Lookin for advice about Yellowstone inSept

wrote:

My brother, sone and I are going to Yelowstone after labor day. What
advice do you have for us?

Make a stop at Indian Creek in the park. It's got willing brookies
and you don't have to hike far from the road to get some action.

Check out the Gallatin just outside the park for the scenery almost
as much as the fishing.

There's a nice spot on the Madison near the Raynold's Pass bridge
that a couple of ROFFians might tell you about. But then they'd have to
kill you.

Be sure to eat at the Happy Hour Bar on Hebgen Lake. Try their
garlic burger or buffalo burger and the onion rings. Wash it down with
a pint or four of Moose Drool.

Be prepared for anything from clear weather with temperatures in the
upper 70's or 80's, to overcast and near freezing. I was fishing the
Firehole at Biscuit Basin in early September when a freak snowstorm blew
through. It didn't last, but it sure added to the ambience.

Be prepared for the wind to blow constantly. Just hope that every
once in a while it will blow to your advantage when casting, or try to
time your casts between gusts.


Chuck Vance (also, I hear Fawn Lake is nice that time of year)

"Conan The Librarian" wrote

Be sure to eat at the Happy Hour Bar on Hebgen Lake. Try their garlic
burger or buffalo burger and the onion rings. Wash it down with a pint or
four of Moose Drool.

i heartily join in the recco for the happy hour. neat place. gorgeous
sunset in july.



Chuck Vance (also, I hear Fawn Lake is nice that time of year)

what tomfoolery. my guide, the bellweather of the yellowstone, fab
forty, assures me that the acres of weeds that comprise fawn lake have
turned an unattractive brown by that time of year...

yfitons
wayno(but a couple punkins and a witches broom might rescue the situation)

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:53:00 -0500, Conan The Librarian wrote:

snip

Be prepared for anything from clear weather with temperatures in the
upper 70's or 80's, to overcast and near freezing. I was fishing the
Firehole at Biscuit Basin in early September when a freak snowstorm blew
through. It didn't last, but it sure added to the ambience.


First, a confession. I've lived within a couple of hundred miles of the
park all of my life, yet have never fished there. So with that out of the
way, here's a little experience with the seasonal weather.

Conan is in the ballpark about the range of wx conditions, but stretch it
out on both ends by a few tens of degrees. After Labor Day until the snow
starts to STICK is the best time of year in Yellowstone, but be equipped
for anything from 90 to well below freezing. It can snow (and has) any day
of the year in Yellowstone. Probably won't get those road-closing feet of
snow in any given storm until at least mid-October.

Some cousins of mine were trapped at Old Faithful Inn for three days a few
years ago in mid-October. Radio reception there is not great, there's one
fuzzy channel on the tv, no satellite service, no cable, but an awful lot
of old decks of cards and board games and a piano in the lobby. They and
about a hundred of their new friends from all around the world spent quite
a bit of time playing checkers and gin and whatever until the plows could
get the roads open.

Have a great trip, and don't feed yourself to the bears......

Dan in Wyoming

DB Rea wrote:

On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:53:00 -0500, Conan The Librarian wrote:

Be prepared for anything from clear weather with temperatures in the
upper 70's or 80's, to overcast and near freezing. I was fishing the
Firehole at Biscuit Basin in early September when a freak snowstorm blew
through. It didn't last, but it sure added to the ambience.

First, a confession. I've lived within a couple of hundred miles of the
park all of my life, yet have never fished there.

Good gawd, man ... you shouldn't be admitting something like that on
this group.

So with that out of the
way, here's a little experience with the seasonal weather.

Conan is in the ballpark about the range of wx conditions, but stretch it
out on both ends by a few tens of degrees. After Labor Day until the snow
starts to STICK is the best time of year in Yellowstone, but be equipped
for anything from 90 to well below freezing.

That doesn't surprise me. The conditions I described where what I
experienced in *one* trip. :-)

It can snow (and has) any day
of the year in Yellowstone. Probably won't get those road-closing feet of
snow in any given storm until at least mid-October.

Some cousins of mine were trapped at Old Faithful Inn for three days a few
years ago in mid-October. Radio reception there is not great, there's one
fuzzy channel on the tv, no satellite service, no cable, but an awful lot
of old decks of cards and board games and a piano in the lobby. They and
about a hundred of their new friends from all around the world spent quite
a bit of time playing checkers and gin and whatever until the plows could
get the roads open.

I can think of worse fates than that. :-)


Chuck Vance (though I'd prefer to be *drinking* gin rather than
playing it)