day with one of the nicer Cutty's he caught. Yellowstone Cutthroats on Grasshoppers is pretty darn hard to beat!


We had the place to ourselves for most of the day and between catching a fair amount of trout and finishing the day out with risers around us, I couldn't think of a more suitable place to sit back relax whether one caught fish or not.

1st Meadow of Slough Creek. Nice place to gaze and watch Cutty's swimming by but our main objective was to pass up this area and keep hiking! We headed towards the 2nd meadow for some meadow fun fishing and Canyon crawling. This guy was one of about 10 I caught in a hole, almost every cast I hooked one in that section, crazy and my video of it should be uploaded soon for you to watch.

Practicing my Bear spray on dummy tester Cobos! No bear sightings but plenty of bear scat around and a few tracks down by the river. More on Slough Creek on my FFA website with a complete recap as well as a 2nd posting this week on Slough since we had a "Slough" -no pun, of pictures from this great area.

Slough Creek is located in the Lamar Valley, this small campground area if not hiking, is a great for watching wolves, Buffalo and getting your dry fly fix. The campground is open from late May until October, with roughly 29 camping sites. Soda Butte also has sights needed if there is an overflow from Slough. If camping backcountry make sure to call ahead and get your permits, they go fast if there are bear sightings lately, they may move you up to another meadow.


Checkout These Similar Threads

• Yellowstone National Park Fishing Trip
• Madison River Trip
• Slough Creek Cutthroats Dry Fly Fishing
• Yellowstone River Float Trip

MORE AT FLYFISH ADDICTION

Summer Yellowstone Adventure! Fly Fishing Top Waters From The Madison, Yellowstone, Gallatin and Slough Creek

It's Time To Get The Boys Together

It's been a few too many years since I've been able to get back to my favorite stomping grounds of Yellowstone. My Pals were itching to find another local spot to hit this late Summer and when it came to me early in the Year....it's been close to 20 years since I called YNP home; no other choice was a possibility!

*This week FFA will be highlighting our trip each day with a new Location, feel free to checkout our posts each day on locations visited such as: the Yellowstone River, Yellowstone National Park, Slough Creek, Madison River Valley and the Gallatin River.



The playas were able to make it and though I had two close calls that bailed towards the end due to newborns and moving, we were able to put together a great crew for some memorable Fly Fishing Adventures. Whether it was Clark whom made the trek out from Minnesota for 3 whole weeks or others from Georgia; they were scattered all over the place. The fish never had a chance with these fishing phenoms. Brian made it from Minnesota as well, Dave from D town, myself and Donny B from Atl.





Think of Yellowstone and 2 words (okay more like 50) come to mind, bears and Buffalo's to look out for. Fortunately we only encountered the Buffs, it's always a riot to see these guys all over and even more so when we were awoken one morning by one walking feet from our tent waking us up!
Whether it was waiting patiently on the hwy for one to move along or others whom camped out at our campspot for breakfast, they were always seemingly entertaining.



Yellowstone Cutthroats on dry flies, does it get any better than an impressive Cutty shooting up 5 feet like a missile to attack a grasshopper....what an experience!



Canyon Village is my old haunt and visiting Lower Falls over the years never gets old. An experience everyone should try is to hike into 7 Mile Hole "7 Mile Hell" locals call it (14 miles rt) and exploring any section if Yellowstones Canyon is quite an experience when targeting nice trout.

More great pictures of Yellowstone National Park, trout pictures, the Firehole River and more here at Fly Fish Addiction's YNP Section.


Checkout These Similar Threads

• Yellowstone National Park Fishing Trip
• Madison River Trip
• Slough Creek Cutthroats Dry Fly Fishing
• Yellowstone River Float Trip

MORE AT FLYFISH ADDICTION

Fly Fishing The Surf, Inshore Waters of NY, CT and Rhode Island

Surf & Inshore Fishing 2009 - Part 1 from Peter Laurelli on Vimeo.

Peter Laurelli is back at it again with some great Saltwater footage fishing the beaches off of New York, CT (too lazy to spell) and Rhode Island. Pals Clem and Jake just got back last month from an incredible trip as well and maybe one of these days I can book a trip up that way for some sweet fishing.


MORE AT FLYFISH ADDICTION