Double date with the Muellers

Had a great Valentines day float with our friends Geoff and Kat... it was gals vs guys and while the gals hooked more fish I'm pretty sure ours were bigger.

Kat and Alyssa gettin it done

Fish were flying today

Tomorrow is a down day. Sleeping in and tying bugs, got a couple big streamer orders to fill this week. Booked Tuesday, I'll let ya know how it goes. We've  got Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday open. Still running the deep discount for winter which is crazy because fishing is so fuckin good right now I should be charging folks double.

See ya on the river.

Holy wind batman

Fishing was miserable today but the catching was pretty darn good. Did a half day float with Todd from Wyoming Outdoorsmen in Cody and we hooked about 30 fish including his first ever brown trout and we got the slam with a bunch of rainbows and a couple cutthroat as well as a few whitefish... the sucker weren't very bitey today. We had about an hour of fishing when it wasn't nuking 40mph winds upstream and just kinda hung behind the boat traffic and had to push thru a lot of water but we dinged em all the way down whenever we got a slight reprieve from the "w".

Wyoming Outdoorsmen is having a banquet/auction in Cody on April 2nd and we've donated a full day float trip. Sounds like a great organization that works with WF&G to secure public access. They're even going to improve the parking lot at Wedding for those busy days. Construction starts in April.

Happy guy with a happy rainbow

I asked a couple of Casper guides to leave and take the wind back home with them, so maybe tomorrow will be a little nicer.

Did a lower river float yesterday with the WRCW crew and streamer fishing sucked but we found a few nice fish. Didn't see a single boat and never felt a breath of wind

It was a pleasant day of fishing with good buddies and great guides.

I've got all of next week open and the fishing forecast looks excellent so drop whatever the hell else you're doing and hop in the boat. Give us a call first, operators are standing by.

On the water report

Pretty busy out there for mid week but it looked like most boats were doing well. Streamer fishing started off with a bang and got a couple of these guys

But the action didn't stick so half way thru the day we started nymphing and hooked about 40 of these

Fishing is on feugo right now and frankly you're doing yourself a disservice by not hopping in the front of my boat tomorrow... especially since we're still offering full days for 2 anglers at $350.

Warmth

Forecast for the next couple weeks has highs in the mid forties to fifties... give us a call and let's go fishing. Lots of hungry eager trout out there. The weekends have  been kind of busy and by that I mean 5 or 6 boats. Mid week sees little to no pressure.

Lets go.... brooooncooos

Fishing Report - Bighorn River, WY

Did a lower river float yesterday it was nice to fish some different water, though it was good only in a few spots. And the boat ramps are still very icy.... took us about twenty minutes of chipping ice with the spare oar to get up the ramp last night. Weather has been great the last few days mid thirties to low 40s and the midge have been popping getting those fish active on pupae in the right spots. Not much in the way of dry fly fishing right now but we have seen sporadic rises to midge adults here and there. Nymphing the deep and slow water is the most productive way to catch fish right now, and we're starting to see more browns in the mix whereas a few weeks ago we were only catching rainbows. You just never know what you're gonna lift off the bottom of the river...

Ate the worm.

Fishing Report - Bighorn River, Thermopolis, Wyoming

Flows out of Boysen Reservoir are 825cfs. Water temps are cold. Fishing has been good. Catching a lot of nice fat rainbows nymphing. Red worm and a natural sow bug have been our go-to this week. Other patterns that will work are gray Ray Charles #16, red midge larva #20-22, and black zebra midge or other comparable midge pupa patterns in #18-22. Fish with long leaders (9 foot) and heavy lead and focus on the deep slow water. Fish are stacked in certain holes, take your time in the good water. Watch for ice flows on the lower river north of town and icy boat ramps. Cold snap comes in the next few days but it looks like things will warm up next week. We are still running our off-season special...$100 bucks off full day trips...on the water at 9:30 or 10 and off by 4:00, fishing during the warmest part of the day...lunch included.

This guy zipped around the pool like a steelhead 

winter fishing

Bighorn River, Wyoming 

Long time no update. I was out of the game for a few weeks with a shoulder injury, which happened to be good timing as temperatures were well below freezing. We just returned from Arizona visiting family and then we're headed to Oregon for Christmas to visit more family. Unfortunately fishing isn't on our list of things to do, so we've been hitting it pretty hard the last few days. And fishing has been pretty good, so why should we fish anywhere else?

 Lots of nice fat rainbows on steamers and nymphs. And the fish are definitely stacked in the slow deep water as water temps are very cold. The browns are off the redds but ya might get a few fish to eat the egg. I would focus more on midge larva and pupa and sow bugs or worms for point flies and 9ft leaders.

For streamers we've been using 300 grain sink tip lines and tungsten headed flies to get down deeeeep with slow retrieves combing the troughs and deeper pits. White has been our best color. And we are still seeing a handful of baetis on any given day and plenty of adult midge on the surface, but not very many fish rising. This should change in the coming weeks as the days get longer.

Happy Holidays and we hope to fish with you this year.