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Bighorn River Fishing Report – Flushing April 9
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 […]
Bighorn River Fishing report
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 […]
Bighorn River Dropping to 8,000 CFS this afternoon.
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 […]