Category: Fishing

Yellowstone Natl Park – Sunday June 11, 2017

Back inside the park and fished the Madison Campground area.  This time I fished the other side of the river.

I parked up by the bridge and used the bridge to get on the other side of the river.  I used my new waders while fishing where the Gibbons and Firehole Rivers meet, this creates the Madison River.  The river coming in from the right is the Gibbons River and the river coming in from the bottom is the Firehole River.
I spent quite a while fishing this area of the Firehole and caught 6 fish.  It was a good day with a 30 minute rain shower.

Bakers Hole Campground, Fly Fishing – Thursday June 8, 2017

I was 31 years old when I took this picture of my hiking boots looking at Mt. Olympus in Olympic National Park.  We started at Soleduck Hot Spring, carrying a 100 pound pack up to the High Divide across the Cat Walk to Mt. Carrie.  The valley below between us and Mt. Olympus is the Hoh River Valley.
This picture was taken today at 67 years old, my new wading boots setting in front of my motorhome after a day of fly fishing in Yellowstone National Park on the Firehole and Madison Rivers.

Today I want back into the park and fished the Firehole River.

Bakers Hole Campground – West Yellowstone, MT – Tuesday June 6, 2017

We spent most of the day looking at campgrounds and fishing access points on the Madison River between here and Ennis, MT.
Drove 168 miles and this is what we found:

The river is currently unfishable from where we are now to I-90.
Fishing Access Site (FAS) Valley Garden by Ennis has several sites but road is in bad shape.
FAS Ennis just south of Ennis has have a dozen sites right on the river, 7 days, $12.00 a night.
FAS Varney Bridge has 7 sites 1-2 bars of cell, 7 days, $12.00 a night. is 4 miles of gravel road off Hwy 287.
Ruby Creek Campground BLM is a big campground with really nice sites, 1 bar cell, 14 days, water available, $6.00 a night with Old Guy Pass.  Good gravel road
FAS Palisades 15 nice sites right on the river, 1 bar cell, 14 days, no current water (not turned on), 14 days, $4.00 a night with Old Guy Pass.
FAS Reynolds Pass has 7 sites right on the river, river very narrow at this point, not a good place for us.

We will be staying at Bakers Hole for another week.  I can fish here and will go back into the park and also fish there, at least the water is clear, to high but clear.  At this point I think we will go to Palisades for two weeks and then two days to drive to Tanya, Mike and Jack’s.

Internet is really bad this morning hopefully this will post.

 

Bakers Hole Campground – Wednesday May 31, 2017

We left Yellowstone this morning and drove 19 miles to Bakers Hole FS Campground 4 miles north of West Yellowstone.  We are in site 63 only a few feet from the Madison River. This site does not have electricity but it has the view and with our portable solar panel and generator we are fine.  We can stay here for 16 night at $8.00 a night.  Signed up for seven nights to start and the level fishing will decide what we will do next.

View out the couch windows. 

Spring Trip Wrap Up and Fishing – June 15, 2016

We started our Spring travels going to Mariner’s Spring training and finished up in Yellowstone for two weeks.   We’ll leave in August for Zion and Albuquerque, New Mexico Balloon Festival.

Motor Home miles: 4864
Tow car miles: 1619  with 647 of those miles in Yellowstone
Gas: 780 gallons

Yellowstone trip fuel priced ranged from $2.22 to $2.73 306 gallons.

In the last two years we have traveled 18,159 miles in the motor home and 5,349 in our tow car.

Fishing
This is the largest lowland’s lake trout I have ever caught – 17 inches, 1.5 pounds. I have this picture thanks to Jeremy and Steven who came with me on Monday.  I got a BIG fish however fishing was slow.
Here are the two fish I caught Monday June 13, 2016.
Here are the fish from today (Wednesday June 15, 2016).  When the fish are biting it’s easy, I was off the lake at 9:30.  The one on the left is 15 inches and weighed 1 1/4 pounds.