Richard, Don McCue, and I floated from Pine Creek to the 9th Street Bridge Monday. Fishing wasn't particularly fast, though not terrible, and we each boated at least one fish in the 17-19" class. Don and I fished streamers and got two in this range, while Richard fished using "his" method (read: dries) and got one. Half a dozen 12-15" fish and a couple small ones and whitefish rounded things out. We passed a couple foam patches early in the float with noses poking for Blue-winged Olives, although we didn't stop to switch to appropriate flies and so didn't get any on top. After noon the wind picked up hard out of the southwest (gusts to probably 40mph), and that was it for the risers.
Pictured is the longest fish, though probably not the heaviest. He ate a Black Circus Peanut.
We had heavy snow here in town two days ago. It is mostly melted, but the low-mid elevation snow from the system is sticking around. It's supposed to get into the mid-60s through Tuesday next week, and that's going to blow this out in a big hurry. By Thursday or so the river should clear and be red hot from then until the main runoff hits around the 10th.
Location: Yellowstone River, Pine-9.
Time: 11:00AM-5:30PM
Fish Landed: roughly 15, most trout.
Fish Landed: roughly 15, most trout.
Top Flies: #4+6 Black Circus Peanut, #2-4 Black Woolly Bugger, #10 Matt's Golden Stone, #12 Matt's Bead, Hare, and Copper.
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