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

If you haven’t been using yer streamers yet, I would get on the boat. We have been pulling some nice browns off of the banks in the evenings with streamers. The evenings that have been cloudy and rainy have been our best streamer nights. We have been staying close to 20 inches with most browns caught on streamers with black being the favorite color. The wooly buggers are working great now too. And I haven’t tried a bitch creek yet, but they are literally everywhere on the banks.  As it has been slowing down here a bit at the end of summer, we have had a little more time to tie up some of those dirty streamers we’ve had in mind all season. We have been pleased with some of the results and not so pleased with others 🙂 but overall, the rewards are always the same; Fishin’ on the river with yer friends and a freedom that you just can’t put words to.

DanG

The Fully Wild group of men were out again this morning! The reports and the pictures will be exciting for you because this means the river is still fishing excellent! Browns, browns and more browns are being caught as they start their journey upstream this fall to spawn and they are eating gooood right now!!! As usual, it was good earlier in the morning and then it slowed down a bit later on towards lunch. Our Beartooth guides

did a great job today as they had some first timers casting beautiful drifts that produced  a healthy dose of nice fish! Marty’s boat did very well this morning on hoppers and ants, while other guides did well on streamers and small nymphs. Sheila seems to be the Queen on the river now for streamers with the zonker and sculpzilla not far behind. The weather was a bit cloudy (perfect) today with threatening rain and wind to back it up, but the men were just fine and pushed on through. The lightening started to shut things down closer to the end for some today but overall it was a great morning with tight lines and happy clients!

Dang