Tomorrow forum member Chuck Tinsley, Bob Ross, Mark Huff, Mark Hume, Gregg Messel and myself are hitting the waters in Yellowstone NP. It's great to have a
forum where get togethers like this are possible.
Dennis
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Posts: 3951 06/25/2009 21:37 Local user |
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Posts: 180 06/26/2009 06:55 |
Dennis - Please post some pics if you have an opportunity - hope you all have a great day!
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Posts: 1367 06/26/2009 08:53 |
My money's on Chuck if he wears the off-white cowboy hat. If he wears the beret and mime makeup all bets are off.
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Posts: 617 06/26/2009 09:09 |
Good luck, guys. That sounds like a fun trip. Definitely post pics and let us know the rods you all chose to use on those famous waters. Tight lines!
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Posts: 1511 06/27/2009 00:24 |
dennis
you guys have a blast and i wish i was with ya's ,i had a heck of a day today myself , up guiding on the oldman , 29 inch bull trout hit a streamer ,
what was funny was he had a big ass cutt stuffed down his mouth and the only thing you could see was his tail , and he still was not full and went after the
streamer ,
Rich
For vintage fly reels & bamboo rods , guided float trips on canada's # 1 best trout river , i have a special for our bamboo forum members www.bowriveradventures.com |
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Posts: 1594 06/27/2009 05:03 |
Have a great day!
Hope to join you guys one day And please share some pictures with us! |
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Posts: 1188 06/27/2009 09:45 |
Fishing with board members
Lots of fish for Chuck, bob and Mark Hughes along with G. Messel. We did not move 30 yards from the hot spring. Lots of new bamboo to go around. I got to fish a Ron Kusse rod and have a great time - a Maca rod was passed from hand to hand. Lots of rising fish switching from White Millers to PMD's I managed to catch a couple of trout on a softhackle from another board member (joaniebo). Yes they do catch trout outside of Wisconsin Spotted Dace. We split up to start and we fished for about 3 hours catching a ton of fish - including Bob. Chuck did have on a great hat. We all met up at Blue ribbon Flies. We ate lunch and tried the Madison on the way out of the park. We had a thunderstorm which finally drove us off the river. It was a great day and we plan on meeting again tomorrow. I will post photos on my facebook page (gregg messel) Gregg |
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Fishing in Yellowstone | #7 | ||
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Posts: 1189 06/27/2009 09:48 |
While eating lunch we met a fly fishing French man whose English was much better than my French. He showed us his equipment(including a wonderful automatic
reel) we we stunned him when we pulled a bunch of cane out the truck. The language problems are solved when we talk about fishing. He was cooking a couple
of trout on a one burner stove with lots of garlic and butter and a fine white wine.
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Posts: 296 06/27/2009 15:40 |
I just spent a few hours on the ranch water of the Henry's Fork with Mark Hume, Bob Ross and Chuck Tinsley -- note I didn't say "fishing."
They are all enjoyable guys with whom to share the river, and I fervently wished some of the bugs I'd seen the last couple of days would have put in an
appearance. They did not. As it turned out, we spent the time telling stories, comparing tackle and watching the water . . . intensely and intently. By noon
I'd stretched my Saturday kitchen pass to the limit, and left them to wait another hour for the green drakes and then go up to the Trouthunter to sample
the wares in their amply stocked bar.
Thanks guys. It was a lot of fun even if the bugs and fish did go into hiding. Hope we can do it again with better results sometime. EP |
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Posts: 781 06/29/2009 14:16 |
Dennis, did marks Dickerson 8014 clone rod arrive at your realty office yet?
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Posts: 1514 06/29/2009 16:40 |
while we are all waiting for some pictures from the you wild bunch fishing , as this topic is no good without some pictures , even if it's just your mug
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 , bob should have some good pictures to share with us from his
new camera ,
so for now , here's a few of that big ugly 29 inch bull trout , he likes eating mountain cutts 
Rich
For vintage fly reels & bamboo rods , guided float trips on canada's # 1 best trout river , i have a special for our bamboo forum members www.bowriveradventures.com |
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Posts: 3958 06/29/2009 22:33 Local user |
Dennis,
It arrived Monday and passed on to Mark. Rich, Get a bigger net for those ugly bull trout. Nice fish but it's almost scary. Here's a pic of Mark Huff putting on a new fly. Mark and fished a different area of Firehole since it was too crowded in the area of the wild bunch. Pics of wild bunch were taken outside of Blue Ribbon but not by me. I'm sure those pics will show up sometime. Fishing was so so. Dennis 
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Posts: 1190 06/30/2009 09:02 |
While stopping at the new Sweetgrass Building I ran into Mark who has the bamboo disease bad - buying a rod from Glenn. We did not get to fish, but we did get
a chance to visit.
