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[ski3pin]

So basically, I'm going to leave Arizona, get up to Wy and MT, and stay there for a couple of weeks, before running down to Valley of the Gods gathering? 

 

Might catch some very nice high country Autumn colors up that way! We are wishing we could go right now.

[Cayuse]

So basically, I'm going to leave Arizona, get up to Wy and MT, and stay there for a couple of weeks, before running down to Valley of the Gods gathering? 

 

There are worse ways to spend a couple weeks!  Might be a good time to take up fly fishing 

[Stalking Light]

The Red Desert in Wyoming is supposed to be pretty cool and is on my list to visit.

[hoyden]

True! I'd love to learn how to fly fish!!

 

Anyone on here live in Wy or Mt available to teach me fly fishing in a couplea weeks?!  

[Stalking Light]

http://www.sexyloops...-of-fly-casting

 

 

This is pretty good

[hoyden]

http://www.sexyloops...-of-fly-casting

 

 

This is pretty good

 

I'll check it out after work! Thanks!

[Stalking Light]

Get in some casting practice and then get a guide for half a day, they'll generally give you pointers and put you on some fish. Make sure you let them know your skill level so they will be patient.

[Foy]

True! I'd love to learn how to fly fish!!

 

Anyone on here live in Wy or Mt available to teach me fly fishing in a couplea weeks?!  

For what it's worth, Rock Creek (the Rock Creek mentioned above) is a Blue Ribbon trout stream in Montana. The road up its canyon runs 41 miles upstream, which is southerly from I-90 about 20 miles east of Missoula, and it follows the stream the whole way.  Upriver of about Milepost 10, the pavement and most of the private property ends and first the Lolo NF then the Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF begins.  There are a half-dozen or so NF campgrounds, at least one of which is small and free (Siria-prounounced Sir-EE-ah, is OK, but no water there--fill up at Bitterroot Flats 5 miles north of there), and all are on Rock Creek (including two a very short distance up a tributary stream).  Disbursed campsites abound, especially above about Milepost 20, some are streamside, but all disbursed sites are marked, meaning one cannot camp away from a CG except at marked disbursed sites. There are some particularly nice designated streamside disbursed sites upstream of about Milepost 31, at Wyman Creek and above there for another couple or three miles towards the Concrete Bridge. Best of all, Rock Creek is big water (few backcast problems), easily waded late in the season after the runoff is gone, and it's plumb loaded up with cutthroats, rainbows, cutbows, browns, and the occasional bull trout.  

 

Go gitchasome!

 

Foy

[Stalking Light]

I fished Rock Creek a few years ago and agree, it's a great area to fish and camp. I remember one pool that had a cliff face on the far side and I was casting a hopper up against the cliff and letting it drop in the water and caught a brown on every cast. A good place to try for a trout grand slam. 

[hoyden]

You guys are way ahead of me! I haven't been fishing since I was a kid with my grandpa, don't have any fishing gear, and don't even know how to clean fish (though I have been watching some youtube vids on how to clean/prep bluegill)