Fishing/Backpacking Trip

I'm interested in a 5 day backpacking/fly fishing trip & would appreciate some recommended places. Last year we did Slough Creek in Yellowstone & could not have asked for anything better! Trip date is end of August. thanks

Have you ever considered the southeast part of Wyoming? Outside Laramie. in the Medicine Bow Mountains (Snowy Range Area), is some of the "sweetest" brookie fishing to be found! Hiking at 10000+ feet, snow (yes, huge mounds of it...in July!), clear streams, cold ponds, backpack in to areas that see few humans. Incredible! Just got back, and I'm ready to go again! Can give you places, and specialized maps, if you're intested.

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Trouts don't live in ugly places



[This message has been edited by Betty Hiner (edited 16 July 2005).]

Hey there Betty:
Ya made my mouth water at the mention of the Snowy Range. I cut my trout flyfishing teeth in the Little Laramie River between Laramie and Centennial Wyo. Is the "cop car" still there at the bottom of the hill in Centennial? That jallopy has caused it's share of strokes no doubt. Those were my college days at U of Wyo but we still pass thru there yearly on our way back from the YStone and GNP parks. I fish the Little Laramie and then stop by the bookstore and get some "Cowboy" stuff.
Also: rickeyberetired, great suggestion from Betty. Beautiful mountain stresms and plains lakes that hold some great trout.

Mark

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I'd rather be in Wyoming!

Hey, Marco!
We stay at the Old Corral in Centennial! Between South Dakota and Centennial...oh,my! I could be happy for life!! Yes the cop car is still there! Back door fell off sometime last year! Teepee is still being lived in. In a town of 100 people, not much changes...thank goodness!! Brooklyn Lake still had about 6feet of snow around it. We met only three other fishing people in the week we were there (in the Snowy range), and many of the streams we were on, we were the only people within miles.
When were you at the UofW?

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Trouts don't live in ugly places

How about California's Golden Trout Wilderness? End of August should be great for a backpack trip.

Here's some pictures of the area from a recent pack trip posted on a forum:
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That area not only is home to the two strains of Golden trout but also the Kern Rainbow. Not many areas that you can catch three different native trout and take in some of the most spectacular scenery in the world.

Beside the native trout you will also have a chance to catch some very large browns that were introduced into that area many years ago. There are also some lakes in the area with very large brook trout, also introduced a long time ago.

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Joe

Hey there Betty;
Graduated UW in 65' ( a good year). Worked at the West Laramie Fly Store and at the "94" ranch. If ya remember Pat Selfs' original "Old Corral" restaurant where the steaks were as big as those in the movie " The man who shot Liberty Valence". No one person could finish them and the cost was $14 , lotsa mooola for a college kid but......... I would go into the Snowy Range for days at a tme and fish till I was blue.But my fav was the Little Laramie in small unmarked public access area under a RR trestle " the school section" where I teased and they me, many a fine trout .
Hey Rick, pardon the thread highjacking but Betty nmade me do it.

Mark

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I'd rather be in Wyoming!

Thanks for the advice. We've decided to head back to heaven - Slough Creek.