Paul,
How was the fishing on the Metolious? We'll be trying out the stream while
the wives are at the quilt show in Sisters.
Paul
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From: Warner, Paul W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, July 12, 2001 12:18 PM
Subject: RE: MT/ID/WY report
>Andy,
>
>I liked your Yellowstone report as well. We're leaving the 26th for a week
of geyser "photographing" and fishing. This will be my first trip there and
I'm not sure what all to expect for the fishing.
>
>Just got back from fishing the Metolius down in Oregon and I hope it's
better than that.
>
>Bill Warner
>
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>> From: Andy Towell[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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>> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 6:31 PM
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>> Subject: MT/ID/WY report
>>
>> Just returned from an 10 day trip to the Yellowstone region:
>>
>> Fished Rock Creek MT one day on the way over (June 29th). A good number
of pmd's and green drakes on the water and the fish treated me well. Ran in
to a MT biologist checking a smolt trap and he mentioned that Rock Creek is
second only to one of the Missouri tribs (prickly pear?) in terms of
whirling disease load. Caught Cutts, browns and cutt-bows in that order of
prevalence. No brookies or pure strain bows. Usually only get 1 brookies for
every couple of fishing days in past trips, but the lack of rainbows is now
very noticeable. Several of the browns were kind enough to go aerial for me
though to help fill that gap.
>>
>> The Henry's Fork was still fishing poorly during the day (at least for
me), as winds, higher temps and no clouds kept the PMD hatches to a minimal
level. 0/3 in the ranch one day and 1/1 below Ashton (20" bow) on the second
day (on foam body #10 golden stone.) Due to familial obligations (i.e.
because I was fishing all day I had to stick around the cabin in the
evening,) I did not fish the flav or caddis hatches in the evening.
>>
>> Did not fish it, but the salmon flies on the Madison were already below
Quake Lake when we arrived on the 30th, so lots of pressure (bank and boat)
up high.
>>
>> The Park waters were all in shape. Fished the Lamar (OK for cutts to
17-18" on stone fly dries and doublewing attractors) and Slough Creek - good
for cutts, 'bows and cuttbows. Lucked out in that the one cloudy day of the
vacation was on Slough Creek, so a decent number of PMD's, and Drakes were
popping. Also saw some larger spinners that may have been Brown Drakes or
Grey Drakes (tail length >3x body length), but saw only the PMD and Green
Drake dun's on the water. Some smaller Flav. spinners showed in the
afternoon, but the fish were still looking for PMD cripples. Caught fish to
21" on PMD and Green Drake cripples. One thing to note on both the Lamar and
Slough Creek - this is a great year for Deer flies and I lost a lot of skin
for not having insect repellant in my vest (applied at the truck before
leaving, wore off of many areas before the day was through.)
>>
>> Fished Yellowstone Lake one day, but the callibaetis were really not
cooking yet and had relatively slow fishing from the beach (1 fish every
15'). The lone tuber that I spoke with was not doing much better further
out. Pattern and retrieve did not seem to matter, as everything was equally
mediocre.
>>
>> Spent an entertaining hour on the upper yellowstone feeding salmon flies
and golden stones to the cutthroat. I was amazed at the amount of stonefly
biomass that was crawling out of the river around LaHardy rapids.
>>
>> Now its back to the real world...
>>
>> Tight Lines,
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>
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