Fly Fishing Montana's Madison River - Ghost Village to West Fork in search of wild trout
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- This is the forth video in my journey to fish for wild and native trout in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding areas. With temperatures in the Spring of 2021 rising on the Firehole River it was time to venture out of the park to seek colder waters. The Madison River below Hebgen Dam is a top choice on any angler's list. The Madison River is a blue ribbon trout stream with amazing scenery and large wild trout.
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Love everything that you’re doing on here! It’s entertaining, informative, and takes me on a vacation to amazing trout streams while I work my day job. Thanks so much, tight lines my friend!
Hi Robert, thank you for the kind words. I’m glad you like my videos. I started making them for a friend who was very ill, house bound, and could no longer join me on fishing trips. I had seen these hiking and camping videos on RUclips and came up with the idea to pretend my friend was with me hiking up to these remote trout ponds. He loved them and kept asking me to make another. Unfortunately he passed away. I made the videos public and people liked them, so I decided to keep the same format or story line (whatever they call this) sharing the journey, exploring areas to fish. I’ll be joined for a couple of weeks this June with my daughter, Megan, camping and fishing in the Yellowstone area. And am really looking forward to it! But not to start showing pretty girls, in skimpy bathing suits, holding big fish. Steve
Thanks for your perspective, style and approach as you search for trout and meaning perhaps.
Thanks Jane for your kind words and insight. The video I am now editing, to fish the revered trout waters of the Harriman Ranch in Idaho will hopefully express meaning for why I do this. Helped, in no short way, by nature with a double rainbow as I wade into these fabled waters for the first time.
Your fishing videos are amazing. Can I learn to fly in a month ? I'm in Yellowstone in August. 😊
Thank you! Yes, you can learn fly fishing in a month, and if you hire a guide or fish with an experienced friend they can teach you the basics and get you going on your first day. Over time you’ll get better. You’ll never stop learning. And now for the bad news. The thermal activity at Yellowstone in August heats up the rivers that are easy to access and the trout either head up these little streams or head back into the depths of lakes where the water is cooler. Catching trout when water temperatures climb over 65-68 degrees Fahrenheit (18-20 degrees Celsius) is harmful to trout as the struggle to land them is too stressful for the trout. There are some higher altitude mountain streams and ponds in Yellowstone where the water remains cooler in late summer, but now you’re hiking into bear country, which you definitely don’t want to do alone. Your best source for fishing advice will be with the park’s services. Have fun and get up early to avoid the August crowds and get parking spaces at the popular sites!
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Thank you.
I'm glad you eventually had success and all the trouble just made for good tv. That stretch you fished is about the only place I've wanted to go but haven't made it yet, just moved here to flyfish, maybe I'll run into ya.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks. It's a great walk and wade section. Next time I fish this section of the Madison I'm going to try some Euro Nymphing. The cobble is perfect for bouncing nymphs off the bottom.
Was this end of May/start of June? I was in the same place, seeing the same signs, and I'm like 99% sure the white truck that pull in was my dad and I......
Interesting, about 50meter up from you there was a mountain goat carcass pushed out of sight under a fallen tree that apparently no one knew about (Until I about climbed onto it). You where between both when you started! Although both were on the other side.
Hi Luke, I was there around June 16th I was told there were two elk carcases, but only saw the second - and a little surprised how close I was when I fianlly saw it. There was no odor
@@RemoteFlyFishing Same, we came across both and never knew until we were right on them. Between the cold water/wind/and being submerged they are hard to detect without a bear's nose. Plus, the scenery is just to distracting!
Fishing was good though, couldn't make any dries work other than a few on the firehole. That stretch (in the madison) they were completely focused on prince nymphs. Cool video, thanks for sharing!
hello - how did you set up your rig?
Great question. I should have explained the rig I was using early in the video. I was fishing with an Echo Shadow X, 10’6” #3 rod. The leader I was fishing with is referred to as a Modular-Nymphing Leader, consisting of Cortland Euro Nymph leader material: 10 to 12 ft of Cortland Camo 20lb, 3 to 4 ft of Camo 12lb, and 1 to 1 ½ ft of Tri-Color Indicator Mono followed by a tippet ring and then 2 to 5 ft of 4X tippet finishing with a 6 to 8” dropper tag (with a small nymph) tied above 18” of tippet to my golden stone fly. I also tied a piece of red string to my indicator line above the tippet ring as the sun was very bright and I was having difficulty seeing the Tri-Color line. The reason for my giving you a range (2 to 5, 1 to 1 1/2, etc.) is that I shortened up the tippet lengths when I began fishing below the deeper pool.
@@RemoteFlyFishing got it. So you have a euro nymph rig but essentially fishing a dry dropper? Is there a reason why you chose the euro nymph rig as oppose to the more traditional dry dropper rig which would be a 9 foot rod with 5x line? Also, i am a little confused about what exactly you mean with the dropper tag? were you fishing one or two nymphs? sorry if the questions are very basic, I am a new angler trying to understand the million different ways of fishing!
@@25falcons Opps, my sorry -- I thought your question was related to the rig I was using on the video I posted on the Warm River in Idaho, where I was fishing with a Euro Rod and Rig with two nymphs. In this video I was fishing a bamboo rod with a 5X line on this section of the Madison River. Fishing a combination of dry flies and nymphs. Regarding the dropper tag, which you can use in either a Euro or traditional fly fishing rig, is when you're fishing two nymphs but not with the leader of the second nymph tied on the hook of the first nymph. Here is a link to a video on RUclips , ruclips.net/video/bPsVZ7YK4-w/видео.html, which is easier to see done versus my trying to explain it in words.
How cold is that water? Do you tie your own flies? If so, that would be a cool video!
it was pretty cold, 53 to 55 degrees. I do tie my own flies, but when I visit a fly shop and ask for advice on where to fish I will also ask for recommendations on flies that are hot, and buy a few. It's the polite thing to do and it provides me with a pattern I can use to tie up more flies in the evening. I might take you up on your suggestion and film my tying up some flies - maybe the Salmon Fly nymph I've tied using rubber from an old bicycle inner tube. I learned how to tie this fly from a video on RUclips.
What kind of bamboo rod it that??
Good eyes! It's a Jenkins, 8', 2 piece, model GA80-35. I fish it with a 5 weight DT line, and it easily handled an 18 inch rainbow that after I reeled it close to me took off on a second run.
Nice thanks !
What other bamboo rods do you fish ?
I trust you have bear spray 😳
Wouldn't leave home without it!
I've pounded that section with streamers a dozen times with very little to show for it. Beautiful spot
I am curious how the recovery has been since the dam failure this past winter.
This is terrible news as a gate on the Hebgen Dam failed, affecting fish below the dam where I was fishing. The good news is the volunteers who went into action to save the trout and other fish.
www.usnews.com/news/best-states/montana/articles/2021-12-01/fish-stranded-from-dam-malfunction-on-renowned-montana-river?context=amp&fbclid=IwAR0QOXPReZ_-Lrf-S6NHIybEEohyAnG4Z2-UCyYkypp4qg2AdhaJPJ1Ew44