reevesr1 Posted August 8, 2012 Share Posted August 8, 2012 After a short scramble and climb, this was our first view of the lake: We arrived and rigged up. Everyone put on a dry except me. I wanted to catch one for my son on one of his nymph ties. Second cast gets this: I see troutlover finish rigging up, and say "first cast, lake don't let me down!", shortly followed by the first of many, many "YUUUUPPPP!!"s of the day. These Yellowstone cutts are the prettiest fish I've ever caught (ok, except MahiMahi). Several of us were fishing the same bay, with troutlover really cleaning up at first as we all figure everything out. Foothills had a moment of panic as it took him a few minutes to tie into one, but once he did he caught fish after fish. As t-lover was leaving he said that the game he plays is to try to count the number of consecutive casts with fish. I could not do that, but after I'd stood on the same rock for an hour, dfb went just down wind (down drift) from me and started casting. He asked "how far are you letting it drift" I said "I don't know, I let it drift until I hook a fish. It's probably been an hour since the last cast that didn't hook one!" I have no idea how many we caught. Several hundred between the 7 of us. Dry flys took the vast majority of the fish, but if you wanted the bigger boys and girls, a wolly bugger was utterly deadly. Foothills with a nice fish! Saying goodbye to the best lake on the planet! Or at least as far as we know..... And finally, for bobloblaw. Sorry you couldn't make it buddy! We then hiked back to the cabin exhausted. There was talk about maybe doing some creek fishing, and maybe Egypt, but we just ended up drinking all of biggy's whiskey and troutlovers rum (rum and koolaid, yum), playing some card game (where I was the president and never dethroned-sorry for the mixed metaphor), and falling blissfully into sleep at around 10:30. The hike out was uneventful, with a big uphill grind to start (3 KM about 200m elevation gain in 45 minutes to start our day), a quick fish on fish lake again (it was a bit better this time, but the fish were still spooky!) and the hike back to the parking lot. As I said off the top, I could not have asked for a better group of people to spend the weekend with. Can't wait to do it again. I'm scouting a lake in BC in about 10 days!! On the ridge above fish lake on the way out. Deb and Uber were lagging us a bit!! From left to right, a very sweaty yours truly, foothills86, DFB, BiggyJ (or Recon as we know him now), and Troutlover. I think Uber has a shot of the entire group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ÜberFly Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Yeah yeah!! You guys didn't have to break down camp!! My photos are coming!! P Deb and Uber were lagging us a bit!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foothills86 Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Would do it again in a second, i wonder what people hiking in the valley thought of our constant YUUUUPPPPP ing, they must have figured we were crazy. YUUUUUUUUPPPPPPPP!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheeler Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Looks like it was a fantastic trip! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shredneck Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Great trip! Great report! Great photos! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteZahut Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Great series of posts and great story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawgstoppah Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 sounds like an absolutely fantastic trip. Bucket list for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveM Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 Wicked awesome, Tex! Epic weekend, fellas. I was there in spirit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveM Posted August 9, 2012 Share Posted August 9, 2012 BTW, Tex: stop posting those dang gigantic pictures! When the bar at the top of yer photo says "Reduced: 14% of original size", they are too big; takes forever for your posts to load up on my slow-arse computer. When you upload 'em on Imageshack, click on "Image resize" & pick "640 x 480(for message boards)"; much better! Thanks. Yer pal, Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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