It was one of those days in the west where the wind decided to blow. We fought the good fight, the boys fished all day and we rowed hard! We caught fish because the effort was put forth. It was pioneer spirit at its best!

Big Dan 

The morning was super slow with only a few fish, with small nymphs behind the streamers. but it picked up in the afternoon with dries. Fat Albert in red, size 12, Royal Cripple 16, and ants around 2:00pm. Twitching and swinging seemed to be the ticket.

Marty and Jim M

The Fully Wild group is out again! This go ‘round the fish are definitely eating a little better. The cold snap and the snow in the air have let the fish know it’s time to fatten up soon. Some

patterns that have been hot are the big nymphs in 6’s and 8’s such as the Girdle Bug and the Delektable Mega Prince. Smaller nymphs are the size 14 Pearl Lightening Bug, the Delektable Lil’ Spanker size 14, Pheasant Tail soft hackle size 16 and the famous Prince nymph sizes 14 and 16. The streamer bite has really been on lately with the bunny fur! By now I hope you are practicing up with yer streamer tactics because they are just absolutely slamming the streamer! The streamer bite has been on for most of the day with 1pm-3pm being the slowest. But, that afternoon slot has started back with hoppers and ants, so go figure! For Streamer fishing, the evenings have been the best here at the Tooth for us after work with black, olive and white articulated streamers. We hope you enjoy the pictures, and as always, Happy Fishing!!! DanG

Today with the temps dropping and the water temp staying below 62 degrees, it was a good evening for the Beartooth crew. Daniel and DanG went out for a few short hours and it was good, constantly catching fish with a few good browns. The flies they were hitting

involved meat AND potatoes. Streamers for Daniel and nymphs for DanG. Dark coneheaded streamers and dark bigger nymphs. It was really on from 5pm to 8pm. They also destroyed the Copper Zonker. Happy Fishing!!!

DanG

As we move into the fall with the cold snaps in the weather the fish start gearing back towards the larger nymph patterns like the mega prince #10, standard prince #8-12 and bigger mayfly patterns than the 16’s and 18’s you have been using. The 12’s thru 16’s are going to be the ticket now. They are still going to hit the little ones, but they are

 definitely going to be hitting the bigger ones now. They are soon to be pressured less and less and be more apt to hit the bigger bugs you might rather like to fish. Of course the streamers are doing very well now with the cloud coverage and the little bit of rain we’ve been getting. The streamer/nymph combo has been the best setup as of late to use. Black, olive, white and tan have been great colors for streamers in different varieties such as Sculpzilla, Trevor’s Scuplin, Sheila, Bow River and the Delektable Screamer. The Zonker #8 Copper has proven true over and over this past week, also cone-headed darker ones have been good. Some nymphs that have been working have been the prince, the nymphicator, the guide’s choice hare’s ear, Delektable Lil’ Spankers (most colors), lightening bugs, and copper johns to be specific. Chartreuse is a great color right now to for the nymphs. The wet stone fly pattern in the picture is imitating the actual stone fly that is down there (as you can see), and different colors of dark are working (brown and black). The dries we have been getting them on are hoppers, ants (royal trude), mayflies (14-18) and caddis. Some fish are still being taken on the Chubby and bigger dry fly stone patterns. Like I mentioned before, thinking outside the boat will get you there! Happy Fishing!!!

DanG

Dan Greene and I took a birthday float for me yesterday. We put in at Windy at first light and floated to Storey by dark. It was a nice loooong day filled with cold drinks, great laughs and tight lines! First we threw streamers with nymphs trailing; we picked them up on the small nymphs. We did not however crush the huge fish we set out to get, but we did get the smaller fish all day. We changed flies all day long getting about one fish per fly. It was never consistent throughout the day on a single fly, but constantly changing up did do the trick. We hooked up on streamers, but never landed any. We got them on hoppers and small dries. We really got them on small nymphs. We got them on just about everything. Boats would come by and ask what fly we were using, so we said…all of them. We did get a lunker whitefish too. All said and done, another great day well spent on the Madison!

Dave