After getting up and on the road at 10 AM, I drove 14 miles upstream along the Logan River and took the Franklin-Baskin road to the left of the highway. The road quickly crosses the Logan River with a bridge, and a pool. Two days in a row? I geared up and took my chair…
Day 12: Small Creeks and Bridges Equals Success
Right on the border of Idaho and Wyoming lies Salt Creek (not the river farther north). The online instructions state that one heads south from Smoot, WY, for 14 miles and voila, Salt Creek will be present to you. Coming south from Cokeville, I used Google Maps to lead me to Smoot, and stopped 14…
Day 11: Damn, I’m Having a Great Time
After a horrible night’s sleep, because my van was angled to slide me off my bed (too tired to try to park again as I hit one log and backed into a tree just getting to this arrangement), I drove 6 miles to North Piney Creek. What a beautiful paradise of water and scenery! North…
Day 10: Success and Adventure All In One Day
I woke up at 10 and put my gear on for a day of fishing along Greys River for a Snake River Cutthroat. I decided to first fish this beautiful water just by my campsite. Since the “brochure” stated that only fish longer than 16 inches could be kept, I put on a two inch…
Day 9: Long Drive to Somewhere
Only one picture from a Long Day of Driving. It took 5.5 hours of driving to get to Alpine Wyoming. The trip went through Yellowstone National Park, although not very scenic as it circled Yellowstone Lake. I got into Alpine, exhausted. After buying Windex for my windshield at an Ace Hardware (Yes, that is how…
Day 8b: Back Into The Hills of Wyoming
After completing my blog updates at 3:30, I started looking online for the best places to catch a Yellowstone Cutthroat in Wyoming. The Wyoming Cutt-Slam site stated that the Wood and Greybull rivers were the best places to fish. After I struck out on the Wood River, I decided to head to the larger Greybull…
Day 8a: Wood River WY and a Change in Plans
I could not find a place to spend the night in Meeteetse, WY. The nearest campground was the Wood River Campground 20 miles out of town. I drove there to be the only person in the area. Checking my logs, it turned out I was supposed to go to this campground to start my fishing…
Day 7: Fishing at Whitehall and a Long Drive to Meeteetse, Wyoming.
I got on the water at 10:30 AM. Fish were rising, sporadically, in the middle of the pond. I tried my rig from the previous evening to no avail. I changed to a single bead body PT midge 6 inches under the indicator. Fish were rising close to me, so of course I flipped the…
Day 6: Idaho Falls to Butte, Montana
Libraries save my soul and blog, as they allow me to update my blog and filter / clean up my photos. I spent the night in a truck stop in Idaho Falls, slept in until 10 (11 here). It takes 1 – 2 hours to update a couple of days of posts, and this library…
Day 5: Now This Trip Really Begins
I slept in the Forks Campground listening to the rain all night. And I decided that I would spend the entire day fishing the East Fork of the Jarbidge river until I landed and photographed a Redband Trout. Today I used my microwave for the first time on this trip. Two cups of water were…