The Northern California Fly Fishing Board

The first stop was the Northeast corner of Yellowstone Park to fish the Lamar River and Soda Butte Creek.


Landing a Lamar River Cutthroat, seven fish came out of a run about 4 feet wide and 4 feet deep, a rod length from the bank (visible seam in front of me). This fish and half dozen others took a Tan Parachute (after rejecting BWOs, Caddis, and Ants & Beetles)

A couple of days, later (and after watching wolves feed on a bison carcass lower on Soda Butte Creek) I found a couple handfuls of smaller cuts farther upstream.

In Red Lodge where Rock Creek flows through the town, all I caught on Rock Creek were Browns on BWO Cripples

this one came out of the water five times!


This establishment had a menu selection which was listed as The Ultimate Chicken Fried Steak



I could not resist!

After Red Lodge, we backtracked to Cody, Wy. After a day at the Buffalo Bill Cultural Center (worth the trip), a gunfight downtown (for us tourists), and a lot of shopping for the grandkids, I spent a day molesting Rainbows (30!) from 5 to 11 inches in the North Fork of the Shoshone River.

No really big fish but a lot of scenery, we traveled from Cody through YNP to West Yellowstone, Mt home for the last 8 days of the trip.

During a drift trip on the Madison, I landed over 50 Rainbows and Browns thattook either BWO or Micro Wulff emergers.

Fished the Madison (Rainbows), Firehole (Browns) and Gibbon (Browns above the falls and Rainbows below) in the Park and

dodged bison here and there (Gibbon Meadows)

Overall, a great way to ease into retirement, I was able to figure out hatches (or at least what the fish were eating) and catch fish throughout the trip. My wife (a non fisher) and I had a great time taking in the sights and doing non-fishing stuff (did you know that the Buffalo Bill Dam was the highest arched concrete dam until Hoover dam was built?) and visiting with friends we’ve made in the area over the last 25 years. A trip worth taking even if you don’t fish. We will be up there next September; and maybe in July too since I do not have to go to the office anymore!

Paul

Great report Paul.

Retirement is a great thing.

Paul

,never had one fill the plate like that! Sounds like a great"Easing into retirement"
trip...Thanks for the tease !

Now that was a Chicken Fried Steak, the best one I ever tasted was at the Big Texan in Amarillo, but it was no where that big. Oh, and I nice report.

Nice report, Paul. I was in Yellowstone end of April, when the rivers weren't open for fishing--and it was killing me. Maybe next summer...