Eric Weller
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MIke,
You hit it right on the nose, that’s exactly where I was when I took the photo of the Firehole. The Firehole river is sooo cool. We were fishing there when it was about 38 degrees, raining,sleeting and snowing. You would be freezing like it was steelhead weather and then just wade over to where a thermal spring entered the water and within a few seconds your feet and legs were toasty warm. Actually you had to watch, it can get too warm. The fishing was great on that river and I’m bummed that we are going early this year, the Firehole will most likely be too warm to fish when we get there. I’m really hoping for the stream restrictions to lift, it will be dissapointing if we can’t hike up to Slough creek meadows. With the restrictions having you pull the plug on fishing at 2pm, not really worth the 2-3 hour hike. If they stand we will be hitting other streams in the park. Anyone fish Hellroaring or the meadow section of Pebble creek? I have Craig Matthews book on fishing Yellowstone Park and those two look like possible hikes which would be worthwhile. Here’s my favorite fly shop in Montana. You can’t beat Kelly Galloup for his hospitality or his guides like John McClureEric
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This is a photo of Slough creek between the second and first meadowHere is my buddy Kevin with a nice Slough creek cut taken below the campground
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Doug and I at Trout Lake
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Finally my favorite body of water, the Firehole
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When I originally learned to trout fish many moons ago, the old Irishman who taught only liked to fish at night.
Boy those are great photos! I can’t wait for my trip in September. We head out on the 4th and return on the 12th. Hey Camerson or Joel, any spots to hit near Yellowstone Park? We’ll be staying in Cooke city most of the trip, wouldn’t mind fishing somewhere other than soda butte and the Lamar, especially if the restrictions stay in place. We’ll be on the madison at the Slide Inn for 3 days and then finish off at cooke city.
PS, Cameron don’t sweat the texas hold’em, I learned the same way you did last year with the guys I fish with.eric
Jake,
First thing is you need to cast some different makes and tapers to get an idea what you like. You can find a nice rod under 400.00 new and some nice used one’s under that too. I will paste some links here for you to follow about ‘boohttp://p205.ezboard.com/bclarksclassicflyrodforum
This is the best forum out there for the bamboo nut like me. It has everything from a for sale section for used rods or new. Plus if you post under the fishing bamboo section what you posted here you will bet a lot of help. I can give you a bunch of other sites for purchasing bamboo rods but they are at home and I’m at work. I’ll post again when I get home. Ebay can really be dicey for bamboo rods. The forum is a much better route and really some of the sites I have for used/new rods are great. You can sometime find a great deal on the forum for a rod. I did. If you like the look of the Clarks board it’s because Zach did it.
Here’s some sites for purchasing rods;http://www.codella.com/
http://members.aol.com/canerodz/homepage.html
http://ronsrods.freeyellow.com/
http://www.northwestclassictackle.comI’m with Zach on this one, started a journal for the year and I’ll probably get almost 50 days this year.
