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March Brown Mayflies

Posted on April 22, 2011February 20, 2017 by Eric Adams

It’s mid April and in Southwest Montana we should be starting to see some March Brown mayflies particularly on the Yellowstone River. Fellow Montana Fly Fishing Guides, Eric Paramore, was doing some river scouting today and say a good hatch of March Browns on the lower Yellowstone River at the Otter Creek fishing access near Big Timber.

Eric Adams is pictured with a great looking Cutthroat trout caught east of Livingston, Montana last spring. All of us Montana anglers are looking forward to a repeat of that great hatch from last season.

The predicted weather for this week is looking good for encouraging our mayfly friends to start hatching in earnest, so as always we’ll keep you posted!

To learn more about March Browns and other insects check out our Hatch Chart.

Hatch Watch – Salmonflies on the Yellowstone

Posted on June 30, 2010February 20, 2017 by Eric Adams

We have confirmed reports of Salmonflies at Loch Leven access on the Yellowstone River as of yesterday. The numbers were small, but pay attention as they can go quickly.

CAUTION: only extremely skilled oarsmen should venture on the river right now as the sheer volume of water (12,000cfs) is very powerful and even advanced rowers should be very careful. If you need real world examples 3 boats sunk on the Missouri River this past week – fortunately no one was seriously injured or killed. If you do decide to go on the Yellowstone be safe and wear you life jacket!

Stay tuned and we’ll keep you posted.

Hatch Watch – Pale Morning Duns

Posted on June 9, 2010June 2, 2022 by Eric Adams

It’s June and anglers from around the world are starting to filter into the world famous spring creeks of Armstrong, DePuy, and Nelson. Starting in the next week (June 15th) or so we should start seeing steady hatches of Pale Morning Duns. These great mayflies are a pale yellowish/olive and range in size from 12 to 16. Anglers obsess about PMDs as they are a larger mayfly and trout can’t help but look up to eat the dry fly.

We stopped by DePuy Spring Creek just the other day and turned over a few rocks and saw good numbers of PMD nymphs starting to stage up in the riffles. Based on our observations the nymphing should continue to get better throughout the week and dry fly action should start in the next 10 days.

For a hatch chart and more detailed information on these awesome trout, snack visits our Interactive Hatch Chart.

We still have a few spring creek rods available on Armstrong Spring Creek so if you’d like to book a guided fly fishing trip please contact us.

Mother’s Day Caddis Update 04/27/10

Posted on April 27, 2010February 20, 2017 by Eric Adams

Happy Mother’s Day Caddis hatch! We hope you can get out and fish it today, because some nasty weather is rolling our way. Highs over the next few days will continue to drop while the chance of rain will increase through Friday.

Not to worry the fishing will still be very good as we have a great March Brown and Baetis hatch that will be prolific with the cloud cover.

In the video fishing report you’ll see that the caddis hatch really just started yesterday. While the number of bugs on the water are not epic they are starting. Farther downstream near the 89 bridge the hatch was much heavier and we expect to see more of that today.

Stay tuned and we’ll keep you posted!