Opening Day on the Madison
Yesterday was opening day on the Madison below Earthquake Lake. I planned on leaving the shop around noon to fish the afternoon but got hung up special dying some capes and grouse wings. I finally got out the door at 1pm and headed to $3 Bridge. There were plenty of locals there comparing notes over lunch. I geared up and walked downstream. At 2:30pm as I sat on the bank watching a huge emergence of Baetis without a rise. The water was in perfect nymph fishing condtion and since no fish were coming up I knotted on a $3 Dip and trailed it with a Baetis Nymph. It did not take long to catch my first trout of the new season, a fat rainbow. I followed it up with a few more rainbows and browns before breaking off a good brown which swam quickly away as I attempted to unhook it and snapped 4x.
Knotting on an new nymphing setup I could not help notice the shear number of Baetis duns floating along unmolested. I was witnessing the strongest Baetis emergence I'd seen on the river in years.....and it was being wasted as nothing rose to them!
I fished for another hour before calling it a day. I'd taken several fine trout, most on nymphs, and so did several other anglers I visited with. Some had fair success with streamers but nymphing seemed to bring the best results for those I talked with. The $3 Dip in brown and krystal worked fine as did some of our Baetis Nymphs and a couple streamers we have been fishing this spring.
This morning on the way into work I saw several rises on Hebgen Lake. If it would warm up into the 60's we will see some awesome midge fishing on this lake as well as Cliff and Wade. The forecast calls for this to happen later this week.
This week we will be working with the "Wounded Warrior" program in the Madison Valley. Stay tuned here for information on this event. Tylor and Jen helped the US Forest Service and Madison River Foundation last Thursday with the annual "Bear Creek Days" held each year to get youngsters into the outdoors and into fly fishing. They taught Tenkara fly fishing as well as traditional fly casting to 40-50 kids who were all excited to learn more about our sport.
The Yellowstone National Park general fishing season opens May 28th, this coming Saturday. If the current weather pattern holds we will be fishing pale morning duns and caddis on the Firehole River so stay tuned here!
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When I started fly fishing in the mid-1960’s there was too much emphasis on fishing at thirty to forty feet away. Today I fish as close in as possible. I noted in some photographs of Craig fishing the Madison he was doing so from his knees, obviously some close-in work. I usually nymph in close without a strike indicator, feeling for a strike. A “long” cast under these conditions is fifteen feet. Using a weight forward line fishing dries and nymphs makes no sense to me unless that is the only line you have. I am looking to control the drift by mending or taking in/letting out a bit of line. As such, there is no benefit to using a weight forward line for me. Actually, for most trout fishing I use a Triangle taper which is a super roll caster and puts down the thinnest part of the line on the water, which I believe makes a minimal disturbance to the fish. Ironically, I was introduced to this line as a way to fish at least seventy feet away in the Holston River in east Tennessee. The river is very deep and often unwadeable; the thin running line on the triangle taper makes it easier to reach fish at a distance than using a weight forward line. Just a small haul on the forward cast is all that is needed.
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