With all the cold wet weather, fishing on the Henry’s Fork has been a bit tougher. However, there are some great trout being caught like this 24 inch rainbow trout by Ron Cockle. Ron and David Engelman, a guest of over 3 decades, had a great day on the Henry’s Fork.
The weather looks to be improving a bit. This should settle the river down and get some more big bugs out. Green Drakes should be making an appearance as well.
We are getting tired of the rain, but we sure needed it.
Jason Terry. Second day fishing. Personal double.
Despite the wet and windy weather, fishing has been great on the South Fork. Water conditions are good. Water color is not bad at all. We are catching fish on both nymphs and streamers.
Jason had a great day on the river. It was only his second day and had been fishing dry on the Henry’s Fork the previous day. He transitioned nicely to the nymph rig and caught the heck out of em.
Way to go Margaret. 26 inch Henry’s Fork brown trout caught on a dry fly.
Last night at 10:00 Randy and I decided to go fishing today. We have been fishing so much on the Lower South Fork lately that we felt like we needed some new scenery. For that we are leaving here at 5:00 am, just as I am writing this post, for Livingston and the Yellowstone River. It is 3 hours each way to Bozeman and it does not sound like many people have been fishing up there as of late. We will find out if we are crazy or not in a few hours. You on the other hand will have to wait until tomorrow to see what happens. I will post the video around noon, that is if we catch any fish to video. The Yellowstone is a great river, very similar to the South Fork. I hope getting up this early and driving that far will be worth it, we will see.
I missed posting on Monday the 17th because we headed out on the river. We floated our regular winter section, Heise to Lorenzo. Fishing totally with streamers we managed to land 48 fish. The action was a bit slower than the last trip we took, but we still caught a good number of nice fish. No monsters this trip however. The biggest fish was 19 inches. The weather was cloudy and the air temperature was around 35 all day. This made for near perfect conditions. We had no ice in our guides and stayed very comfortable all day. The best patterns were olive and chartreuse streamers for the most part, but late in the day we switched to a white fish pattern and landed a number of nice fish as soon as we changed flies. We even landed one brown on this pattern that had a real white fish hanging out of his mouth. The weather looks good for the next few days, so get out on the river. Next week it looks like temps will dip down below freezing again so get up and go now.
