ColdWaterFshr Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Very nice. Verry, vera nice. Thanks for the pics. That last one looks like somewhere in the Alps. Cool pics of the cutts, too. Look at the orange on those gill plates and jaws! Love it. Tell those nieces to leave the poor dog out of the plyometrics yoga though. Poor thing looks terrified. And whats with the Hemingway hat you're wearing Al? Seriously?
Greasy B Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Your killing me. His father touches the Claw in spite of Kevin's warnings and breaks two legs just as a thunderstorm tears the house apart. Kevin runs away with the Claw. He becomes captain of the Greasy Bastard, a small ship carrying rubber goods between England and Burma. Michael Palin, Terry Jones, 1974
Al Agnew Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 Very nice. Verry, vera nice. Thanks for the pics. That last one looks like somewhere in the Alps. Cool pics of the cutts, too. Look at the orange on those gill plates and jaws! Love it. Tell those nieces to leave the poor dog out of the plyometrics yoga though. Poor thing looks terrified. And whats with the Hemingway hat you're wearing Al? Seriously? Ever since I lost my favorite hat when we flipped the raft on the Stillwater, I haven't found a suitable replacement. That one's my "hayseed" hat, straw, cool, keeps the sun off my neck and ears, but isn't a true fishing hat. True fishing hats are made of leather and mesh, are stained with everything from sweat to fly floatant, and have more character than that!
Mitch f Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Absolutely perfect pics! But I wondering about tromping thru the various places I'm looking at and I'm thinking CHIGGERS! Do you have any up there? "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
Mark Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Awesome pics! Hope Mary is feeling better! Just curious Al, how do you handle people wade fishing on your property? Or does it just not happen in that part of the country? I've been playing some golf with Clint - he's on our league team - good guy!
Al Agnew Posted July 23, 2013 Author Posted July 23, 2013 Mitch, no chiggers and very few ticks, which is one of the really nice things about out here in the summer, the other nice thing being that even with air temps in the 90s as long as you're in the shade it's very comfortable because of the lack of humidity. Mark, basically you just have to accept that people will be wading the river next to the house. Like Missouri law is supposed to be, Montana law is that anywhere within the river's high banks, the public has a right to wade and fish. Fortunately, most of the people floating the river don't bother to stop and wade through the smaller channel that runs next to the house. And for whatever reason, there are very few river dorks on the Yellowstone, and the ones that are there are simply floating by in rafts or inner tubes. There may be 100 different boatloads of people going by the house on a nice weekend day, but absolutely none of them have ever been obnoxious. The difference between this and Missouri streams is striking. There's one kid who lives a few hundred yards upstream who comes down and fishes the island, builds forts out of the driftwood, and otherwise messes around, almost always by himself, along the river. He reminds me of me when I was a kid and I'm happy to see him doing that instead of playing video games all day. His dad occasionally comes with him or walks the dog, and has fished the island a few times. My closest neighbor fishes the island about once a month. Otherwise, once the water goes down to where the driftboats and rafts can't run "my" channel, I almost never see anybody fishing it.
Terrierman Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 Very nice Al. We recently took a trip to the Wind River area. I am a total rookie at fly fishing but even so I managed to catch a few with the help of the local fly shop. The biggest fish I caught was a 14.5" cut throat in the Double Cabin area. Caught it on a parachute adams after watching it rising in a little side chute of the main flow(s). Later that week I fished the outlet from Brooks lake. It was loaded with some kind of suckers, stocked rainbow lake escapees and a few cutthroats. I hooked and broke off a really nice rainbow, way bigger than the cutt from Double Cabin. There I was fishing some kind of dual purpose dry/wet that a guy who walked up the creek gave me. They were hitting it wet, after the dry drift was over gave it a little twitch to pull it under and let the current swing it. Fish would hit it when it got almost but not quite dead downstream. Never did get a chance to fish the Wind River, it rained twice while we were there, and it came up a couple of feet and was opaque. Didn't see any bears, but did see a big pile of bear crap. Which was plenty for me being a flatlander and all. I like that country. But next time I think I will fly. That's a long drive. I liked it up there.
Greasy B Posted July 23, 2013 Posted July 23, 2013 There may be 100 different boatloads of people going by the house on a nice weekend day, but absolutely none of them have ever been obnoxious. The difference between this and Missouri streams is striking. This comment begs to be repeated. Thanks Al, His father touches the Claw in spite of Kevin's warnings and breaks two legs just as a thunderstorm tears the house apart. Kevin runs away with the Claw. He becomes captain of the Greasy Bastard, a small ship carrying rubber goods between England and Burma. Michael Palin, Terry Jones, 1974
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