Yellowstone, GTNP to become paddling paradise?

[ScottP]

http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/yel...nt?oid=3620742

Pontoons stacked up on the Firehole, kayakers high-holing you on the Lamar (or getting high-centered in August when the flows are down to a p.ss-trickle)? Can't wait.


Regards,
Scott

[maodiver]

they DO have the same rights to use the rivers that fishers do, no?

[Gigmaster]

Any place I get to put my kayak in is Paddling Heaven, as far as I am concerned.

[Marco]

Unless I'm imagining things, I've been visiting both Y'Stone and GTNP for 40+ years and have always seen kayaks, canoes, rafts etc floating the rivers and streams ( where navigable for such craft). I may have not witnessed many but they were there for sure.

Mark

[ScottP]

Unless I'm imagining things, I've been visiting both Y'Stone and GTNP for 40+ years and have always seen kayaks, canoes, rafts etc floating the rivers and streams ( where navigable for such craft). I may have not witnessed many but they were there for sure.

Mark,

Only place I've seen watercraft on any rivers in Yellowstone was the Lewis River channel between Lewis and Shoshone Lakes; I've only been going there since 2000.

Regards,
Scott

[Marco]

Scott,
The Y'Stone watercraft WERE few and probably ignorant of the restrictions. GTNP, on the other hand, had and has launch and pullouts for small watercrtaft. One "busy" one is at the Jackson Lake dam on the Snake.
Funny you should mention ths Lewis River. My very first Y'Stone fish experience was on that river between Lewis Falls and Lewis Lake. That was at least 40 years ago. I was much younger then :>)

Mark