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• ScottP Senior Member Posts: 480 Senior Member

  June 2012 #2

  Since no boats/watercraft are allowed on any rivers in YNP (except the Lewis-Shoshone Channel?) wading is your best (only) option. Check Wally's trip planner for suggestions:
  
  http://www.parksflyshop.com/howto/planning/planning.html
  
  West side of the park streams, Madison (in the Park), Firehole, Gibbon will probably be too warm to fish by then. Northeast end will be busy; Soda Butte and parts of the Lamar near the road get pounded. If you're willing to hike (be bear aware), you can find fish.
  
  Snake should be wadeable in spots but be careful; that's big water. Flat Creek will be open, too, if you want to give that a shot.

  They say the times are changing but I just don't know

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• LinoCatucci Junior Member Posts: 2 Junior Member

  June 2012 #3

  Hi ScottP,
  thanks for the information.
  I will check out Wally's site.
  
  Cheers,
  Lino

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• Montana Angler Junior Member Posts: 7 Junior Member

  November 2012 #4

  Yellowstone is filled with terrific wade fishing streams. In the heart of the summer many of the waters closer to West Yellowstone inside the Park get too warm such as the Madison, Firehole and Gibbon. The best summer waters are in the Northeast end of the park including the Gardner, Slough Creek, Soda Butte and the Upper Yellowstone River. These are wonderful dry fly streams casting mostly to cutthroat trout. There are also some terrific Montana rivers just a bit farther north such as the Madison, Yellowstone, Gallatin and others. You can't go wrong!

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