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MONTANA
&
YELLOWSTONE
OUTFITTER
Lefty anGler & flies
Satoshi Yamamoto - Livingston, MT
INNOVATIVE TROUT FLIES
&
ATLANTIC SALMON FLY
FRAMES
Here comes Lefty's official publication
"Atlantic Salmon Flies of Major Traherne" (LINK)!!
LEFTY is on Podcast (LINK)!!
06/23/2025: Prime summer fishing has arrived!!
The annual Pale Morning Dun hatches on the spring creeks have started just as we wish. T
Yellowstone River is clearing up and in fact it's already fishing well!!
Please call, text, and email me with any questions.
The Second & Completely Revised Edition of "Trout Foods & Flies For Livingston's Spring Creeks" is SOLD OUT!
Hope to reprint next year.....

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Summer Summary
As the Labor Day weekend ended, well, Montana summer seems to have ended as well. From the mid August, it has been a mixed bag of...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Sep 3, 20241 min read
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Wasatch Fly Fishing Expo 2024
Wasatch Expo, held in the Great Salt Lake area, was quite busy and fun. This is my third consecutive year to attend as a vendor. I...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Mar 18, 20241 min read
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2023 Season Coming To The End.......
I apologize for the lack of blog updates. Matter of fact, I thought last time I did would be in July, up until I start to create this...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Dec 4, 20231 min read
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Guide Trip Scenes - August 2023
The momentum of July rolled into August. Besides being perhaps the best and the most enjoyable season, it's been a "BIG FISH" season as...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Sep 5, 20231 min read
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Fly Box Thoughts & 2023 Guide Season Has Begun
Among all the fly fishing equipment and gadgets, are there any categories that you can NEVER find the best or the most suitable?? Have...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Jun 21, 20233 min read
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Wasatch Fly Fishing Expo 2023
What a great trip to The Great Salt Lake City area and what a wonderful/busy show the Wasatch Intermountain Fly Fishing Expo 2023 was!!...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Apr 23, 20232 min read
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August End & September In
Each year as I age, my wet wading season, i.e., no wader but bootie and boots, is getting shorter. Exceptions have been the last year and...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Sep 6, 20221 min read
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August Fishing Report
It’s hot 🥵. It may not be as hot as last year but it feels hot days are continuing longer than normal years and the last year. As August...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Aug 14, 20222 min read
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Yellowstone River Update
As July rolls, it's been a great summer. Here in Livingston, we are getting thunderstorm warnings almost daily however it seems dark...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Jul 9, 20222 min read
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Spring Creek Fishing Report
For the past two years, all over the world, it was "before & after COVID" then "new normal". This year, here in Livingston, it's been...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Jul 2, 20222 min read
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Flood Receded And Then........
The "100-year flood" (depending on what and where you read at social media, you might see "500-year" or "1000-year") of Monday June 13th...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Jun 18, 20222 min read
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Flood of 2022
By now many a US citizen, flyfishers or not, have seen and heard about the historical, if not “biblical”!, floods that are hitting south...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Jun 14, 20221 min read
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Spring Guide Trips
As May rolls in, weathers have been still funny and unpredictable. However fishing has been good, some of the best and most enjoyable...
Satoshi Yamamoto
May 7, 20221 min read
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Wasatch Fly Fishing Expo 2022
Wasatch Intermountain Fly Fishing Expo 2022 (https://wasatchexpo.com) was held in the huge venue, Mountain America Expo Center, in Sandy,...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Apr 12, 20222 min read
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October Fishing 2
It’s been a great weather (till next post😅) and fishing is good most part of the day. But I don’t think the fall baetis has really...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Oct 11, 20211 min read
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Fall Colors, Fall Actions
Although as of this weekend we’re enjoying Indian Summer days (high in 80Fs), the fall has settled in the Yellowstone Country. Morning is...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Sep 26, 20210 min read
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Euro Nymphing: Evolution or Hybrid!? & Myth Busting
I do have my own favorite styles and situations of fly-fishing, meaning I would choose a certain time of the year, particular weather,...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Sep 11, 20215 min read
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Hoot-Owl LIFTED on Yellowstone River
This just came in!! With this, my outfit/guide service goes back to the “normal” operation - hard define what is NORMAL nowadays but…….....
Satoshi Yamamoto
Aug 23, 20211 min read
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Summer Ends!?
I was back to the Yellowstone float trips over the weekend. It was still the similar high summer condition as with the past few posts and...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Aug 16, 20211 min read
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Bighorn Guide Trip
Bighorn River lives and runs with its own legend😲. After a few years of high-water and fish-count hiatus, the river is re-establishing...
Satoshi Yamamoto
Aug 10, 20211 min read
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