My Life and Travels
Drove to Three Dollar Bridge which is supposed to be one of the best places to wade fish the river.
The GPS points look like I jumped back and forth across the river when in fact I stayed on one side of the river. There was way to much water to wade all the way across. I did not have a strike nor did I see anyone catch a fish.
The wind came up last night and blew hard all day, warm but windy. I have a hell of a cold and spent all day in bed.
I fished for a couple of hours today, had a nice fish on and one other strike.
With barbless hooks they are hard to keep on the line when they jump out of the water. No caddis hatch yet.
We are moving from Beaverhead River to the Madison River in hopes that fishing will have improved.
The drive:
We are at the Palisades BLM Campground 28 miles south of Ennis, Montana. This is the same campground we spend two weeks last year.
A nice spot right on the river.
This morning before we left Beaverhead I called the BLM office which covers this area to see if the water system they were working on last June was working. I talked to two people, the first one didn’t know the second said the campground did not have water and since it didn’t have water the price is $8.00 a night. On the way today we stopped at Walmart in Butte and then Lewis and Clark Caverns Campground to dump and get water.
When we got to the campground I found out the campground price is $12.00 because they now have water. This is a BLM campground so we get the Old Guy price of $6.00.
This car truck accident was just ahead of use a mile and a half north of Ennis.
Had a good time fishing for the first hour or so, then the wind came up and could not keep the hooks and line out of the brush.
When I got to the parking area it sounded like it was going to be great day. Their was a guy who was come back to his truck to get a heavier rod. He had hooked an amazing fish on his first cast of the day and was unable to land it so he was coming back for heavier rod.
I did not see any fish or have any strikes. After lunch I ran into the guy from the parking lot, he was with two other people and one fish they got first thing in the day was the only fish they saw.
10 minute map.
Uploaded data map.
Where I was from the campground.
I got to go fishing today. The guide we talked to will at the Bighorn River said the rivers were flowing at a 100 year level and the Beaverhead River was the best bet for fishing.
The water is clear but I did not have one strike, saw two.
I did track by fishing with the InReach satellite system.
This track is from the units 10 minute tracking. Every 10 minutes it transmits it’s location to a satellite and it is record real time on a view able map.
The InReach unit records where it is each minute and stores that information inside the unit. I can upload this information to the mapping system through my laptop.
Here is that map.
I don’t know why it produces the false locations like to ones high on the map away from the river, but sometimes it does.
Happy Birthday to my daughter-in-law Christine.
Stopped at Les Schwab in Butte to get the flat tire fixed. They fixed the tire everything else was subpar work. People who know how to do their job are getting hard to find. One tech worked hard but had limited knowledge, the other was arrogant and lazy.
Today’s drive:
We are at Barrett Park south of Dillon.
Campground road, railroad (two tracks), I-15 so far not to noisy.
Having some great lighting while I’m writing this.
It took a while this morning to get the tire changed, but the spare was good and we are moving. On our way to Les Schwab in Butte to get the tire fixed or replace.
This also happens to be in the direction I want to go for fishing.
Campsite
Heading west to Montana looking for water without mud.
Campsite right at the boat launch, I stopped here to go look at the campground area and notice we had a flat outside dual tire.
Campsite pictures
Turtle came by
I will go over our experience with AAA later. Customer service over the phone is mostly worthless, AAA call center in Utah said I was fifty miles away from one of their contract provides so I just needed to fix it myself.
Spent some time walking around area.
The three rivers are Jefferson Madison Gallatin which form the Missouri River.
View out the side door.
Thursday I think we will drive half way to the Badlands stopping at The Little Bighorn Natl Monument.