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The upper Yellowstone River rises in northwestern Wyoming near Younts Peak at the Continental Divide in southwestern Park County. It flows northward some 25 miles (40 km) through Yellowstone National Park and into draining Yellowstone Lake. The upper Yellowstone is a meandering, many-channeled stream with a clean gravel or sand-silt bottom.
There are 3 branches to the Provo River, the lower, middle, and upper. Washington. Yakima River [34] West Virginia. Cheat River; Lost River; Mill Run; Wyoming. Yellowstone National Park: Firehole River - Fly fishing only in Yellowstone National Park [18] Gibbon River - Fly fishing only below Gibbon Falls [18] [35] [36] Lamar River - Major river ...
The Yellowstone cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii bouvieri) inhabits the Yellowstone River drainage from the headwaters to Yellowstone Lake north to the park boundary at Gardiner, MT to include the Lamar River drainage. It has been widely stocked in park lakes previously barren of fish.
Soda Butte Creek is an approximately 20 miles (32 km) long major tributary of the Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park. It is named for a now-extinct geyser (Soda Butte) near its mouth. Soda Butte and the creek were named by A. Bart Henderson, a Cooke City miner, in 1870. [3]
While in West Yellowstone, he had heard of a tackle shop for sale. In 1952, Lilly purchased the shop and "Bud Lilly's Fly Shop" was born. [4] The shop gathered information about local fishing conditions, provided a space for fishermen to congregate, and offered fly fishing services and items like tackle and flies. [4]
Yellowstone Country Flies, (2013) Wiese [1] Parks' Salmonfly is a traditional dry fly imitating adults of the family of giant stoneflies or salmonflies ( Pteronarcyidae ). The most commonly imitated species is Pteronarcys californica or salmonfly common throughout Western North America from British Columbia to California.
By the 1890s, the Yellowstone cutthroat trout fishery in the Yellowstone River and Yellowstone Lake were well known and being promoted in national guidebooks. Fishing Grounds.—In the river at the lake outlet are the fishing grounds, about a mile from the hotel, while at many places between the lake and canyon excellent fishing is had from shore.
Parks' Fly Shop Richard Parks, Typical work day, Yellowstone River, 1980. The fly shop was one of the first in the region to offer guided float fishing on the Yellowstone River. In 1955, Merton guided his first float clients in a war surplus rubber raft, but quickly transitioned to wooden rowboats and eventually aluminum jon boats.