Feature photo caption: MRO Guide Hugh Himan got Kenna and her dad Randy into this nice BTX ‘Bow!
Montana
Hebgen & Quake Lakes: The lakes are fishing very well right now. Quake is starting to clear up and we’ve seen plenty of rises out there on the calm evenings. We’ve been getting them on chironomids subsurface, and fish have been looking at attractor dries as well as callibaetis (finally!)
Flies We’re Fishing:
#16 Found Link Callibaetis, #16 Spinner Long Tailed Callibaetis, #16 Peacock Chubby Chernobyl, #18 Bucky’s Midge Cluster, #18 Black, Olive, OR Red Zebra Midge, #14 O/S Opal Buzzer, #14 Olive Nugget, #14 Turkey Callibaetis, #16 Brush Hog, #14 Black/Red Ice Cream Cone, #8 Black Vegas Booby Leech, #8 Black OR Olive Simi-Seal Leech, #8 Hot Bead Thin Mint
Madison Flows:
Hebgen Lake Inflow: 909 CFS
Hebgen Lake Outflow: 398 CFS (yikes)
Kirby Flows: 779 CFS
Cameron Flows: 2200 CFS
Water Temp @ Kirby: High 57 F
Low 50 F
Flows as of 12pm June 12th 2025
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Action Shot of MRO Guide Noah Norwood
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Upper Madison:
Runoff has all but concluded outside of unforeseen future events (I’m looking at you Northwestern Energy). With that being said, the fishing has been spectacular on the 50 mile riffle! We’re seeing more and more caddis every day, and the off early stonefly shuck too lower on the river. Fish are munching rubberlegs which means they cant be far from popping. The nymphing is great with the same old same old. Pop in to our shop and grab some bugs!
Flies We’re Fishing:
#16 Olive Hot Spot Perdigon, #16 Sunburst Perdigon, #18 S&M Dark Baetis, #18 Purple JJ Baetis, #16/#18 Black OR Red Krystal Dip, #14 Pilva’s Perdigon – Olive, #16 Purple Parachute, #14-#16 Brown X-Caddis, #14 Missing Link Caddis, #16 Royal Chubby Chernobyl, #16 Peacock Chubby Chernobyl, #4 Olive Supernatural Peanut, #6 Olive MT Mouthwash, #6 Olive/White Barely Legal, #8 Hot Bead Leech – Olive, Black, Brown
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MRO Guide BJ Stone Helped Client Steve Wrangle this Beauty Madison Brown
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YNP
The park has opened to fishing and its been great!
Firehole: The firehole is fishing very well, we’ve seen tons of the regular opening day bugs, i.e. White Miller caddis, spring caddis, BWO’s, and some early big bugs in the way of salmonflies a bit lower on the river. swinging wets has been productive as always. Be mindful of the temps as the days go on, its been getting up there already.
Madison: The Mad is fishing great as well, with most of the same bugs as the firehole buzzing around.
Gibbon: To avoid redundancy, its fishing great too!
Gallatin: The Gallatin is still cold and a bit bloated and wont get into full swing for another couple weeks or so.
NE Corner: The Yellowstone River is closed until July 1st, but its tributaries are close to where we like them!
YNP Flows
Firehole: 265 CFS & 75F by 1pm
Gibbon: 136 CFS
Madison: 407 CFS
Gallatin: 1660
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Get out there!
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