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"rw" wrote


Quake Lake during a Callibaetis hatch is a good place to be. The dead
trees are surreal. I've never fished Hebgen. It seems too large and
intimidating.



Quake is, indeed, a nice place to fish although my feeling about it vs
Hegben is reversed from yours. Most of the time I've spent on Hebgen has
been on the Madison arm and it feels relatively small and easy to access
rowing my kickboat. The one ramp on Quake seems a long pull away from the
inlet area that has given me my best action. All the dead trees certainly
is surreal and a bit spooky, especially if you're slowing kicking backwards
and run into one under the water G


I have an old ( 35 years? ) Scott 10ft 5wt that has been my stillwater rod,
mostly. But it is a slow action. I'd like to try a long, fast, 5 wt
but I've never had the chance.


Not sure what the next seasons will bring to Hebgen. The fire this
summer burned all the trees off one shore of the Madison arm. I don't
know what effect this will have on the fishery but I'm not betting on a good
one :-(

Larry L wrote:
"rw" wrote


Quake Lake during a Callibaetis hatch is a good place to be. The dead
trees are surreal. I've never fished Hebgen. It seems too large and
intimidating.




Quake is, indeed, a nice place to fish although my feeling about it vs
Hegben is reversed from yours. Most of the time I've spent on Hebgen has
been on the Madison arm and it feels relatively small and easy to access
rowing my kickboat. The one ramp on Quake seems a long pull away from the
inlet area that has given me my best action. All the dead trees certainly
is surreal and a bit spooky, especially if you're slowing kicking backwards
and run into one under the water G

The boat ramp on Quake Lake is another spooky thing. It's the old road
before the earthquake buried the rest of it. There are dead people under
there.

Willi and I ran into an interesting and rather strange guy who turned us
on to Quake Lake. He disdained the Madison and instead fished Quake with
mostly orangish streamer-like flies. He said it was the jit. :-)

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rw wrote:

Larry L wrote:

"rw" wrote


Quake Lake during a Callibaetis hatch is a good place to be. The dead
trees are surreal. I've never fished Hebgen. It seems too large and
intimidating.




Quake is, indeed, a nice place to fish although my feeling about it vs
Hegben is reversed from yours. Most of the time I've spent on
Hebgen has been on the Madison arm and it feels relatively small and
easy to access rowing my kickboat. The one ramp on Quake seems a
long pull away from the inlet area that has given me my best action.
All the dead trees certainly is surreal and a bit spooky, especially
if you're slowing kicking backwards and run into one under the water G


The boat ramp on Quake Lake is another spooky thing. It's the old road
before the earthquake buried the rest of it. There are dead people under
there.

Willi and I ran into an interesting and rather strange guy who turned us
on to Quake Lake. He disdained the Madison and instead fished Quake with
mostly orangish streamer-like flies. He said it was the jit. :-)


gotta be the old coot who is the resident manager at one of those
campsites and part-time dishwasher at the breakfast joint. he disdained
all streams in favor of quake lake. he fished late evening and at
night...told remarkable stories of big fish. i liked the look of that
area. need to go back one day. btw...has anyone heard from warren.
i've sent several e-mails with no response.

jeff

jeff wrote:
rw wrote:

Willi and I ran into an interesting and rather strange guy who turned
us on to Quake Lake. He disdained the Madison and instead fished Quake
with mostly orangish streamer-like flies. He said it was the jit. :-)


gotta be the old coot who is the resident manager at one of those
campsites and part-time dishwasher at the breakfast joint. he disdained
all streams in favor of quake lake. he fished late evening and at
night...told remarkable stories of big fish. i liked the look of that
area. need to go back one day.

Nope, he was a young guy, from Washington State IIRC, staying at the
campground with a friend. Stoners. They were really into lake fishing.
He gave us some good tips about fishing Quake and lakes in general.

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