Yellowstone Trip!

[orvis1]

[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]I wanted to share with you our Yellowstone trip that I had the opportunity to visit this weekend. I don’t know how to relate this to you in a way that you will all understand except to say that I feel a sense of peace and the feeling that is where I belong. Trips like this are the reason we can tolerate everything else in that goes on in life. I will attempt to post a grundle of pictures but am unsure of my ability to make them show up. We left on I wanted to share with all of you my trip to paradise (Yellowstone) that I had the Wednesday evening about 6 pm for west Yellowstone and after getting through the gridlock all the way up to Ogden I felt we were finally on the way. [/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]We made it to west Yellowstone after the truck sucked down about $140 in gas about 11:30 and pulled into our spot at the west Yellowstone KOA. I was so tired and it was late we just pulled in and left the truck hooked up and went to bed. The next morning we set up camp leveled the trailer and hooked up. I went with my wife and daughter so this was to be a mixed trip of sightseeing and fishing. We went to the museum of Yellowstone and basically wasted $12 (warning not worth the money). We then went to the IMAX Theater to see the movie Yellowstone at $27 dollars it was overpriced but cool. We then finally made our way to both Madison River Outfitters and Blue Ribbon Flies for some tips and bugs. [/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]Now finally I get to fish we headed up HWY 191 to the Gallatin (one of my favorite spots). I geared up and the trip was on! The fist hole looked promising but no fish, I then made my way up the river and hooked into what would turn out to be the largest fish of the trip a 17” rainbow, I got him to shore and attempted to photograph him for the post and wouldn’t you know it he flopped back into the river taking my fly with him. If anyone catches him with a soft hackle BWO please return the fly. I then moved upstream and caught a ½ dozen rainbows from 9”- 15” and to my surprise MR WHITEY came to visit now once but 2x. I was surprised to see whitefish in YNP but I guess you never know. After about 3 hours on the river we headed back to camp. [/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]Friday I decided to go for the money shot! The Northeast part of YNP has always been my favorite and it did not disappoint! This part of the park is full of what I call fish porn! It holds the Gardiner, Yellowstone, Slough Creek, Soda Butte Creek, and the Lamar. These are all rivers you could spend several days fishing on each river and I could easily spend a month but that was not to happen this was a family trip. I did get the opportunity to see a monster elk, buffalo, and a bear on the way to the Lamar Valley. [/font][/size]
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[size 3][font "Times New Roman"]I got the opportunity to fish Soda Butte and it was everything I remembered it to be. I caught fish on small beetles site fishing to Yellowstone cuts and also on the nymphs that worked yesterday. I caught and released more than my share of these beautiful fish and honestly lost count. I have attached some photos of the tip I hope you enjoy! Thanks for reading my brain dump and I can wait to get back there again next year! [/font][/size]
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[riverdog]

Orvis1,thanks for sharing info and photos on your trip. So many great rivers up there and the immediate surrounding area. I think I could fish up there for a month straight without hitting the same stretch of water more than once.
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[orvis1]

Riverdog I guess you understand me then. If I ever get a whole month off in August you know where to find me. It is like fish porn all over the park.....
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[HFT]

Well done[] Sweet report! Such a beautiful place.
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[riverdog]

Orvis1 if you ever get that month off let me know if you're looking for company. Can't think of a better way to spend the month of August. The biggest concern each morning probably would be which beautiful river to fish today.
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[Enos_Gillespie]

Need any photo tips?
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[orvis1]

That would be a blast! You could actually spend 1 of the weeks hiking back into slough creek alone! Someday... Someday...


As far as photo tips, I could use some but your avatar frankly scares the hell out of me....
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