More from Yellowstone

The weather has started to warm and I'm in a quandry about where to
spend my time.

The overcast and rainy weather was perfect for the Firehole, but today
is cloudless.

Last year the Madison IN YNP was too hot by early July and it, the
Firehole and the lower Gibbon were shut down to avoid stressing the
fish. THIS year, the Madison in the park hasn't really even started
to produce bugs and the locals I talk to say it's because it's still
too cold. The next few days may be dynamite there as it wakes up.

The ranch section of the HFork has been VERY slow so far. Some people
think the fish just aren't there, having suffered greatly from last
winter's draw down. I tend to think it is still a little too cold,
myself, and will drive down to fish it every third day or so, it could
get awesome soon. When it does, I'll move my trailer to the springs

Today, I think I'm going to go to the lower Madison below Reynolds
bridge and chuck and duck ..... this is pentance for having spent too
much on fly tying materials at Blue Ribbon. I'm told that the
catching is very good now in that area, with nymphs, but sinker and
bobber is always a form of punishment, imho, for some sin, somewhere,
sometime, against the fishing gods. g

A few new logs on my site but I've been playing tourist some and
taking a few days off
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http://www.kimshew.com/flyfish/logs.php

Larry wrote:snip.. this is pentance for having spent too
much on fly tying materials at Blue Ribbon.

Thanks for the series of reports and your logs. I know what you meen about Blue
Ribbon. Just received an e-mail from a friend in Arkansas who shares a soft
hackle addiction. He was just back from Montana and he thanked me for sending
him to Blue Ribbon Flyshop. He also dropped a hundred bucks on soft hackle
materials.

Big Dale

larry - don't know if you're following threads or not, but do you know
anything about streams in the lee metcalf wilderness area, specifically
those in the cabin creek wildlife management area just north of quake lake?

jeff

Larry Linthicum wrote:

The weather has started to warm and I'm in a quandry about where to
spend my time.

In article FVIBc.6894$HN5.38@lakeread06, d
says...
larry - don't know if you're following threads or not, but do you know
anything about streams in the lee metcalf wilderness area, specifically
those in the cabin creek wildlife management area just north of quake lake?


Be@ver Creek is a pretty good cutthroat storm, from where it flows
into Quake Lake all the way up as far as you want to hike.

Kevin

thanks kevin. that's one of the streams i noted...but i was also
looking at all the water and small lakes west and northwest of beaver
creek. looks like a good road runs north by beaver creek, and then a
bunch of smaller forest roads all over the place.

btw... does anyone have a garmin gps map chip for that area?

jeff

Kevin Vang wrote:

In article FVIBc.6894$HN5.38@lakeread06, d
says...

larry - don't know if you're following threads or not, but do you know
anything about streams in the lee metcalf wilderness area, specifically
those in the cabin creek wildlife management area just north of quake lake?



Be@ver Creek is a pretty good cutthroat storm, from where it flows
into Quake Lake all the way up as far as you want to hike.

Kevin

On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:42:31 -0500, Kevin Vang
wrote:

In article FVIBc.6894$HN5.38@lakeread06, d
says...
larry - don't know if you're following threads or not, but do you know
anything about streams in the lee metcalf wilderness area, specifically
those in the cabin creek wildlife management area just north of quake lake?


Be@ver Creek is a pretty good cutthroat storm, from where it flows
into Quake Lake all the way up as far as you want to hike.

Kevin





Hey steve, if you bring the horses this is a good spot to head up into
the high country. Also Red Rock Canyon, I think it's called, down by
Hebgen is nice as well. Both have "good" dirt roads to the trail heads

The upper beaver creek has a few grizz......actually a few years back
I saw a mom and cub on the south bank of Quake lake right across from
where Beaver creek dumps into Quake lake. They get your attention no
matter how far away they seem:-)

Stop at the Quake Lake "museum" it's an interesting but sad story of
one real ****ty Night for some real unlucky folks.
Harry Mason
www.Troutflies.com

In article ,
says...
The upper beaver creek has a few grizz......actually a few years back
I saw a mom and cub on the south bank of Quake lake right across from
where Beaver creek dumps into Quake lake. They get your attention no
matter how far away they seem:-)

One time when we camped at the Be@ver Creek Campground, the
entire east half of the campgroune was closed, because a cow
moose with calf had established residence, and wasn't taking
kindly to visitors.



Stop at the Quake Lake "museum" it's an interesting but sad story of
one real ****ty Night for some real unlucky folks.


I met a guy that was there -- he was part of the crowd of
people who took refuge from the rising water on the hilltop.
He said somebody had a radio, and they tried to get some
kind of news, since nobody knew what the hell was going on.
All they talked about on the radio was some big earthquake
up in Alaska.

Kevin