North Platte streamers

[sperry]

Any suggestions for fall streamers on the North Platte wilderness area? Has anybody fished Rock Creek In the snowy mountains between Laramie and the North Platte?

[Marco]

Hey Sperry;
The only place I can direct you to in that area is just outside Saratoga called "Treasure Island". About a two mile stretch of public access on the N. Platte with plenty of good fish. Streamers ?? Depends on water conditions, flow rates etc. in that area. Good luck.

Mark
Fishin Wyoming, at least for now.

I've had the best luck on rainbow clousers (clousers tied to look like small rainbow trout) and smaller wooly buggers in the higher-elevation streams. This time of year they are low and clear and bigger, flash streamers, at times, can be too much fly. I've never fished Rock Creek but I think it's fairly small, so you might want to try small to medium sized streamers. If you do make it down to the platte , try lead-eye or conehead wooly buggers, and big ones - size 2 or 4. Brown/yellow or olive body/black tail and hackle are both deadly. This is a very nice time of year to fish southeast Wyoming, but the remaining season can end abrubptly at the higher elevations.

Have fun,

-John

[danbob]

Howdy Sperry. I just returned from the N Platte wilderness; we fished it last monday and tuesday, then went up to Pinedale to fish some lakes. We went down into Northgate Canyon via Pickaroon gap -- from the WEST side. What a road! My little Ford Ranger has not forgiven me yet....next time we'll enter from the east.

We caught plenty of small browns, but nothing big. Slot limit to throw back is 10-16". Most action was on a small, long skinny white nymph dropper off a BWO -- never even got a hit on the dry. It was so windy none of the hatches did us any good--filled the air with them like confetti. The river is way down and the big fish are wary -- we didn't get anything over 12 inches.

To answer your streamer question -- I fished muddlers from small to big with only a couple moderate-sized fish. Tried pretty much everything else in my streamer box except the big lake flies, not much action. The nymph on the dropper, both bumping the bottom and in the surface film, was the trick for small browns. My normal copper johns and peacocks didn't work, they seemed to like light colored, non-shagy nymphs.

As for big browns -- we'll be back next week to dredge for them with streamers. Maybe we'll see you on the river!
DANBOB




The North Platte in King's Gate Canyon, 9/19/05, looking downstream (north). Where are those big brown hawgs?

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[MR.JML]

Depends on water level. Off the cuff, a Black/Red Glass Bead Rattlesnake or an Olive Gold Bead Rattlesnake. Also a Zoo Couger, & a Black Wooley Sculpin (use black/gold speckled chennile for underbody) !!!