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Shuttle Companies:
B&G River Shuttle (Toots) - 222-3174 or 223-0626
Hooters - 223-2603

Fishing Report: 
Fishing can still be spotty because it's the Yellowstone, but if you know where to look for the fish right now (in the riffles and a couple feet deep of water with a bit of pace to it) they are absolutely munching dry flies. Forget going anywhere else in the state for the best dry fly action head straight over to the Yellowstone and look in the riffles, I floated Pine to Carters on Monday and had hands down the best dry fly fishing I've ever had on that river. I was by myself and single handedly caught 60-70 fish, I stopped counting somewhere around 40 and I fished for another 4 hours at that point. Fish were up on big goldenstone patterns in a size 6 or 8 and hoppers, ants, beadhead little bit of e droppers and lightning bugs and on and on. Stuff where the gradient picks up is going to be better because the water is cooler, so I'd skip the Bird float and anything where the water doesn't have much velocity, but Mallards to 89 should be a good stretch the next few weeks. Hopper fishing didn't pick up until the sun came out, so I don't know about getting up at the crack of dawn right now, afternoon was fantastic, I fished from 6am to 5:30pm without eating and probably just about got sunstroke, that's how good the fishing was - I didn't even care!!

Fly pattern suggestions: 
Chubby Chernobyl Hopper: 6-12, Marshmallow Hopper: 6-8-10 Barrett's Mutant Stone: 6-8-10 Rainy's Grand Hopper: 4-6-8  Dave's Hopper: 4-6 PMX Red, Black, Lime: 8-10-12-14 Lightning Bugs Pearl, Silver, Gold: 12-16, Mustang Sally: 14-16, Queen Prince: 8-14 Delektable Hurless Olive and Gray: 6-8  Mega Prince and Mega Hares Ear: 6-8-10  Delektable Brown Stone: 6-8  Copper Zonker: 2-4  Sex Dungeon Black: 2  Conenan The Barbarian Black, White, Olive: 2  Simm's Sluggo Rainbow: 1/0
Last Updated: 08/20/08

National Weather Service flow forecast


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