Trip Report, Mr. And Mrs. Billethead In Wyoming First Two Days Of Fishing

[BilletHead]

Two weeks of vacation in Wyoming, Part one. First two days of fly fishing. Left on a Friday afternoon at 2 PM. Drove most of the night finally crashing in Eastern Colorado for a four hour nap. Up after that to meet the Son and his family North of Denver for a breakfast with them. Nice visit and then back on the road. Hit Pinedale Wyoming that Evening. Bought our fishing license and got a good lights sleep in a campground. Hit the road to the upper Green River lakes. The start of the Green River. Long washboard road, slow going. Got there and picked a campsite. Then down to the lake to launch the kayaks.

Got on the water. Started throwing leach and buggers, trailing a small nymph. No hits. Hopper and dropper along the bank. No hits. Pretty late in the morning for any hatch. Finally set a couple of heavy nymphs about seven foot deep under an indacator and hit a drop off where there was some current at the lake output where the green starts. Picked up a little lake trout and a rainbow.

More photos of the first trip on the water.

Then a Evening on the lake. Hatches of about everything, three sizes of mayflys and two sizes of caddis. Fish would come up and hit four or five times in a place. You would paddle to the places of the hits, down the fish would go and then up in another place. We tried and I missed two hits. The whole lake was glass smooth and fish would rise everywhere you looked but no constant spot. Nice Evening none the less.

Campsite and view from there.

Next morning time to move. A few miles going back down from the lake we could see fish rising from the road, got to stop and take advantage of this. We both caught ten or more small rainbows and a couple of small browns here plus a bunch of whitefish.

No time for photos when you are both catching!

Then down a bit farther down the river for a night. Slower water No hatch to speak of. Did manage more whitefish and a small Brookie,. Check out the duckling. There were hundreds of ducks being raised here plus geese. I thought this guy was small for this time of the year but he wasn't the only one.

Next installment coming soon, fishing will be getting better I promise,

BilletHead

[Daryk Campbell Sr]

Living the dream!! Congrats sounds like a lot of fun.

[BilletHead]

It is and feels like a dream Daryk!

billethead

[ness]

Sweet! Looks like a nice setup you've got there.

The pine beetle damage catches my eye. Dang.

[BilletHead]

Pine beetle damage was bad Ness. Least amount was in the BigHorns. Later on in the trip,

BilletHead