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RE: Doing Summer Time - fishskibum - 06-10-2021 Traveling during a global pandemic was different I had promised my wife i would drastically alter our usual mo of bfast at Irmas happy hours and economy stimulus of dive bars and looking back at the numbers and infection rates of wyo and mt we could not of picked a better time. At that time the only place that required masks or face coverings as i like the buff and bandana was walmart and every fly shop i stopped at. i did stop here and git ice smokes and a bloody mary at the Edelweiss ![]() and bust out the stick and attempt to swing another up Had a hand shake grab but came unstucks more signages of history without makin a thread about my summer bums road trips all political i will say im a big fan of personal liberties and freedom and others rights to freedumbs and i believe the nez perce took the shaft of manifest destiny's sword about as hard as it comes and cheif joseph was a stud Imho Custer and the 7th cav lost a battle at little big horn and wounded knee was a massacre of women and children but were all free to call em as we see em aint never mined i do have a friend who owns one, the thor mine, in cardiff fk into mineral up the bcc and while spending a good chunk of my life removing and applying roofins product isnt an easy way of earning fun tickets it pales on every level to mining especially in those days Crossed into MT drove thru deer lodge which was crowded stopped here to cool down the furkids ive always thought of myself as part of a tribe the sliding down snow covered slopes tribe and the whippy stick fly flingers so odd things like the tribe losing its young braves seem to affect me more these days a bit young to pour a sip out but yeah i made some casts for him its what we do and the murs i do it the murs me thinks the hdt cat has it right ![]() tbc beats me why ya cant manage to puts more than 10 pics in a post but im pretty sure the majority would like less stream of stonerness bum ramblins and more pics could be wrong dont really to much care no one makes ya read pr not read em the thor mine ![]() ![]() RE: Doing Summer Time - fishskibum - 06-13-2021 well yeah wouldnt cha know it its that time o year again better half took our niece whose working from our home for a few weeks to ![]() bit to hot for me and the fur child wasnt sure where we were going the paths shake n bake beat lost a trailer hitch pin theres the right tool for the job and stuff ya got ![]() safety chains matter walked back a 1/2 mile and looked on the way out didnt see it but theres plenty of other trailer road kill campgrounds are finally open kinda glad they dont have change nor a functioning credit card machine as i was gonna camp there maybe a dozen crafts on the water mostly rubber kinda nice not dealing with fossil fuel burning wave chop all day risers o plenty at launch but the wind came up plenty of catching ![]() and while tight lines is cool and all the amount of tension on em does 2me had 1 nice cutty that i lost trying to handline the waterproof camera shot with what turned out to be a full memory card Used to do pretty good there fore the turn of the centuries and it was the better 1/2 favorite camp ground as the berry is meh and mismanaged i guess theyre putting in yurts this season for the glampers but there not in yet things move slow at elevation well cept for snowmelt this year not much lingering We'll be back perfect slimer sup lake bailed in hopes of a more substantial bending of the whippy sticks there were plenty of campers and people plying the water below so we didnt stop or pull off made a left to continue 40 freedom bachelor weekend wanted to go to see zed or jones hole, im pretty sure it should be game on for gorge carp in the bays bout now never fished cottonwood cept a few casts from shore and im not sure whats still in bulluck got sick of driving fast and the more i use the sp pass the cheaper it was freds place works ended up at juniper found some beachfront property launched the hog and started stickin smallies ![]() gots the eyes 2 eat my flies ![]() i guess yur sposed to keep em but on the chance it makes it to 13 then onto 20 sumpthins i let it go seems to me if theres a little fish problem well please put the tigger muskies in they seem to do a good job at that think i had a better eye on sumthins got a new baby gonga peircing and at least i got a good couple dozen out of him some day im gonna tie with proficiancy but under a dollar a fish and supporting the local fly shop and sirilankian economy is okay i like the loop knot imho theres no way you git the same actions outta a frictionless knot but a few hundred casts of friction i need to slow down and retie more tend to git in the zone trolled back from knights got a decent bow and a couple smash n grabs unknown perps plenty of dusk snoots pretty wild fire enhanced sunset pretty minimal boat traffic fri and not many out late threw the tent up thankfully everybody got settled in and shut off their gennies by 11 got up early 4ish starvation always seems windy in the am slept an hour heard the motors got up cant fish the walleye chop all day if ya dont start in the am a few boats out early stuck another bass on my first cast and sent the skunk outta the boat right off the bat headed back to the deep water point ive found the eyes at before but no love other than a few more all but one slightly stunted bass heckofa nice morn to ply a craft of pleasure trolled back packed the tent headed back out stuck a stickbending line tensioner that got giggy with it as big bows tend to do rowed over to the bay across the way to look for the poopfish in the shallows to complete the weekend grand slam or