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Waiters

Last minute check on gear. If anyone has not gotten their waiters let me know before Thursday. I'm bringing a back up reel, but not the boots/waiters unless someone needs them. And contrary to what John V. says, they are free of charge.

Here she is, big game cart, steel construction, duel solid rubber tires and she will easily hold 300lbs of the slow teams gear:)   see you all soon    Johnny V 

Itinerary change

     getting jumpy. Just found out last night that the road from canyon village to tower is closing on sept 22. the day we get there. this means that tower creek campground is closed for the winter on sat. No big gig. We will go directly to slough creek base camp and stay there. It is only 2 miles away. It is first come first serve so Jake, Brown, Carlos, and myself ( I will call it "the go team") will get there as early on sat. as we can and reserve at least two sites. If for some reason there is a problem there is another campground not to far from there called pebble creek. that will be the back up. Once we get our sites sat morning we will then go to tower-roosevet to the ranger station, get our back county premit, take any classes we need, get our fishing licenses, and call johnny V and tell him where we will be.
    We will not be able to fish tower creek which sucks but we will still be able to fish the yellowstone and maybe do some recon on the slough before we go backcountry.
    The road closure adds about 25 more mins to the drive for both the go team and the slow team but it does force our hand in that we will be traveling right past Mammoth hot springs. So bring your suits so we can take a dip in the only place in the park where you can bathe it the hot springs.
   

The packages have been assembled

Here are the Yellowstone fishing packages that I have put together.
     1 spool of 6x frog hair fluorocarbon tippet,

     1 spool of 5x frog hair fluorocarbon
     1 "ultimate" dry fly furled leader with strike indicator tip
     1 Hi-vis nymph furled leader
     6 neon yellow strike indicators
     103 flies (I am not listing the patters, figure it out)

     1 double sided fly box

Hillbilly Fly fishin!!

some old pics from our first trip

closing in on d-day. Here are a couple of pics from our first trip. Tower Creek and Madison confluence at Madison campground.

Wolf-Mobile

It's bear proof.

yellowstone bears

I was listening to npr this morn and they had a great interview with a bear expert about the bears we will encounter. Here are the links:

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/natural-intelligence/the-grizzly-truth.html?page=1

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/shoot-or-spray.html

http://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/nature/How-to-Handle-a-Grizzly-Bear-Encounter.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0707/Yellowstone-grizzly-attack-Why-did-it-happen

Itenerary

1. Friday Sept. 21- John, Carlos will meet jake and Brownie in Idaho Falls. Get a hotel and spend the night. Dano will fly to Denver. He and Johnny V will find a fishing hole some where in Wyoming.
2. Saturday Sept. 22- Carlos, Jake, Brownie, and John will hit up a store for supplies and then make our way to Tower-Roosevelt campground. We will try to fish Tower creek that evening. 
3. Sunday Sept. 23- Carlos, Jake, Brownie, and John will get up and fish the Yellowstone river. Johnny V and Dano will make there way to Cody Wyoming and pick Joe Occi up at noon. After that they will make there way to Tower-Roosevelt camp. This is important. Everyone needs to stop at a ranger station to get a fishing license and take a quick back-county class from a ranger. This needs to be done before Monday.
4. Monday Sept. 24- Everyone breaks camp and hikes into Slough creek 2nd meadow campground. We stay here until Wend or Thursday depending on the fishing.
5. Thursday Sept. 27- Everyone breaks camp and makes there way to Madison campground. We will have the opportunity to fish Madison river, gibbon river, firehole river. Johnny V has also put the idea out there to do some lake fishing.
6. Saturday Sept. 29- Carlos, Occi, Jake, Brownie and John make our way to Idaho falls. Johnny V and Dano make there way to Denver.
7. Sunday Sept. 30- Everyone goes home.

great web site

what up folks. I have frequented this site many times. It is a great reasource for how to videos, articles, ect. Check it out. Especially the fly casting help videos.

http://midcurrent.com/

Salmon Fly Hatch

Time lapse of a salmon fly hatch in Maupin, OR. May 12th, 2012

Deshutes 2009 The movie

finally got it on youtube. follow the link.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMuh3lxEwaE&feature=channel&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMuh3lxEwaE&feature=channel&list=UL

Does anyone else check the blog? Pics, old and new, 4 u who do!

 Johnny S and Jake approx 8 years ago in OR.

 When I was just learning to fly fish, note Johnny's sweet stogie and my hat also in the 4th pic, taken today(18in red side).

Dano ready for business, also note: same gear Carlos is attempting to sell:)

Glock22 .40 Caliber

Just got this Glock 22, .40 Caliber for the trip, will fine tune my skills over the next few months. The trade off from a 44mag, or 10mm, is #of rounds, speed, $, weight and accuracy.

Spare Parts

I bought a few new fishing items this off season and have a few spare parts I'm willing to part with.



Pictured above is a set of wadders and boots size 9.5
These originally belonged to Dano, but unless he wanted them back, they can be yours. They have seen better days and will leak on you after a full day in the river, but you can't beat the price.



This is a very inexpensive reel, that I think came from Jake's old set up. It still has some line backer but you'll need to supply your own line. Included with the reel is the dazzling red case pictured to the right, which doubles as a beer cooze.

I'm planning on bringing these items with me, so if you're interested in using, owning or are the rightful owner and want them back, let me know. I also have a back up tent that someone can borrow. It's a one man hike tent which will be perfect for the hike into Slough Creek.

places to get stuff for the trip

What up bitches?
here is a fly box I think kicks ass and it is cheap. It is double sided and waterproof and clear. It will hold the flys that we need and it is cheap.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fly-Box-waterproof-double-sided-see-our-fly-reels-line-/120885055498?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c254f900a#ht_1050wt_907

Dano getting ur done!

John and Dan-O the early years

Found this old picture of John and Dan-O learning to fly fish. John is the one with the red ray bans.

Maupin, OR: The Honeyist of Holes

Here's quick video from a trip to Maupin about a year ago.