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Fishing the Railroad Ranch section of Henry's Fork with other Board Members | #13 | ||
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Posts: 1196 07/01/2009 10:11 |
It was fun meeting Mark [seattlesetters] on the Firehole in YNP last Friday and Eric Peper on his home river - the Henry's Fork on Saturday.
I was traveling with Chuck [uniphasian] and have had the pleasure of fishing with Dennis [firehole] and Gregg Messel in the past - very gracious hosts both of them. There have been a few requests for more photos - here a few pictures illustrating a morning's fishing on the Railroad Ranch.......... [ left to right: Mark, Chuck, Eric ] 
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Posts: 666 07/01/2009 12:41 |
I had a truly good time meeting new members and catching up with those I've already met and fished with. We compared rods, caught fish, told lies and got
rained on quite a bit. I've got some pictures that I'll share....
Here's most of the gang, posing in front of Craig Matthew's legendary shop, Blue Ribbon Flies, with Gregg Messel(gmflyfish) behind the camera. From left to right: Bob Ross (uintaangler), Mark Huff (philpsych), Mark Hume (seattlesetters), Dennis Callaway (Firehole), Chuck Tinsley (uniphasian). 
Here we are a few hours later, taking cover after getting forced off the Madison River by a thunderstorm. Right before this picture was taken occured one of my favorite memories of the trip: I sat along with Gregg on a grassy bank and watched Bob stick and land three nice fish from a sweet-looking inside seam in about a dozen casts...and these were not easy fish to catch. 
In this sequence taken two days later than the pics above, Gregg worked his way out to some heavier water, got just the right drift and landed a nice rainbow on the Madison River in the Park. 
Here, Gregg snapped a photo of me into a good fish on the Firehole River. Note the textbook form on how to fght a fish on bamboo ... ;-) 
This picture was snapped by me later that day while fishing by myself on the mighty Madison River outside the Park. The water was big, brawling and heavy and it was at the highest flows I'd ever fished it at. This guy was the second largest fish I landed in about three hours of very hard work. I'm not usually one to take pictures of fish, but this brute gave me the hardest fight I've ever had from a brown trout and felt he deserved the honor. In fact, if I hadn't netted him when I did, I'm totally convinced he would have fought to the death. As it was, he took me well over 100 yards downstream and battled for over ten minutes. The rod is an 8'6" 2/2 5wt hollow-built by Marty Karstetter. The reel is a new 3 1/8" Hardy Perfect. The line is a Cortland 444 Peach DT-5. He ate a #16 Goddard Caddis tied onto 4x Enrico Puglisi tippet. 
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Posts: 1597 07/01/2009 12:43 |
Wow, great weather you've got there!
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Posts: 225 07/01/2009 13:07 |
Friends, beautiful country, classic gear, and trout..... when it comes to fishing, it doesn't get much better than that. Thanks for sharing.
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Posts: 1197 07/01/2009 14:07 |
Mark [seattlesetters] besides being a great guy is also being very gracious - because the only reason I was able to catch those fish in the Madison was him
showing me what was working for him - right down to giving me "the fly"
Thanks Mark and great Brown next to that lovely Karstetter. |
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Posts: 327 07/01/2009 18:17 Moderator |
Hi All -
Great trip indeed, what a day. Dennis and I fished some water he knew on the Firehole, and hit a terrific PMD and caddis hatch, lots of rising trout. We then fished the Madison in the park, and eventually got rained out. This was part of an week long Henry's Fork trip for me, which went very well. The fishing was very good - most days rising trout could be found, and the evenings nearly always had thick caddis hatches, with Green Drakes, Flavs, and tiny Mayflies, perhaps size 20 or smaller, little bits of flying dust! I hooked fish on Caddis, Green Drake Duns, and CDC PMD's. And the people were great as well - Trouthunter chef Paul Barr let me put a tent in his backyard, minutes from the water, and introduced me all around the lodge as well. Thanks Paul! Paul's Dad, Dan Barr, visited last weekend, and we had some great fishing adventures, including a fine day on the Firehole( I landed a 15" Brown, bankfeeder, on a dry fly). The group outing was a lot of fun, and Dennis Callaway shared his knowledge and experiences of the park (it was my first visit). I drove home monday, and stopped in at Twin Bridges, running into GMFlyfish (Greg, I think). The BooBoys new shop is fine indeed, with a nice view of the mountain country north east of Twin Bridges. Evening Caddis hatch on the Henry's Fork, some of the thickest hatches I've seen. 
