by Baughb » September 10th, 2011, 11:47 am
Well the trip was great! I hired a guide named Nate through the Slide Inn; Nate runs Trout On The Fly guide service. We did the wade and float sections and it rocked. Not a high fish count but, I remember each one especially the huge brown that had us running downstream to keep up. The best results came from obscenely huge streamers through deep buckets. Good day and I learned a lot. And yes, fishing it on my own was too fun as well and I will always be delightfully surprised of how big fish hang in such tiny buckets and side channels.
But as important... The Campfire for breakfast (along the Madison between the lakes) and the Grizzly for dinner (about 4 miles downstream of the $3 bridge) great food at both places.
Spent a couple of days on Flat Creek in Jackson as well. I'd have to be rich to live there because I could spend all day head hunting along that creek. Stunningly beautiful cutthroats that rise to tiny flies but will tackle a hopper with great enthusiasm.
No fish pics because I just get too excited to release the beauties plus the DSLR is heavy.
Thanks for the suggestions and the chart.
Bob
"He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman."