The MO July 3-7 (3950 cfs)

Always good, its just a question of how good, or how much better than that "other" time.  Or, "back when I lived in Bozeman . . . "

Custom Lamiglas and Martin: Vintage and sweet

Um, pmd hatch on the cool, post-rain morning--early!

The home stretch of the "Lone Tree" float

Beaverhead June 28-30 (657cfs)

Higher water, but floatable, and some pmd's and yellow sallies to get a few fish up.

The Only Fly I Really Needed

The Slough--What's left of it. June 27

They've turned the Slough into a ditch with backhoes and dump trucks.  What was a meandering spring creek with weeds, eddys, mud, and hatches is now a sterile, mostly fishless ditch.  I found a remnant little pool with a few rising fish just below the ruined zone, fish that just happened to be eating the last couple of pmd's that floated by every now and then.  The final curtain, so to speak.  Maybe this public spring creek will return to glory some day, but for now, stick a fork in most of it.

The new ditch.  Bobber water.

Madison Pit-Stops June-July (813cfs-931cfs)

Good side-channel and bank fishing in the evenings with caddis and pmd spinners.  Mornings and daytime not so good on any visits.