NE Yellowstone

[ticketP1]

Yup... Going there Friday to stay til the 7th. Packing a few miles up Pebble Creek for starters. Heard about the greatness of Slough - may or may not get there cuz it definitely is known by the people. Anyone shed any light on other streams up that way...? Or for that matter current conditions of Lamar River, Soda Butte, etc? I figure Humpys, PMDs, Golden Stones and Green Drakes oughta get me started but could use some sage advice from whomever has been up that way this time o' year. Thx in advance.

Jim

PS Yes, I plan on packin some heat...Pepper spray that is...

[jlo]

The northeast streams are the last waters in the park to clear. Slough may be fishable. Most people on the Slough do not go past the second meadow. Keep going and you will be rewarded. Remember flying black/red ants for Slough. Don't search the water with attractors--match the hatch as much as possible. Also, there's some great stonefly water on your way up that no one fishes. I've caught some awesome fish in there. The Lamar and Soda Butte will be iffy for water quality. Pebble Creek is fun for smaller fish. Try Tower also. If you want to wack 30-40 big cutts go to the lake and fish black/black, black/olive buggers. There's a good chance of bears up high on Slough Creek as well as Pebble Creek. Bring someone fat and slow.

[MOKE]

.....everybody fishes in the meadows. My best fishing here was down below the main parking area that everyone uses as a launching point. Everyone drives by this stuff w/out looking. Great water....nice fish. Lazy access.
MOKE

[ticketP1]

Thanks for the info Jilo.
Unfortunately I am just bringing myself. I'm kinda teetering as to whether or not I should be backpacking alone since odds go up, that is the likelyhood of encounters goes up, when one is on his own. I don't mind lone wolfin it during the day, but am a little creeped out about nightfall. We'll see what the Parkies say.

[ticketP1]

Right on Mo... Lazy man approach is sounding better by the minute.

[jlo]

That is good water that you'll walk by first. I've only fished it on the way out but have always stuck a few in the late evening. If the first meadow has 20 people the second will have 10 and third sometimes no one. The Gibbon is not that far away and is currently under construction (the road--not the river). If you're willing to walk a bit, you'll have great fishing--look for brown drakes and various golden, little stones right now. Non-developed camping in YStone requires permit. Talk to the Rangers about where and how.

[ticketP1]

I have a reservation for 3P1 (1st site up from Pebble CG) and expect to get heavily schooled on the regs by the parkies. I'll look into that other river you mentioned as well. Will have lots of time!

[MOKE]

You have to drive downstream of where you're talking about, to get to where I'm talking about.
I have had some of the best late evening spinner fall fishing for *giant* Cutts at this time of the year in areas well down stream of the parking area.
Lets just say more like halfway up from the Lamar R., to the parking area at the downstream end of the Slough Creek parking area. As you start up into Slough C. canyon, you're in area very similar to the Ut. sage scrub zone. This area is much more chapparal like, and thusly is overlooked by the vast majority.
I'm no local to that area, but in the times that I have fished it, I've rarely run into other people. And it's as hard to check out as a 100 yd. walk from the car. Lazy Access. :)
My friend and I got so spoiled that we decided to get down to bare essential fly casting.....No Rods....30' casts with your forearm flapping, and a death grip on the reel. Many, many cutts at 18" plus, pulling this shenanigans. (This is another truth.) Sometimes when its really good.....you get bored. :)

Or you could always hike UP into the meadows.

MOKE

[ticketP1]

Re: Moke

".....No Rods....30' casts with your forearm flapping, and a death grip on the reel. "


...dude...did something just kick in...?

[ticketP1]

Mo:

You know man I've done a lot of wierd chit meself...

I've driven far and wide for reasons that I still don't know...
I've walked into Colorado bars on Avs night donning my Stars (Modano) jersey enduring and delivering several colorful messages and gestures and survived to tell the tale...
I've taken girls on snipe hunts...and on a tennis court...
I'd seriously enoy attending the Burning Man, but I do honestly believe in bathing...
I tried to tip a cow (but he couldn't break my $20)...
I used to drive around in the yuppiedumb of N Dallas in my '69 Galaxy shock- value- on- wheels-mobile in which the nicest bumpersticker I had was a band called the Jesus Lizzard - all the time admiring looks of admonishment from the new-money- big- haired-boob-jobbed-women of N Dallas Society.
Now I live in the most god foresaken place known to mankind and strangely enough the joints' kinda growin on me (yes that'd be Dugway)...


But flyfishing using your arm as a rod.........?!!!!
Man thats just way out...
You are THE one and only Salvador Dali of Flyfishing.

I bow to you... Now I must fish.

[MOKE]

Armstrong Spring Creek...sans rod.

Or there was the time in mid July that I was wet wading and there were so many big Cutts stacked up at Buffalo Ford / Yellowstone R., that they were picking the nymphs off the back of my legs. Actually getting a hold of bare skin sometimes!
A quick wade to shore to get rid of the pesky rod....REEL fishing! It was so simple on this go that I dropped a nymph downstream of my waist and caught BIG Cutts until my hand hurt from holding the reel.
There were actually 3 of us fishing this way this time, it might have looked odd if I was the only one. :)
(2 of us doing this on Slough Creek)
This is something that most people will probably pass on doing....but it is a kick!
Just a different approach to FF fun. I actually used to do this quite a bit.
Just for giggles. :) :) :)

I actually learned this from a very famous FF artist, (and guide at that time.)
(And NO nothing is kicking in...too early yet.)

MOKE

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[jlo]

I know what you talk about now. Below the CG back towards the main road. Sneaky, yet obvious. Wiley, yet lazy.