08-04-2004, 02:32 PM
Yellowstone National Park Rivers - August 3rd, 2004
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FISHING: Good
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[/url]Yellowstone National Park Slough Creek has offered the most consistent fishing in our end of the Park over the last week or two, as rains in the Park that have limited the fishing on the Lamar and Soda Butte Creek. The fish in these streams have not seen much pressure, so they should fish extremely well this season.
There are still a few PMDs on these streams, but terrestrials will provide much of the dry fly fishing on these Park waters in the next few weeks. These meadow streams support a wide variety of terrestrial insects, including ants, beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, etc. While most anglers prefer to fish hoppers, as they are easy to see, the smaller terrestrials will often be more productive, especially on the easily accessed areas of these waters, where the fish see quite a bit of angling pressure.
If you stay into the evening, the Lamar and Soda Butte also get good hatches of caddis. On Slough Creek, look for hatches of caddis, but there are also often good midge hatches on Slough that will require smaller flies and lighter tippets.
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supplied by: [url "http://www.fisheyesoup.com/redir.php?recKey=91,re"]Yellowstone Angler[/url]
FISHING: Good
Montana Stream Flows [[url "http://waterdata.usgs.gov/mt/nwis/current?type=flow"]click here[/url]]
[/url]Yellowstone National Park Slough Creek has offered the most consistent fishing in our end of the Park over the last week or two, as rains in the Park that have limited the fishing on the Lamar and Soda Butte Creek. The fish in these streams have not seen much pressure, so they should fish extremely well this season.
There are still a few PMDs on these streams, but terrestrials will provide much of the dry fly fishing on these Park waters in the next few weeks. These meadow streams support a wide variety of terrestrial insects, including ants, beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, etc. While most anglers prefer to fish hoppers, as they are easy to see, the smaller terrestrials will often be more productive, especially on the easily accessed areas of these waters, where the fish see quite a bit of angling pressure.
If you stay into the evening, the Lamar and Soda Butte also get good hatches of caddis. On Slough Creek, look for hatches of caddis, but there are also often good midge hatches on Slough that will require smaller flies and lighter tippets.
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