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    A recent string of cold days and even colder nights has delayed the snow melt, and the river level has dropped almost daily for nearly a week. As a result, fishing conditions were as close to perfect as one could expect at this time of year, and the Mother's Day Caddis hatch brought scores of fish to the surface the past couple days here in Paradise Valley.

    There was a point yesterday in the early afternoon, when there were so many caddis in the air that it was difficult to see anything except those masses of caddis flying upstream, much less see through them to the river and rising fish.

    I probably fished a good solid 8 hours yesterday, with rising fish, and willing takers, the entire time. I took a break for a short time at dinner, then went back out for a couple hours at about 6:00 pm and literally hooked a fish on what seemed like nearly every cast or two.

    If you have a chance to be in this area, I expect there will still be good fishing today, but the weather is warming up, the snow is once again melting, and the river is on the rise. With the Upper Yellowstone Watershed snowpack now reported at about 160% of normal, it will probably be close to the end of July until the river again goes down to safe fishable levels.

    John

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    John,

    Congrats on hitting the hatch before runoff turns the river into Yoohoo; any chance you have any pics? Love those snowpack numbers; as long as it's not a hot spring, there should be good water levels throughout the summer.


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    Scott

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    Scott -

    No pictures, unfortunately. I kept thinking about getting my IPad out yesterday to take a couple quick pictures since it was just a few steps away, but there were times when I suspect the entire picture would have just looked black, or nearly so, from all the caddis. However, the fishing was too good to take time out for pictures, so you'll just have to imagine what it looked like.

    Anyway, there are still lots of caddis today as well, but not as many as yesterday, but the river flow increased about 20% and I didn't see nearly as many risers the couple times I looked at the river. I should have fished today, as this was probably the last day of fishing we'll have in the river for some time, but my wife and I went shopping to Bozeman instead.

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