Part Three, Grays River, Murphy Lake And Murphy Creek

[BilletHead]

Time to leave the Green,

Plan was to head over a forest service road to the grays river. So back South on 191/189 to Daniel Junction, then hit 189 through the town of Daniel to 117- to 129 which is North Cottonwood road. Took this road to FR (forest road) 10125 up and over MCDougal Gap. Then back down the mountian to the Greys River road which runs along the greys. I will say busy, busy, busy along the greys. You can camp about anywhere in the forest but we could hardly find a place to camp. Finally did, set up and I yanked a couple of small cutthroats out of the greys. Spent the night there but here again too busy for this guy. This is my escape from combat fishing here in Missouri and the less I have to bump into folks the more I like it. I would say 99% of the plates on cars were from Utah and California. Studied the map more for another plan?

Looked for another place to put the kayaks in, found a small lake called Murphy lake so off of Greys river road we took FR 10002 up Murphy creek to the lake. What a little gem! No one there although you could see it had been used a bunch. One thing I have learned is that mose folks out there don't go early but we are earlybirds. Unloaded the kayaks, grabbed the rods, hit the paddles and started fishing. Caught on small dries but the hot ticket was smallish leeach and bugger patterns with a small nymph trailing.

Fish on and caught!

We caught quite a few of these snake River Cutthroat (fine spot) here. When we quit and i got back I turned to hear and see Mrs. Billethead squeal as Sadie fell off her Kayak. She said what shall I do, let her swim in which she did. Kind of funny and did not bother the dog at all.

Loaded back up and headed farther up Murphy creek and that will be the next post. Are you all getting tired of this yet? Too bad more to come.

BilletHead

BilletHead