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North Fork Shoshone River
The Shoshone River is a 100-mile (160 km) long river in northern Wyoming, United States. Its headwaters are in the Absaroka Range in Shoshone National Forest. It ends when it runs into the Big Horn River near Lovell, Wyoming. From Wikipedia
- Length
- 100 mi
- Basin
- 2,989 sq mi
- Rises at
- North Fork Shoshone River
- Flows into
- Bighorn River
Flow now
Yellowstone River at Yellowstone Lk Outlet YNP, 22 mi from the river.
498cfsat build, Nov 12, 11 AM MT
The typical week here, from 10 years of record: 503 cfs to 677 cfs, around 563 cfs.
Snowpack
0.7 in of water in the snow at Sylvan Road and 2 more stations, against a median 2.7 in for the date (26 % of normal).
The snowpack here usually builds from Nov 1, peaks Apr 7 and is gone by May 8; runoff follows the melt.
The season, November
Usually workable this week. Pick your window and fish it well.
- Midgessizes 18 to 22
- Small eggs and worms
- Pheasant tail and zebra midge nymphsunder an indicator
Typical for the week over 10 years: 503 to 677 cfs. Running 498 cfs today, inside that range. Flows are not forecast; check the gauge the day before.
Brown Trout are spawning (October to December). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.
Brook Trout are spawning (September to November). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.
Mountain Whitefish are spawning (October to December). The egg bite behind spawning whitefish is the best winter nymphing of the year: an egg pattern below the riffles.
- Egg patterns in the runs below the spawning gravel, never on it.
Written by the app's rules engine from the calendar, the gauge record and the snowpack, not by hand, so it says only what the data says. The weather for the week comes with the app.
Fly shops on this water
- North Fork Anglers CodyWebsiteFishing report, updated Nov 6
Nearby waters
Open North Fork Shoshone River in FlyMaster for today's plan, the flies, and your own log here.
Flows from the U.S. Geological Survey, snowpack from the NRCS SNOTEL network, text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Built Nov 12.
