Streamers on full sinking lines

JR wrote:
jeff wrote:

you did recognize the area in which he caught the fish, didn't you.
"miller's archipelago"!! g


Didn't want to blow yer secret spot.....

You still planning on going sometime in July?

- JR

i'm set for july 8-18. arrive in bozeman late at night on the 8th, then
staying at the howlin mad moon the 9th through 11th...have to find a
spot on the 12th...then back to howlin on the 13th. move to the slide
inn on the 14th, 15th, 16th, back to bozeman on the 17th and leave early
morning 18th. every place booked up early this year. even yellowstone is
full, except a few of those primitive roosevelt cabins over near slough
creek. the slide had a crazy quilt of single nights available by
changing among the cabins (the expensive ones) between the 9th and 11th.
couldn't get a full week there, so i'm spending time down the road about
4 miles at howlin, beside the den restaurant. don't know how it will
turn out, but it will be something new and different. i think we ate at
the den once. the grizzly (you and i ate there one evening) closed and
no one knows if it will reopen... kelly is offering a meal plan for
slide guests only...but the $35 a day for it seemed a bit steep
considering the need to continue the breakfast ritual at that place by
cabin creek.

you thinking of coming over?

jeff

"jeff" wrote


arrive in bozeman late at night on the 8th, then
staying at the howlin mad moon the 9th through 11th...have to find a spot
on the 12th...then back to howlin on the 13th. move to the slide inn on
the 14th, 15th, 16th, back to bozeman on the 17th and leave early morning
18th.



Do you fish only the "unknown river" and it's "miller's archipelago" ?

I have arthritis in an ankle that makes "unknown river" access generally
more painful than fun. I go over there a day or two each year, just for
"been there done that" rights, but it isn't a favorite with me. I'm
likely to be camped somewhere over around Last Chance that whole time
period if you get lonely, and want to be frustrated by fish, as opposed to
catch fish. I say "likely to be" because exact plans and fishing seem a bit
bitter when mixed ... at least to my taste.

Larry L wrote:

"jeff" wrote


arrive in bozeman late at night on the 8th, then

staying at the howlin mad moon the 9th through 11th...have to find a spot
on the 12th...then back to howlin on the 13th. move to the slide inn on
the 14th, 15th, 16th, back to bozeman on the 17th and leave early morning
18th.




Do you fish only the "unknown river" and it's "miller's archipelago" ?

I have arthritis in an ankle that makes "unknown river" access generally
more painful than fun. I go over there a day or two each year, just for
"been there done that" rights, but it isn't a favorite with me. I'm
likely to be camped somewhere over around Last Chance that whole time
period if you get lonely, and want to be frustrated by fish, as opposed to
catch fish. I say "likely to be" because exact plans and fishing seem a bit
bitter when mixed ... at least to my taste.



hi larry - each year out there i wonder where you might be. i'll keep
an lookout this year and try to make it down to hf.

actually, i prefer the other streams, especially in the park and spend a
lot of time there...gibbon, nez perce, slough, soda butte, gardner,
yellowstone. haven't done the lamar or pebble, but they are on my list.
i have fished hf (poorly), usually back in the ranch area, hiking
upstream from that bridge, and the warm river (one of my favorite trips
with warren) and robinson. i like moving around and seeing different
stuff...but, when the salmon flies and caddis are in bloom, well that
stretch of the madison can't be beat for big fish top water action.

please stay in touch...it would be great to finally meet you and to
observe a bit of your efforts in solving the great mystery. i've
enjoyed your web journal, but i suspect real time will be even more
pleasant.

jeff

"jeff" wrote

....it would be great to finally meet you and to
observe a bit of your efforts in solving the great mystery.



"solve the great mystery" !!! crap now ya got me nervous ... let's be
clear here .... I SUK as a fly fisherman



fwiw, "your" time frame is often one when the always tough and technical
Ranch gets very slow to boot. The Flavs are over, the callibaetis and
ants ain't arrived yet, the weather is too "good" to make the PMDs a
reliable hatch and only the spinner falls and some caddis can be "counted
on." Without bugs, and the right bugs in the right quantity, the Ranch
is nearly hopeless. If we get together, the Madison or a trip into the
Park probably makes more predictable sense .... I "don't mind" getting
skunked a few days in a row on the Ranch but I'm not on a two week vacation

I'm actually toying with the idea of moving to the Missouri about mid-July
for two weeks .... I understand it's starting to fade and fall out of
popularity, which would be a great improvement for the place. The few
times I've fished there it had incredible numbers of rising fish and only
slightly greater numbers of drift boats, each with a full load of "count and
whoop" style fishermen. And the "rest of the day" ain't much there as
it runs by a freeway and there is little in the way of "pretty" near by ....
but it does have lots of very big trout ... lots.


Anyway, the Ranch is what it is and a sparse few of us genuinely love it.
But most people I meet are just there "place name collecting" The North
Fork of the Snake aka, Henry's Fork, has provided me with more truly great
fishing memories AND more days being soundly defeated than any river I've
fished ... and I've been to the majority of the more popular Western
'destinations" It's not a place to spend a single day taking hero pictures
to show around the office, rather one to patiently study and treasure over
time.

jeff wrote:

you thinking of coming over?

I want to go sometime over the summer and the period 8-18 July is
as good a time as any, I suppose. If I make it, I guess I'll try
to find a campsite at Cabin Creek.

Doesn't the bacon-of-the-gods place have cabins too?

- JR

JR wrote:

jeff wrote:


you thinking of coming over?


I want to go sometime over the summer and the period 8-18 July is
as good a time as any, I suppose. If I make it, I guess I'll try
to find a campsite at Cabin Creek.

Doesn't the bacon-of-the-gods place have cabins too?

- JR




it does...campfire lodge resort ... but i already tried, and it's
booked. danl and willi camped in a more remote, and i think prettier,
less crowded area on that other creek (beaver creek?) nearby. i think
it was free. also...there is probably camping room in my places at mad
moon and slide (there's an extra bed in the room i have on the night of
the 14th), and you're welcome to any open spot on the floor... i'm still
trying to find a spot for the night of the 12th though.

jeff