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  • The Bighorn River below the Three Mile Access

    Fly Fishing Scenes, August in Montana

    I started the month down on the Crow Reservation, on the Bighorn river below Yellowtail dam. Cottonwood camp was the base for the first few nights, then I moved to the Bighorn access point downstream. A nasty thunderstorm blew in and threatened the huge tree I was parked under, so I beat feet up to…

  • The Fun Mover at Harrison Pass, Nevada

    2006 Fun Mover 31C

    SOLD! We had a lot of good times, baby. I’ll miss you. This Four Winds Fun Mover has been my full time home since 2015 and has faithfully carried me from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast and back every year without fail. It is fantastically useful to be able to carry all your stuff…

  • August 2024 Tetons Sunset

    A Look Back at Fly Fishing in 2024… WTF, Mate?

    2024 was the ninth year that I’ve been a full-time RV’er and I have been looking to upgrade to a new model for the next ten years. My business has been good this last year, or rather you could say I worked more than I wanted. A happy result is that I’ve saved a substantial…

  • La Barge Creek Rd, Wyoming

    A Day on La Barge Creek, Wyoming

    I was really hoping to find a creek full of wild and colorful cutthroat trout, and to have a day perhaps like that one years ago on Long Draw in Colorado. I’d watched some YouTube videos of guys fishing small creeks up in the boonies of southwestern Wyoming, and I pinned a couple of rivers…

  • The Green River below Weeping Rock, Fontenelle, WY

    A Day Floating the Green Below Fontenelle

    My spot on the Green River at the Slate Creek campground just didn’t look very fishy. A few smaller fish would rise erratically, eating bugs that remained unidentified. Sure, there were some trico spinners in the morning, and some tiny PMDs in the afternoon, but I never saw either bug on the water in numbers…

  • Green River Sunset, Fontenelle, WY

    Wyoming Sights and Sounds, Pt. 2

    Previous post, Sights and Sounds, Pt. 1 When I got back to camp after that enjoyable day on the Ham’s Fork, the door to my RV would not open. What the hell? The key worked the lock, but it would not unlatch. I had to go in through the garage, and the damn latch would…

  • A family of pronghorn antelope graze along the Green River, at Fontenelle, WY

    Wyoming Sights and Sounds, Pt. 1

    This road trip that I’m two weeks into has thrown some curve balls at me, but has also provided some really interesting audio/visual encounters. The curve balls started with the overheating problem that I encountered climbing the Sierra Nevada on day one. Which seems to have been resolved with the new fan clutch and thermostat…

  • Lake Viva Naughton, WY

    Wyoming Rambles: The Ham’s Fork

    I’ve made it to Wyoming after a somewhat leisurely drive across the Great Basin in 100 degree heat. I had been eying West Wendover, NV for the first night, about five and a half hours out of Reno. But as I approached one of my regular stops, Carlin Canyon on the Humboldt River, I thought…

  • Dead Indian Pass on the Chief Joseph Highway in Wyoming

    Mountain Passes in a Heavyweight RV

    I’ve finally managed to break free from work in California to head east towards the Continental Divide. The heat wave has yet to break, and my motorhome complained to me on the way up CA-20 towards Grass Valley yesterday. For the first time in almost ten years, the temperature gauge moved off the middle and…

  • Ruins at Green River Lakes

    A Green River Homestead

    In the Pandemic Year of 2020, I was working in Colorado but had a couple of breaks where I was able to sneak out to visit some of my favorite places. In August I went to Jackson Hole and stopped on the way to fish the Green River, up above Warren Bridge to the headwaters…