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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…
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Halfway Through the 2024 Fly Fishing Road Trip
I left California on July 20 so I’m now about five weeks into this year’s western road trip. I’ve got a campsite booked at Baker’s Hole on the Madison River for the last week of September, to hunt for the traveling browns that move upriver, so about five more weeks until you can reliably expect…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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A Green River Homestead
A Wyoming tie hack's property, 50 miles from nowhereIn 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…
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Another Look at the Dark Side of Catch and Release
I came across an article on a Wyoming website today that discusses the pressure fish face on some of the West’s iconic rivers. Actually, the story focuses on the North Platte’s Grey Reef section, which is one river I haven’t made it to yet, but the problem affects many popular rivers. “Almost a quarter of…