Mike Cline
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Lawrence
There are actually three places – the 3rd being Madison County Lake in Nov-Jan each year.
Check out this forum as these guys fish the Sipsey Fork tailwater all the time:http://www.alabamariverfishing.net/
Additionally, give Brandon and Mary Carole Jackson a visit at http://www.riversideflyshop.com/index.html.
I still have my Fishpond lumbar pack I bought at REI upwards of 5 years ago. I don’t know what it was called then, but looks alot like the Blue River version today. Very versatile and durable pack. It’s great for helping reduce the amount of crap you carry when you fly with just carry on luggage.
Bill,
Of course you’ve got to have a floating line to fish bugs and such, but you’ll catch a lot more bass/trout with streamers–clousers, buggers and such by using a Density Compensated Sink Tip (200-250gr) for a 7wgt. They get flies down fast and keep them there in front of the fish. Fishing streamers on floating lines just doesn’t get the fly down without alot of undue weight that impedes casting. DC Sink Tips cast like rockets with fast rods and can be fished in ANY water depth–shallow to deep.Planning a September trip to Montana and stumbled on the 4 Rivers website. Impressive [smiley=thumbup.gif]
Please stumble on to: http://www.thestoneflyinn.com/
Rooster Leven used to be part owner of 4 Rivers until their parting two year’s ago.Three for sure, maybe four total including me.
October is a way off, but keep the E. Gallatin in mind as something you might want to do.
My buddies and I are looking at October 5th to the 11th on the Madison and Firehole.
Never know when I’ll be in town, but think about spending a day in Bozeman and doing a kayak trip down the E. Gallatin.
Winter over? I sure hope so, it’s 8 degrees today but suppose to hit almost 60 on Friday! That will be very short lived but I’ll take it.
Eric, I feel it.
Could you please mention here what colors you find most effective.
For the most part, I always used White or Chartruese foam for visibility (as well as white and chart marabou)
I’m interested if anyone has any recommendations for research free tools. I have Access and Excel, but there are obvious limitations there too. I haven’t run across any good templates yet.
Scott,
The best tool I’ve found for collecting and organizing random material while doing research is Microsoft OneNote. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/default.aspx
Joel,
Not everyone can tie flies and there’s probably not alot of synthetics laying around the ranch. Think about this twist–Call it the Two Fly.
All the contestants must draw from a stock of flies, two to a package. Each package contains two files–one of a classic design, one of a modern design. Wets, Drys, Streamers and Nymphs would be mixed by twos at random with each draw containing at least two different types. All the flies would be suitable for the waters to be fished, but the fisherman would have to know how to fish the flies they drew. It would challenge all the fisherman to be up on all the different presentations and they would have to have the skills necessary to exploit the flies they drew.
Just a thought to entice those who might not know how to tie files.
This was my goto White Bass and Spotted Bass fly in the rivers and reservoirs in Central Alabama. Easy to tie, very durable, easy to cast, fished on density compensated sinking line, this clouser pattern worked all the time. #6 Stinger hook, pearl krystal flash, silver/gold flashabou (or gold flake rubber), over chartruese krystal flash
The OK and the Native we simply too heavy for my liking.
The Native is designed almost directly off of the Tarpon platform. Its just a bit wider and quite a bit heavier. I thought the Native did not track very well and was not a quick through the water.
Tim
You must be confusing something else with the Native you speak about–The Native Ultimate 12 weighs in at 55lbs while the Tarpon 120 is 60lbs. Additionally, the Native Ultimate hull profile is essentially unique in the kayak industry and nothing like that of the Tarpon, OKs or other SOTs.
I fish a Native Ultimate and it is by far the best kayak I have ever had, and I have had a lot of them. I love to stand and fish and the distance it allows me to see while fishing is worth it in my opinion.
Cole, I couldn’t agree with you more. I am a Tegris 12 owner and just bought my second Ultimate 12 yesterday so as can entice some of these Montana driftboat jockeys to go kayaking with me.
A word for KAYAKs. Above all, boats of any sort are merely a conveyance (unless you live on a house boat). The boat is a means of getting you from point A to point B with the gear you need to fish with on the water you want to fish on. On some water you have to fish from the boat, on others you don’t.
The Fishing Kayak – as a single person conveyance on the water has these advantages
- Relatively inexpensive to obtain and maintain
- Relatively light wieght and easily transported on a vehicle
- Sufficient storage for most gear to include overnight camping
- Can be launched from just about anywhere along a shoreline if accessible-even over bridge crossings and very steep banks
- Highly manuverable on the water with excellent speed for human powered watercraft (3-5mph)
- Extremely shallow draft (inches) and can be paddled upstream or uptide with ease.
- A very stable fishing platform – some models allow standing and casting with ease
- Most can handle Class III whitewater with ease and rough water up to 2-3′ swells.
Given those characteristics, its all about the variety of water you want to fish. Take a look at these pictures:
This section of the Ruby River is essentially unaccessible to anything but a boat that can be launch over the side of a highway bridge.
My kayak about 5 miles from the nearest launch at low tide in Tampa Bay-unaccessible to any flats boat at this time. Inside of the sandbar was some great Seatrout and Redfish potholes.
Here the Kayak provided rapid access up a very shallow side creek.
These forks on Hachett Creek (great Redeye Bass), deep in the Central Alabama woods is essentially unaccessible by anything other than a kayak or canoe. (unless you have access to private land) Its at least 1.5 miles upstream from a put-in on a county road. You could not wade up stream because of deep holes–you’d have to swim to get through. The Kayak can be paddled and towed while wading up these kinds of Creeks and Rivers with ease.
With a Kayak that is lightweight, also any water that can be floated and waded can be traversed both upstream and down from a single access point, because the kayak is easily towed up through white water as long as its wadable.
With the kayak tethered to your waist and with the use of an anchor trolley (drag chain anchor), you can no only wade up or downstream with a kayak, you can control your position relative to the bank or fishing target very precisely with the anchor trolley.Kayaks don’t replace drift boats, pontoons, flats boats or bass boats, but they surely have advantages over all of them–Access, Maneuverability, cost and weight.
it gave me the chills. Zach
http://venturist.com/images/MikeImages/Thirty-Seven%20Days%20of%20Peril.pdf
If you haven’t ever read this story–its true–it will probably give you the chills as well.
Great post, Mike. How did you get in to those places? Zach
Indeed the road from Mammoth to Cooke City is open year round. The NPS keep it plowed nicely and only in the really shady spots is it icey and slick. Unfortunately, all the trails and side roads are not maintained so that any off-road travel has to be on skis or showshoes. The park is a very quiet and serene place in the Winter. There’s still a lot of elk, bison and coyote to see, but the Elk and Bison are really sluggish in the winter–they don’t move around much. Its ashame the Gardner River isn’t open for fishing in the Winter as it runs low and crystal clear and the snow isn’t too bad below Mammoth. If the weather stays nice over the next week or so, I plan a hike back into the Black Canyon along the Rescue Creek trail. If that comes off, there’ll be some interesting pics of the Yellowstone. 😎
BTW: Nice Rack! ;D
