07-17-2010, 04:24 AM
Do you know what part of the Park you will be in mostly? It's a big place, and if you want to see it all, and only have a day to do it, fishing likely won't be part of the equation.
IMO Yellowstone is about as pure fly fishing as it gets. It's pristine, well kept, and natural in most ways. In 2 weeks you might have some gray drake hatches. My favorite pattern for that happens to be a green drake pattern! (I think profile is more important than color most times)
I'm not sure if they are behind this year up that way like last year, but hoppers and other terrestrials like chernobyl ants should bring fish to the surface as well. Some places up there have salmon fly hatches, so we learned a few years back that on those places fishing hoppers with defined, bright orange in them produced well.
As for where to fish....man....find water and hit it! Again, that depends on where you're going to be in the park and realistically how much time you can devote to fishing. The Yellowstone, Lamar, Soda Butte, Gardiner, Firehole, Madison and this list goes on all are right off the road in some places, or very reasonably close to the road at least.
Don't overlook caddis hatches this time of year on the Yellowstone....if the fish are there, they get BIG! Read one time that tagged cutts in the Yellowstone have traveled as much as 7 miles in one day. Blew my mind! Those fish like to move, they are either there or they are not.
This book is killer for Yellowstone advise as well:
http://www.amazon.com/Yellowstone-Fly-Fi...658&sr=8-1
If you can get one, it will give you all the info you need and more!
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IMO Yellowstone is about as pure fly fishing as it gets. It's pristine, well kept, and natural in most ways. In 2 weeks you might have some gray drake hatches. My favorite pattern for that happens to be a green drake pattern! (I think profile is more important than color most times)
I'm not sure if they are behind this year up that way like last year, but hoppers and other terrestrials like chernobyl ants should bring fish to the surface as well. Some places up there have salmon fly hatches, so we learned a few years back that on those places fishing hoppers with defined, bright orange in them produced well.
As for where to fish....man....find water and hit it! Again, that depends on where you're going to be in the park and realistically how much time you can devote to fishing. The Yellowstone, Lamar, Soda Butte, Gardiner, Firehole, Madison and this list goes on all are right off the road in some places, or very reasonably close to the road at least.
Don't overlook caddis hatches this time of year on the Yellowstone....if the fish are there, they get BIG! Read one time that tagged cutts in the Yellowstone have traveled as much as 7 miles in one day. Blew my mind! Those fish like to move, they are either there or they are not.
This book is killer for Yellowstone advise as well:
http://www.amazon.com/Yellowstone-Fly-Fi...658&sr=8-1
If you can get one, it will give you all the info you need and more!
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