Yellowstone Park

Fall River streams (Bechler and Fall River, Boundary and Mountain Ash Creeks) currently offer their best top water fishing. When trout over two feet long come to the top to take a drifting PMDs, wind blown giant or golden stone flies, yellow sallies and  or damsel flies everyone pays attention. Looking at the big picture the great fishing combined with solitude and scenery makes this section of the park hard to beat. Want to see a beautiful road side stream hosting large cutthroat trout? Go to the Lamar River-Soda Butte Creek Confluence and join the crowd. The Gallatin River offers some great caddis activity with terrestrial insect populations building. Being roadside to US Highway 191, it can get crowded with fly fishers. Pelican Creek is now open to fishing, and after the easy two mile walk a host of ravenous post spawning cutthroat trout returning to the lake will take almost any small or medium sized fly you will offer. Beware of bears and bison if you intend to fish this beautiful meadow stream. Slough Creek above and below the campground offers the same action as Fall River Basin streams, but being road side or accessed by  easy trail access is much more crowded.