About 30 minutes from Bozeman, the Yellowstone River is the last major undammed river in the Lower 48 and flows 671 miles. Starting in Yellowstone National Park, it flows through Paradise Valley and Livingston, eventually catching up to the Missouri River before making its way to the Atlantic Ocean. The Yellowstone River is know for its excellent fly fishing and river access.
Fishing on the Yellowstone has been excellent these past couple weeks! Nymping has been a productive way to fish if you find yourself more towards livingston. We have all been using worms, stoneflies, blowtorch's, prince nymphs, hare's ears, duracell's, and zirdles with great success. There are a few salmon flies out still and the fishing has been best with big bugs on the upper river in the park. There are also golden stones out and about as well and they have been munching them especially on the twitch. There are a bunch of caddis out and drakes so fishing with missing link's, parachute adam's, purple haze's, x caddis and x2 caddis have all been a good bet as well. Streamer fishing has been hit or miss but when it has been good it's been excellent. We recommend fishing with sink tips and heavy flies like kreelex's, sparkle minnow's, woolly buggers, mini dungeon's and bite snack sculpins.
Parachute Adams (16-20), Purple Haze (16-18), Buzz Ball (14-18), Corn fed Caddis (14-16), X-Caddis (14-16), Parachute bwo (16-20), Extended Body bwo (14-18), Chubby Chernobyl (10-16)
Woolly Bugger (4-12), Ditch Witch Black/red/purple/ Yellow/white(2), Mini Peanut Envy Black/Yellow/Tan (6) Mini Dungeon Black/purple /Olive/Yellow (6), Montana Intruder (4), Sparkle Minnow JJ's/Silver/Sculpin (4-8), Double Gonga Black (4), Sculpzilla Black/White/Olive (4-8), Seasoned Geezer Gold/Natural/Olive (6)
Pat’s Rubber Legs (6-12), Zirdle Bug (6-12), Perdigon Blue/Purple/Pearl (14-18), Jig thread Frenchie Brown/yellow (14-18), Hot head CDC Pheasant Tail (10-18), Jigster BWO (14-18), Formerly Known Prince Nymph (10-18), BH Hare's Ear (12-18), Sizzlin' Hot Squirrel (14-16), Matt’s Shagadelic Mop Tan/Brown/Chartreuse/Cheeto (10)
