Montana Fly Fishing & Bird Hunting

Bureau of Reclamation to Provide Flushing Flow below Yellowtail Dam BILLINGS, MONT.  — The Bureau of Reclamation will provide a flushing flow to the Bighorn River below Yellowtail Dam beginning Monday, April 9.  The flushing flow is being coordinated with Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks as part of a multi-year study aimed at restoring historic [...]

Betty White enters Orvis Dog Contest

  It is fishing extremely well. The flow was at 3,000 cfs on Tuesday and the  water temp was 39-40 degrees at the Afterbay. There has been a lot of dry fly  activity from 10 a.m. on. Fish will take a Griffith’s gnat and cluster midge in  size 16-20. Nymph fishermen should try a pink [...]

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Yellowtail Stakeholders and Interested Parties:  This message is to provide you with notification of Reclamation’s plans to continue reducing our releases from Yellowtail Dam to the Bighorn River.  Inflows are currently averaging about 6,700 cubic-feet per second (cfs), and the reservoir is dropping at a rate of about 0.30 to 0.40 feet per day.   In [...]