Yellowstone River

The Yellowstone River is the longest undammed river in the lower 48 United States.  It is a floater’s river full of fish and southwestern Montana scenery.  One of the most unique aspects to the Yellowstone River is the fact that on any given day a typical 8-12 float will be chosen out of a fishable and floatable 130-140 river miles.  So, we may fish one day near Yellowstone National Park and another day 80 miles east of Livingston by Columbus, Montana.  This allows people to see both a variety of river stretches, fishing methods and places along the way.

The Yellowstone is a dry fly fisherman’s river! The best fishing happens at the following times:

Mid April – Early May = Beatis, March Brown’s, Caddis

July 4th (or Post Run-off) = Salmon Flies and Golden Stones

Late July – August = Hoppers, aka Chubby’s, Caddis, Ants, Beatles, Possible Drakes

September-October = Beatis, Flying Ants, Hoppers, Caddis, and Parachute Adams (random mayflies)

There are lots of places where eloquent writers have described the beauty of our home river and I can’t compete with that.  What I can tell you is that when the Yellowstone is not running off chances are that the fishing will be fantastic and so will the ride.