Fishing on the Fly 07-11-11

It's. This is you're fishing on the fly report for the week of July 11th. Highlights this week are the EP or Madison the Beaverhead the big hall and the Missouri. That's where you'll find the best fishing around right now. Lower Madison is still cloudy but leveling out at 58 hundred CFS so look for improving conditions and better fishing this next week. Nips and streamers are still preferred until water clarity improves. Try a dead drift crayfish are brown and black stone fly sized eight eggs and worms are still productive and for streamers around bugger size 6 for flash fry. Home invaders are fat head size too. I make sure to add some weight. The upper Madison is still too cloudy for drives which means the salmon fly hatch which is currently in progress. May be a bust this year. However if the water miraculously clears within the next week there may be hope. Until then streamers and amps will be the name of the game. Try a rubber leg hare's ear or mega pheasant tail size 6 to 8. Lightning Bug. Copper Johns or Mustang Sally size 16 to 20 Brown

and Olive skull pins Bow River bugger or a cone head JJ special for the big rigs close on the big hole are dropping and is currently hovering around 5000 CFS. With good clarity we're seeing some good action still on stone flies even though the hatch is dwindling golden stones yellow sallies and Norman's chubby are the hot dries right now and streamers are taking some nice fish from Jerry creek to divide anything yellow and black and big like a sex dungeon. Home invaders are a fathead. The Missouri is still fishing solid with slow steady at 22000 CFS worms have been consistent along with all of crawfish fish deep with a nine foot lead or dry fly fishing is starting to improve with occasional fish taken on May flies and caddis in the back water look for things to improve here as the feeder stream stabilize and flows continue to drop. The Yellowstone Jefferson Boulder and Stillwater are still in runoff mode and not much to report here with Forecast highs in the 80s for the forseeable future but for runoff to start winding down and then the fishing is going to be great.

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