You wouldn't think it would take 2.5 years...
to catch a trout in the state where I live, but it did. For whatever reason, I've just always gone to Wyoming for my trout fishing. They're my home waters, I suppose. Even though I live in Montana, I'm a good 4 hours from the nearest trout water. But this week I took a little jaunt out to the west and had a good time.
The train doesn't run through here anymore, but this trestle is pretty awesome nonetheless.
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Day one was spent swinging streamers. There were a few bugs coming off, but nothing was rising to them. This was the typical fish:
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Day two I started out swinging streamers and caught a couple of browns, but after lunch quite a few baetis started coming up, and the fish were looking for them. Unfortunately, my camera battery died, so I didn't get any pictures, but I probably caught somewhere in the neighborhood of a dozen fish, almost all 'bows.
That evening I headed over to the Missouri Breaks to scout out the area for elk season in the fall. Most of these bulls had already dropped their antlers from last year.
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Right off the road I found a sharptailed grouse lek. I pulled off a ways past them and was able to watch them do their little dance for a while.
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If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out this example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn0adxxPwAw
