Nice day, got out for a 3 mile walk and some sunshine. The river has cleared some.
Tomorrow we move five miles up the river to Palisades CG for 3 or 4 days.
Will not have any internet but should have texting on Jean’s phone.
Category: Fishing
Madison River, MT – Ruby Creek – Saturday June 8, 2019
Friday nights forecast calls for 3-5 inches of snow,
It started snowing at 8:00, we put in the slides and the electrical panel power relay started working so we had electric heat for the evening.
Saturday morning we woke to an inch of snow.
Up the valley south of us you could see they got a lot more snow then we did.
We went to the Ennis library on Friday and I got caught up from the Big Hole River.
May 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and June 2.
Madison River, MT – Ruby Creek – Thursday June 6, 2019
Happy Birthday Stine.
You cannot see the wind but it is blowing 20-35 mph all day. Blowing so hard I had to be careful it didn’t blowing my glasses off. The slides have been in all day and will be that way tonight.
The river is pretty dirty here but not to bad up at Three Dollar Bridge. 100% chance of rain tomorrow so we’ll see it goes, wind is supposed to be down 83° today 53° tomorrow.
Madison River, MT – Ruby Creek CG – Wednesday June 5, 2019
We moved looking for more fish. We had ZERO cellphone while we were on the Big Hole River, it was a great place and I will go back and fill in the blog.
Today’s drive
I could not get the window on the left to close, touch screens can be a challenge.
We are in the same site as last year, starting June 17, 2018.
Current plan is to fish this area until June 24th.
Big Hole River, MT – Anaconda Sportsman’s Club – Sunday June 2, 2019
I got three Brown’s today, 8, 12 and 10 inches long. The first one was on a black and silver midge, after I netted it, it went out the bottom of my net before I could get my camera out.
The 12 and 10 were both on a size 14 Parachute Adams right after the afternoon hatch started.
Big Hole River, MT – Anaconda Sportsman Club – Thursday May 30, 2019
Pictures will be posted later from my laptop, this is from IPad.
These are fish I caught Tuesday 5/28, haven’t got anything in a couple of days. Fished after lunch and got 3 fish one 14 inches and two 12 inches. Two brown trout and one brook trout (I think). Sunny afternoon with small caddis hatch at 2:15.
Big Hole River, MT – Anaconda Sportsman Club – Wednesday May 29, 2019
I actually caught this fish the first evening we were here, a 12 inch Mountain White fish.
Fishing was slow for me and the folks floating the river, water is up a little. Nice warm sunny day. This is the first day we had the heat turned off during the day and not turned back on in the evening. Charged the batteries with the solar panel for the first time this trip. 32 degrees outside this morning and got up to 70.
I went up on the roof looking for a small leak we say at Post Falls, ID. Did not see anything obvious but resealed around a couple of clearance lights.
Big Hole River, MT – Anaconda Sportsman Club – Tuesday May 28, 2019
Project day, need to finish the two fly rod tubes I put in the long outside compartment.
Big Hole River, MT – Anaconda Sportsman Club – Monday May 27, 2019
Pictures Took 10 minutes to upload these while at Ruby Creek with slow cell service.
This is a nice place they will deliver water to your RV and they have outhouses, no garbage. It is a non profit and you pay by donation. I think we will be here until next Monday or Tuesday so we gave them $100.00. I can fish right here at the park and will not have to drive.
Barrett, MT / Dillon – Sunday May 26, 2019
Change of plans, talked to a local guy this afternoon and he said the Big Hole River north of Dillon was fishing really well.
Not sure if we well have any cell serve while we are there.