We floated the Yellowstone River at the end of August.  Unfortunately, the weather didn’t cooperate with us.  There was a huge thunderstorm as we entered Bozeman, Montana the day before our float.  As we put our boat in the water we noticed that the water was murky…only about 1 foot of visibility.

The summer in Montana has been extremely hot with very little rain.  In fact, many of the rivers had limited access for fisherman.  Anyway, we tried to see if we might catch some trout.

We fished hoppers; spanking the bank, nymphs with droppers of pheasant tails and copper johns, a dry and a nymph and various other combinations to no avail.  We only caught a few fish that were very small.

I’d love to find out from others if this is unusual based on the time of year and the weather or if we were doing something wrong with our approach.