Have been gone since the 6th Elk hunting and fishing in Colorado/Wyoming respectively.
Spent all day thursday fishing on the North Fork of the Tongue river on the top of the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. Most of the river is fly and lure only and anglers can only keep brook trout. In the first section and on the first hole/riffle I caught a decent brown on a #16 BH prince nymph under a strike indicator. A fun fish on my new TFO 8' 4pc. 4wt. I have to say I really like TFO's rods.
Missed another fish with the barbless hook and walked back down stream to meet up with the rest of the group....dad, uncle, cousin, dog. Dad had caught one brown, uncle one brown, cousin 7 browns a rainbow and two brookies.
The stream had it's share of beavers move in since my last trip there and had much more water where it wasn't a few years back. My cousin found some holes that were loaded with fish and switched to a wooly bugger.
I switched too while being shunned by my dad....he's a dry fly freak...refuses to use a WB on a stream. Caught a nice rainbow.
After a quick bite to eat and a short ride to a different section we spread out throughout the willows and and each found our own sections of stream to work over. Within an hour I had had released 15 cuts, a brookie and a brown. THAT's RIGHT....another SLAM. Brook, Brown, Rainbow, and Cut. Not a bad day's work.
My cousin joined me with his first slam and after some more fishing and a little bit of filming we headed to camp for some nice wyoming ribeyes.
In a catch and release section you gotta go barbless or don't go at all. no point in tearing the fish up.
here's the south fork of the tongue right near our campsite. not the best fishing since it's a take fishery. Still some fish to be had if you're patient. I just took pics while my cousin landed a few small browns.
Here's my first north fork brown of the trip.
a little scenery
a visitor.
more to come...video when I take the time to figure out the new camera.
Great pictures, makes you want to be there and give it a try. Never did the freshwater trout thing. That seems like rocket science to me, where you really have to match the hatch stalk the fish etc. Sure looks like a great spot and best of all no jet skiers like in the salt.
hey sikorsk, doesn't surprise me that you would make note of the beaver population. looks like you had a good time . i am all about the olive and grey wooly bugger hatch . gonna be fishing the daylights out of eastern bay soon . well have to link up talk to ya soon.
Here are a few pics to hold you over until I get the videos done. Here's one of Paul's better cutthroat of the day. A nice and colorful one. He's the upper end of average size for the river. The problem is the small ones are more aggressive.
It's a still from the vid....still trying to edit the vids.
Here's my only trophy from the elk hunt. A 5x5 skull. Found the whole thing on a hillside.
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looks like you had a good time . i am all about the olive and grey wooly bugger hatch . gonna be fishing the daylights out of eastern bay soon . well have to link up talk to ya soon.
