I will live in Montana! Pt. 3!

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Evening flight to Bozeman, Rhody from the west, me from the east, meeting halfway at a friend's house to make the drive to the airport. Best plans went fubar, and instead of a ride to /from the airport we were going to have to leave one in long-term parking, or so we thought. FULL, FULL, FULL, in bright red, all the fucking long term parking was FULL, not much time to figure out off site shuttles, should have planned better, ended up in daily. Damnation, the airport was busy, hot hot hot day in Charlotte and the AC in the terminal couldn't keep pace with the heat and the volume of people! TSA line was long but, expected to take 40 minutes, but all of a sudden the line started moving. They had put a dog in the line and after showing ID and boarding pass, the security agent was saying, keep moving, don't use the bins, leave your shows on, go, go, go! So after passing through the metal detectors, (Found out Later, out boarding passes were tagged TSA PRE!) we still have time for a couple of IPAs before boarding the flight! That cost about $40!!!!

Boarding went smoothly, and we pushed back from the gate on time... but they was a bit of a commotion in the back of the plane and after a while we returned to the gate and TSA came on the plane and escorted some asshole and his buddy off the plane, it appeared as if he wouldn't comply with the flight attendants commands, not exactly sure what.. At the gate we waited and two standbys come aboard and filled their seats. That only took an hour!   

More beerz in MNP and a smooth flight into BZN, at the hotel by midnight....

Brand spanking new boots 'cause the old ones are coming apart and are filled with eastern strain Didymosphenia geminata

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Taking along a good book for the flights, hope TSA doesn't mind the title....
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All packed, with just enough room left for the hat...
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Gottz to remember whez wez parked
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Maybe I can raise some spare coin while waiting in the TSA line
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Really enjoyed reading Jim's work, next up is Wolf!
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Rhody catching some zzzzzs
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Transfer, beer time!!!
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Arrival!
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Parking lot greeter
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ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Dougfish

"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
 Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? "
Kelly's Heroes,1970

"I don't wanna go to hell,
But if I do,
It'll be 'cause of you..."
Strange Desire, The Black Keys, 2006

Grannyknot

Looking forward to the other parts woolly.
My 2 most hated airports in the US.  Charlotte & Minn St Paul.
Flea is not the best bassist of all time.

Aka

Good choice in reading material. Harrison is in a class all to himself.

Dee-Vo

Waiting for more of the adventure.....

Dougfish

Quote from: Grannyknot on July 05, 2016, 07:48:57 AM
Looking forward to the other parts woolly.
My 2 most hated airports in the US.  Charlotte & Minn St Paul.

Just booked 2 flights into and out of MSP. One goes through Charchar both ways. I gots no problems with either.
One goes out through the dreaded Philly fuckport.  b';
"Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here?
 Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change? "
Kelly's Heroes,1970

"I don't wanna go to hell,
But if I do,
It'll be 'cause of you..."
Strange Desire, The Black Keys, 2006

Woolly Bugger


2016 – 54 2/9

Rhody had a hard on for Henry's Fork, so we hightailed it out of Bozeman with a cooler full on snad stuff and IPAs, stopped in at the Blue Ribbon Fly Shop, great place with no attitude. They laughed at my sign and the clerk needed to take a shot for his instagram. Loaded up with some flies and intel we headed on down the road.


Rhody checkin out the board
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Bugger posing for laughs
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When we got to the parking lot, anglers were coming off the river two by two, heads hung low, dejected. Scores of sea gulls swooped up and down the river picking of drakes despite the 30 knot winds that blew across the valley. We watched and waited, discussing our options while drinking a beer (or two) as the wind continued to whip anglers off the river. They had just bumped the flow and the bugs and fish were off.

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Drove on down to some riffles on the warm, seaking some shelter from the wind.
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That pretty much suxed too, no quarter from the wind which had its way with the fly line. Mending became impossible. We drank an beer and bailed on down through road construction to below Ashton Dam.
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Despite gale force winds there were fish rising, just beyond reasonable casting distance in the horrendous conditions. We persevered on until the wind really began to pick up and pushing at our backs threatened to know us down. The whitecaps on the river were blowing upstream and the fish continued to taunt us. We both had hits on the fly, but it was impossible for us to set the hook with so much water being  sprayed around by the wind.
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We bailed and headed to the Madison for the evening. Conditions weren't much better, but we both caught fish. Not much worth photographing, just punes like this one.
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Sunsetting on a brutal humbling day.
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Looking back east to the glow on the mountains.
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We headed on down the road to Ennis to our room at the Sportsman's Lodge.
We had a dinner and more beer at the Mexican place attached to the Gravel Bar.

Surely tomorrow would be better....




ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Grannyknot

Quote from: Woolly Bugger on July 05, 2016, 13:22:58 PM


When we got to the parking lot, anglers were coming off the river two by two, heads hung low, dejected. Scores of sea gulls swooped up and down the river picking of drakes despite the 30 knot winds that blew across the valley. We watched and waited, discussing our options while drinking a beer (or two) as the wind continued to whip anglers off the river. They had just bumped the flow and the bugs and fish were off.


There's a long chapter in Gierach's book "the view from rat lake" about the henrys fork seagulls.
Really good stuff so far Woolly.  Don't let off the gas.
Flea is not the best bassist of all time.

Jfey

I wasn't sure for a while, but now I know for certain that you officially suck!  0:0
Yup, going fishing

RiverbumCO

I wanna see that pic from IG fullsize of the bartenders butt.  A nice butt is hard to find in Man-tana.
My real name is Chad Farthouse.

Woolly Bugger

#10


2016 – 55 3/9

Since the 2nd day Idaho license was only $6.00 more we had elected for that option. We were headed to the ranch. Once again, anglers were coming off the water, but we had to see for ourselves.

Getting ready
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Clear skies, the wind had died down a bit from the day before..
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Hot and dry hike in...
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We ran into a couple from NC who had been out early, and reported how off the fishing had been.
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The bump in the flow had picked up all the shucks off the shore and thousands were floating down the river, but we very few other bug up on the flats.
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After a couple of hours of abuse and watching other the few other anglers and a couple of drift boats remain fishless we began the hike out. All the Rhody had to say was, "you should have been here three years ago"!

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Back at the bridge we watched yellow sallies and little caddis hatching as a drifter was anchored up in the run below, the clients throwing a bobber. The lady in the back hooked into a nice fish, but couldn't play it and I commented that she was going to break off, sure enough shortly later with the guide trying to net it, it was gone!
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Now back at the car for the first of many beers!
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We were convinced that the risers we saw the other day would be there in force and with the slack wind we would be sure to slay 'em. Worried about other anglers, we headed in a bit early with beerz and snads and waited and waited and waited. The only fish that rose was one big bastard way the fuck out in the middle of the river where, when you nailed a cast you got about 3 seconds of drift... fucker!

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Back on the Madison for the last hour of daylight, we found fish, several noice ranbows and has a blast until it got so dark that if was almost impossible to tie on another fly, even with the light of an iPhone.

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Back in town, we snagged a few more beers at the Gravel Bar, which, in our opinion was THE best bar in Ennis!

ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

Onslow

Quote from: RiverbumCO on July 06, 2016, 11:52:10 AM
I wanna see that pic from IG fullsize of the bartenders butt.  A nice butt is hard to find in Man-tana.

Was tempted to snap pic of a ravishing Cuban milf (2 kids) in a T back less than an hour ago.  We showered together at the park outdoor shower....not in the biblical sense.

Montana sux. Key West rocks! 

driver

Quote from: Onslow on July 06, 2016, 17:04:44 PM
Quote from: RiverbumCO on July 06, 2016, 11:52:10 AM
I wanna see that pic from IG fullsize of the bartenders butt.  A nice butt is hard to find in Man-tana.

Was tempted to snap pic of a ravishing Cuban milf (2 kids) in a T back less than an hour ago.  We showered together at the park outdoor shower....not in the biblical sense.

Montana sux. Key West rocks!
You in KW? If so, you a bastage.

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Woolly Bugger

#13

2016 – 56 4/9
Coffee and breakfast at the Yesterday Café. The Country Skillet is a day's worth of food. 

Talked to the owner of the motel, he said to go right off the park downtown. So I took a walk, caddis caddis caddis, and fish rising! Walked back, Willies' Distillery was open and samples were a buck, so I had a few before rounding up the lurker.

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We fished for a couple of hours until the fish stopped rising. It was pretty much a turkey shoot. See a fish rise and a couple of cast later you were hooked up.  Walked back to the lodge and began day drinking.

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Stopped in at a shop, had to look / buy more flies..

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Then the plan was to have a beer in every bar, but plans change and we were drinking two before moving on to the next bar.

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Things beyond this point are a little fuzzy, but I weaned off the IPAs with a Chalada...

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Back to the room to gear up for the evening hatch, we were watching the world walk by, when I looked over and saw that Rhody was snoozzing away..

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I geared up and was leaving when I nudged the Rhody by accident, he woke up and rose to the occasion, we both fished until dark thirty.

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Had a blast catching some punes and hooked into some tanks and missiles that unbuttoned or were camera shy 

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We fished dries until we could no longer see. Headed back to town for a double header at the bars.

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ex - I'm not going to live with you through one more fishing season!
me -There's a season?

Pastor explains icons to my son: you know like the fish symbol on the back of cars.
My son: My dad has two fish on his car and they're both trout!

gamatt53

Very nice. That corner of Montana/Idaho is basically heaven.  0:0