James Marsh

The month of October is big fish time in Yellowstone National Park. There will be some warm days but cold, sub-freezing temperatures will be common. During the month you can expect water temperatures to vary from the preferred range for trout to the freezing level depending on the location and elevation of the stream. Cold air temperatures, especially in the morning, are typical. Snow showers… Read More »To Help You Plan Your next Yellowstone fly fishing trip – October 01 – November 06 Streams To Fish

During the last part of the month of September you can expect water temperatures to be down to the preferred range for trout throughout the park. Cooler air temperatures, especially in the morning, are typical. Hoppers remain a prime fly because they are easy to see and fish but you will start seeing more mayflies and caddis. Ants and beetles will also be good fly… Read More »To Help You Plan Your next Yellowstone fly fishing trip – September 15 – October 01 Streams To Fish

During the first part of the month of September you can expect water temperatures to start dropping into the preferred range for trout. The weather is usually very nice with cool, crisp mornings and warm afternoons. It may be 35 to 40 degrees in the early morning and in the seventies to low eighties in the afternoons, so be sure to dress in layers. During… Read More »To Help You Plan Your next Yellowstone fly fishing trip – September 1-15 Streams To Fish

During the last part of the month of August, the number of anglers fishing slow down some. The season so far has seen a lot of fishing pressure on the easily accessible, famous rivers. Even so, there are plenty of streams and portions of streams that have not been fished hard at all. Hatches fall off some but are still the most important thing even… Read More »To Help You Plan Your next Yellowstone fly fishing trip – August 15-31 Streams To Fish

The following is why this is important to decide prior to making your trip. Since Yellowstone National Park is a huge park, it can involve traveling across the park in order to fish a stream you want to fish if you wait until you get there to make the decision as to where you are going to fish. You need to be located in a… Read More »To Help You Plan Your next Yellowstone fly fishing trip – August 1-15 Streams To Fish

Since Yellowstone National Park is a huge park, it can involve traveling across the park in order to fish a stream you want to fish if you wait until you get there to make the decision as to where you are going to fish. You need to be located in a town or campground near the stream or otherwise you could spend almost half of… Read More »To Help You Plan Your next Yellowstone fly fishing trip – July 16-31 Streams To Fish

Yellowstone National Park covers a huge area and if you plan on having a good amount of time to fish any one stream, you need to be located in a campground or town around the perimeter of the park close to that stream, otherwise, you may need to spend much of the day traveling from back and forth from your base location to the particular… Read More »To Help You Plan Your next Yellowstone fly fishing trip – July 1-15 Streams To Fish

While most everyone that pursues trout on the fly, prefers to catch them on a dry fly, you shouldn’t totally rely on that. Actually, you should never rely on that. This doesn’t mean that you can’t catch trout on dry flies in June. It simply means you should stick solely with that approach. You should always base choosing the fly to use based on the… Read More »To Help You Plan Your next Yellowstone fly fishing trip – June Strategies, Hatches and Flies

Like I wrote in the last post, no one knows what the weather forecast will look like for the first day of the 2022 fishing season and that will be the biggest unknown factor especially at the first part of the month. As I also wrote, even so, there are many things you can count on. It is for certain that not all the streams… Read More »To Help You Plan Your next Yellowstone fly fishing trip – What is it usually like in June

No one knows what the weather forecast will look like for the first day of the 2022 fishing season. That will be the biggest unknown factor. Even so, there are many things you can count on. It is for certain that not all the streams in the park will be in good enough condition to have much opportunity of catching good numbers of trout. Many… Read More »What it is normally like on opening day fishing Yellowstone National Park