hopin for a brownie but didnt see a single carp and nor caught a brownie in years there starvations funny that way picked up another slimer on the way back stopped and helped my dad git his window ac units outta storage and in im trying to git him back to the green and his happy place for dads day this week he needs it aint no cure ac and fishin sure dont hurt RE: Doing Summer Time - fishskibum - 08-11-2021 Hasnt been the best summer for me My pops has had a bunch of health issues and dealing with them and his declining health and mental state has taxed me hard we dont want to take his independence but his and others health and safety trumps his freedom at this point I was kinda hopin the mrs. decision to not procreate would save me from dealing with tough love Not that it didnt work for me didnt git to spend my customary 2 weeks on the road and missed the annual rendezvous of my fishy e-friends irl good or bad news dependin on how you look at it is i dont have another couple hundred pictures and can possibly finish this one and count a few blessing man it goes fast seems like the solstice was yesterday did manage to fish it though ![]() anyhow back to the last doin summer road trip left cody took the road lest traveled more tributes to men of great courage and gumption theres courage and theres the undaunted courage that mr. Ambrose documented damn well if ya need a good read what would seaman do watched few workin men float by and ![]() i thought about riggin and tossin but if ya dont wanna git skunked dont throw and lifes to short to fomo let the newf do newf and stretched the legs took on some substance loaded up rocked out a couple hours to roll into camp on the one they call the mighty Mo and settled into camp our friend had scored RE: Doing Summer Time - fishskibum - 08-12-2021 The mo's cool Craigs a cool town much like Ft smith, last chance and dutch johns, drinkin towns with fishin problems ![]() kinda place were at times a 30 sumthins kid with out a boat, few decades of piscatorial pursuits, limited skills, 1 stick and and a single box of flies could slay em yet years gears and more flies than i need later repeatedly humbles me in multiple ways woke to another day of rising suns and troots ran shuttles and got the float on welcome to herbivore fishing put jose on the sticks i guess we didnt git skunked ![]() Our friends managed to put a couple nice fish in the net the furkid made a new friend and picked up on his partners swimmin prowess ![]() the hours and river miles pass as we enjoy or fly flinging crafts i think thats my 10 RE: Doing Summer Time - Cowboypirate - 08-15-2021 I think furkid was havn more fun than the whole lot of ya. RE: Doing Summer Time - fishskibum - 08-15-2021 well yeah its what they do Captain Meriweather Lewis shelled out $20 ,1803, bucks for something he thought was gonna benefit the corps of discovery travels. and Seaman a newfoundland dog turned out to be a very adapt and valued member of the team, completing the trip and helped to protect the team on multiple occasions. ![]() Im as bad at math as spellins and grammer so doing inflation mathmetics aint happening but id never tell ya the couple grand i spend on the 4 legged life enhancing travel companions isnt some of the best monies i have and will continue to spend ![]() you pass under another bridge the topography starts to change and you leave the canyon the river widens and slows The locals stung a few more jose and i got buzzed again the takeout comes and shuttles git run another days becoming done If you aint humbled by gittin to spend it on a iconic american waterway of great lore ya just may be a bits jaded or worried to much about keepin score RE: Doing Summer Time - fishskibum - 08-15-2021 sum things age well and better than others been a hot one 21 worth of trip digits days has the garden way behind but fruits n vegs of labor are harvested made plans for the next day to float from the dam back to camp called the mrs. that night, she doesnt cry nor hang up on me a lot, but when she does theres usually gonna be a change of plans involved and as a precursor of this summer i was gonna come back early and deal with my dads problems and she misses her god and i better be takin good care of him the neighbors both had the covids, utah was peakinglike predicted and i better be adhering to the common sense limited interactions to necessities and covering my face things i told here i was gonna do while traveling during a mass global pandemic. Looking back at mt and wyo numbers for that time i was probably safer on the road as the numbers were still quite low there and very little of the local populations were takin much precautions except every fly shop was no mask no enter. and i still could fish my way homeward bound but better be back for the weekend the spinners showed up to cheer me up its a cycle of life thing try n focus 10/10 would and will be makin plansand hopes to be back to that camp Woke and broke camp said goodbye to new friends hit the road to check another classic western waters of the list checked out the river and ramp conditions and decided to try and find a downstream camp resupply at the sunrise fly shop awesome store btw and ended up you are here hugeness is a state of mind by the time we scored a camp and headed back weather conditions had changed we were probably gonna git wet and it was gonna be a hard day on the sticks with 4 of us in the boat RE: Doing Summer Time - Cowboypirate - 08-16-2021 You have likely seen photos of the Wookie - my friend when i go solo. Those trips are that much better when he is along.. Unfortunately, German Shepards are prone to hip disease, and his days are slowly coming to a close. I buried my beagle last year and 7 dogs