Some handsome devil into a good fish, 18" rainbow.  
Lou-dog offers encouragement.  
Used a prefire Leonard 50 1/2 on the first day, a truly medium action rod that didn't do much for me in Alberta, but what just the ticket on the Fork. Landing trout was another matter, the rod flexes way into the cork handle. Dan & Paul Barr on the Henry's Fork, me up on the bank, spotting trout (far easier than catching them...). Lou-dog and Emma-dog (Paul and Dan's lovely setters) ranging somewhere out in the sagebrush. 
Paul Barr with a nice Firehole Brown. 
Me with a prefire Leonard model 50. The Firehole might be the prettiest trout stream I've fished. Long undercut banks, deep too, great trout habitat. And a lava-bottom, like the Henry's Fork. 
Landed a nice 15" Brown on the Firehole, a bankfeeder, hooked on the first cast. Altogether very nice... 
And hooked myself, also on the Firehole! Love those barbless hooks... 
So, back home in SW Alberta for a week or two, I hear the dry fly fishing has picked up. Driving up to the Crowsnest tomorrow evening. Richard, I don't know what to say about that Bull Trout. Holy ----, nice fish. Were you fishing a jig? Last time we fished (Bow River, May-ish I think...) you used a bobber on your Dana Gray quad... are you a closet spin fisherman? haha all good things, Mark Huff |
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Posts: 669 07/01/2009 19:27 |
It was great cathcing up with Dennis and Mark again. Dennis is a gracious host who is a terrific fishing partner and I'd like to thank him for setting this
"mini-gathering" up. It was a great idea and we all had a good time.
Mark and I have also fished together before. It was good to be on the water again, my friend.
"You know how much I love a nice rack!" |
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Posts: 2004 07/02/2009 11:21 Moderator |
Finally returned home - successfully ran the police gauntlet through Wyoming, washed the Idaho off my truck, and replaced the broken windshield yesterday.
Most of the gear is dried off now, having been rained on and dunked (???) several times during the course of the trip.
What a fun trip, and it was a pleasure meeting and fishing with some of the forum's finest - especially Dennis, who I believe is the forum's most misunderstood member. I can't imagine a more gracious and generous host anywhere. Good to see you again, Dennis. I'm sorry that I didn't get to fish with Mark Huff (philpsych). Hopefully we'll run into each other on the stream someday, somewhere. The Firehole, Madison, and Henry's Fork have already been covered, so I'll tell you briefly about a day that Bob Ross (unintaangler) and I had on a small stream. I'll leave a few gaps in the story so that Bob can add his two cents. After being drenched in the Park and shut-out on the Henry's Fork, Bob and I went in search of less storied waters. Boy, did we ever find it. We received directions to a small creek from 'the dude' at a local fly shop. By directions, I mean that we were told in what general direction to drive to find the river and a parking turn out - after that we were on our own. At first, there was a two-track to walk along, but in short order we understood that the road wasn't headed toward the river. Time for a shortcut. After bushwhacking about a mile through grizzly forest we began hearing the sound of the river. A little closer and we began to saw the gap in the trees that indicated a canyon. The lip wasn't vertical, but was steep enough that we had to start looking for a better place to scramble the 300-400 foot drop to the creek. 
We then began traversing down the slope, headed at a few lodgepoles about mid-way down. As we approached the river, the thought of cool water around our legs caused us to abandon the traverse and we began to ass-slide down the slope to the river. 
The creek was just perfect. No campfire rings, no beer cans or candy wrappers, no trail - and best of all, the fish were just where they were supposed to be. 
Most of the fish ran 8 to 12 inches, but Bob managed to coax a nice brown out of a deep hole. 
And we got to try out his Pentax camera's underwater feature. 
Most of the day, while we were fishing along, we were watching the canyon walls trying to spot an obvious way back out. After about a mile and a half it was evident there would be no easy way out. No miracle road coming right down to the river that we could easily walk out, so we began scrambling our way up the hill. You can see Bob peeking out from the brush in the picture below: 
A couple of miles bushwhacking back to a road where we flagged down a passing car for the last mile and a half ride back to our truck. I find it amazing that anyone would stop and offer a ride to two guys, fully wadered, vested, with fly rods, and walking along the side of a road two miles from the nearest water. You guessed it, an old-timer with his family out for a ride. He didn't blink twice at us.
- Uni
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