Fishing trip
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I’d go to Utah too! 🙂
Seriously, there are a number of trips I’d like to do. I’d like to spend some time up in Montana, and I’d like to do some salmon and steelhead fishing in Washington. I’ve always wanted to fish the White River in Arkansas to see what all the fuss is about. On the East Coast, I’d like to get up to New England and fish some of the streams where it all got started. I’d also love to have a good, long trip to the Keys to chase tarpon, snook, and bonefish.
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-kid,
Cutthroat, brown trout, rainbows, brookies, lakers, grayling, and white fish. Meandering spring creeks, brawling freestoners, meadow ponds, and sprawling lakes. Bald and golden eagles, osprey, grizzly and black bears, bison, antelope, elk, and wolves–awaken every morning to a different alarm clock sound.
Few if any snakes.
YNP is the most diverse, and arguably the best, fly fishing destination in the world and just an eight hour road trip from your home with a lot of great distraction streams on the drive up–regardless of the route you take.
Bud Lilly’s sends a weekly area stream report beginning in May or June that runs through Oct; it is a free subscription service. It will give you their guides’ and clients’ rundowns of how the fishing is going from The Henry’s Fork to the Park.
I’ve only been a few times–hardly an expert, but would suggest going in mid to late September. The crowds are beginning to dwindle, there are still some good hatches and terrestrial fishing. The weather will help if you want to get on the Fire Hole.
It sounds goofy, but not a day goes by that I don’t think of Yellowstone. This is only for a point of reference, but I’ve fished Alberta, British Columbia, Alaska, CA, CO, MT, ID–several really neat places across North America, but can’t say the same about any of them. It isn’t what I would call majestic in the same sense that one might describe Denali , the Grand Canyon, or the Tetons, but it is awe inspiring. Just broad shouldered, rugged country that stretches on and on, punctuated by geological and thermal features found in only a handful of places on earth.
It is the one place I don’t think I would ever take for granted or get too used to.Sorry for the gushing.
Zach,
Did you really get an english setter? Man, those are pretty dogs. I have a chesapeake bay retriever for duck hunting (best duck hunting dogs period, and that’s not just my opinion, thats pure truth). She does pretty good with upland game hunting too but if the wife let me have my way I would also have an irish setter. In my opinion english and irish setters aren’t quite as good of hunters as german shorthairs or english pointers (but that’s just my opinion) , but you just can’t beat the beautiful looks of a setter. How nice of a pair would that be, my chessie on my left and my irish setter on my right. Absolutely beautiful. Congrats Zach.-Kid
i would have to hit the keys for tarpon….. my buddy has a lab chessie mix and a english setter great dogs. i duck hunt alot and i have a chocolate lab and i would have to say they are the best not just my opinion either. my girlfriends dad is a big waterfowler and had a chessie. they just seem way to stuborn, aggresive, and territorial. anyway he ended up biting the neighbor kid in the face when he was sitting on the sidwalk. they had to put him to sleep
If your going based on how easy a dog is to train or by their temperment, then your right labs are better, but if your going based on pure instinct chessies have no competition. Most lab lovers have never owned a chessie and if they have they just got fed up and never really took the time to train it. And don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying labs aren’t good hunters, because they really are good hunters and great all around dogs. but the problem is that labs have become so poplular that a lot of the instinct and drive is being bred out of them (not to mention the diseases that come from overbreading). It’s hard to get a lab with pure duck hunting bloodlines because so many people are buying them for family dogs and never even taking them near water (which is a horrible thing to do to a lab). Almost every chessie breader won’t even think about selling someone a pup if they aren’t planning on hunting with it. As far as the stuborn, aggressive, territorial issue goes, a lot of that has been bred out of them.
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