before that rest on a knoll up on the ranch overlooking our deer camp. I swear each time that I cant do it again, but life just is not quite right without a hound trying to help me unhook a brookie. Photos of our last two and our first two ![]() ![]() RE: Doing Summer Time - fishskibum - 08-25-2021 there special creatures ![]() im blessed to spend my time in the company of newfoundlands ![]() thread needs sum Harrison as a any road trip to Jims hood outta contain Quote:The stars have been getting to large lately,well yeah it poured stoic god is stoic i cant believe it took me 2 and 1/2 decades to float this iconic one i think we got a few fish, but had my hands full as the fly shop guys said probably the last hard boat week, wind and tough vis, and im sure we banged a few more Harrison Quote:Time Again (2) RE: Doing Summer Time - fishskibum - 09-18-2021 well yeah ya dont stop time its a slow turning thing pour a sip out for mr watts keepin time for the glimmer twins wasnt easy and aint no way the worlds a more funny place without norm mac. I try to do a post labor day rendezvous with my hugeflyfishermans fam and assorted crews 5th or 6th it all just kinda blends in its slow turning made it thru ft bridger round dawn early enough that their mountainpeeps rendezvous didnt cause much delay better weather than last year ![]() went up sunday holiday weekend clusterboogie in full effect couldnt find a campsite i wanted res is at 75ish % now river flows 1500-1800 cfsish stoked the sponsor and better 1/2 finally made one bummed my dad couldnt make another She came up monday and we got a few to eat the hoppers down in mr browns park ![]() the crew o roos showed up and the weekend warriors left sheldon made a new friend loaded up and launched at the dam ![]() Passed a gaggle of large bobber wielding guide boats the 1st mile or so and saw very few boats after good to be back on the home waters or in em in sheldons case in em stuck a few left a canyon to a hole and floated on downrivers my guide put me into a few more ![]() limit out on ![]() never sucks to row the sik gnars clean ![]() ![]() puts me at 50% for the year ![]() pulled into camp and set up mallow roasting smores life skills matter sheldons swum till he bonked another day dawns There really isnt a bad camp on the river Red creeks definitely one of the more scenic ones betties and gogurts sheldon swam and we busted out the big sticks of both hands needed mr brown continued to eat the hoppers the mrs. split to git my dad in for another ticker test at taylors i dont often ditch the fur kid but i did tried to put the grommet into a fish floated on the huge one jumped up front and stuck a hopper sippin hog with the groms 6 1/2 foot glass echo geko ![]() RE: Doing Summer Time - Jig-fisher - 09-18-2021 Great pictures. Looks like a great float as well. RE: Doing Summer Time - fishskibum - 09-19-2021 rolled into camp and busted out the shade and the sup everyone retired early that night the rude god, huge one and i got up early and stuck a few from camp bfast conventional style and unconventional loaded up and headed down for the final day stuck a few ![]() the kids had a blast on the sup and it floated the whole crew well the river miles flow by and before you know it your at the takeout made a few final casts loaded up the big blue roo carriers and said goodbyes with plans to git the float on again in the future went to go find boblandia as carp diem cat had purchased some land up on taylors flat 1st step in curb appeal diggin the curbs ![]() spreads got potential willow came and says tell me more about these boat things you speak off i headed back to the river camp as i had left the groover and tent set up and didnt feel like diggin out a new spot friday dawned I reminded myself i was using pto from work and the 1st step to being a professional poopfisherman is gittin paid to do it and show up weather /wind forecast looked good all morn drove to the res and threw the king kamia mia sup in didnt take long to find em and it never sucks to git em from the gits go the high clouds and wind help off most of the morning ![]() managed a few slobs ![]() wind picked up road it around jug hollow to the next bay found a few more tailers tearing up the flats in spring creek ![]() hiked back to the truck and drove over to pull out the sup and head back to boblandia where the hell is boblandia? up on bobs bluff lumpy showed up with the skin and fur kid and we were treated to a banner sunset and dug out a fire pit bucked my camp at swallow and headed to boblandia 4 breakfast via griddle and to roust the crew tried to put in at cowboy but the water hadnt come up yet inflated the duckie for the grommets and drove it downstream of the white waters loaded up and got the float on put the skin kids in the ducky and lumpys furkid in the back despite her wanting to ride up front lumpy tied a couple on and stuck some fish the abodes of the canyons denizens mr powell namesaked a century and 1/2 ago floated on stopped for lunch and the lab to do lab RE: Doing Summer Time - fishskibum - 09-20-2021 the willow one says i guess these boat things you spoke off aint bad ![]() floated on lumpy stuck a few mur kids had fun winds cranked up and a front was coming through pulled out n back to boblandia loaded up in the rain n made er home fore dark id forgotten how soul refreshing time on home waters with friends and fams can be RE: Doing Summer Time - Bovineowner - 09-20-2021 Awesome Pictures as always amigo! Love your posts! I sure look forward to your adventures. Many Thanks! Sorry to hear your Pop is fighting age. Its a battle we all face. In the middle of that myself. Aint no fun. RE: Doing Summer Time - Panchodog - 09-20-2021 Lotta ![]() ![]() |