Palisades Creek - Part 2 of 2
From the first place I fish, I choose spots as I head downstream toward the trailhead. This is another one of my favorites. It's usually good for a number of fish, again, along the wall and down a bit from the lower end of the pool.
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Today, with the water running high, fish simply would not come up from the bottom of the pool for a dry, and the current against the rock wall was pretty strong.
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But in the tailout, three more cutts went for the Yellow Humpy. All three were in the same place, and took the fly just the same way.
The sight of a cutthroat rising to a dry fly is just about the best thing in fly fishing for my money, whether they are big or more like this one.
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On the way down from here, I fished a number of places that looked promising. In several, I landed more cutts like the two pictured above. In several, I didn't get any hits, let alone hook ups.
On the day, I ended up with about 18-20 cutts, all on the Yellow Humpy except for the three that took a flying lea... ant at the first place I fished.
Here are a few more views of Palisades Creek. Click on the photo and enjoy.
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John
Western Wyoming - Tri Basin Divide - Part 1
Spent the morning yesterday travelling to the Tri Basin Divide area in Western Wyoming. A hundred miles plus of pavement then about 45 miles of dirt, gravel and rock before I got to the divide.
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Just a sign, right ?? Doesn't mean much. EXCEPT, this is a very unusual, if not unique, place.
Over the hill behind the sign is the headwater of the Smith Fork and just a few miles further and a bit south is the headwater of Hobble Creek, which joins the Smith Fork fifteen or twenty miles downstream.
Hobble Creek was part of the route for the Lander Cut-Off on the Oregon Trail. Several years ago Deborah and I hiked four or five miles from the LaBarge Meadows Guard Station to Hobble Creek along the ruts made by the thousands of wagons that passed through here a century and a half ago.
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When all is said and done, the Smith Fork and Hobble Creek, along with other streams and rivers forming the Bear River, empty into the Great Salt Lake in the Great Basin.
To the left of the sign is the LaBarge River, which begins in a beautiful meadow.
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More than a little history here. Western history from about a hundred and fifty years ago.
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The LaBarge River waters eventually join the Green, then the Colorado, and end up at the end of the Colorado River system, wherever that happens to be any given year.
( Continued )