Very encouraging piece . Its good to see good news for a change.
thanks DShock
GBF,
They are a truly beautiful fish and I enjoyed reading about Kipling’s experiences.
Doug
I’ll second that!
Great news for our beloved Yellowstone…
Just to add a bit of pictorial evidence of their beauty. BTW this photo also demonstrates the problem with fishing alone. I caught this beauty earlier this month just South of Y’Stone NP and just HAD to take a picture before release. I assure all ,the out of water time was less than 30 seconds. Hated to lay him down like that but…Would have been less if YOU were there.
Mark
Nice Mark, good job. 8)
Mark,
It doesn’t get any better than that! 
Doug
Marco,
Mighta made it there if there’d been an invite to join ya. Very nice fish. Fished inside YNP back in '88. First fish on was a 24 inch Yellowstone cutt on a size 14 GRHE. Great fish, no digital cameras back then.
REE
Hey there REE,
I was judicious in sending out invites onaccounta it happens that MY personal WYO Fish-In and YOUR FAOL ID Fish-IN ran concurrently. Not only THAT, but they were at the same time too. I’da joined y’all in ID but you " can’t get there from here" . By our campfire, there were many clinks of paper crystal glasses and, looking slightly NW, toasts to " them, over those hills", however.
Mark
When I was at the FFF Conclave this year, Bear Samples took us up to upper Mill Creek, a tributary of the Yellowstone. We fished above a weir that was put in many years ago to keep the Rainbows and Browns from going up any farther on the creek. We were catching a pure strain of the Yellowstone Cutthroat. Beautiful fish and fun fighters, even if they were not as big as they used to catch back in the 19th Century. I had a good time that evening, and saw some country that I had not seen before.
Larry
the miracle is that the fish come back. it takes a lot of work, money, persistence and love, but in the end the fish come back, no matter where. spoke to a guy from PA who runs a company that will come and fix your section of stream so trout will live in it again. he says that the fish usually come back in two or three days after his big equipment leaves.
who d’you suppose tells them it’s okay to go back?
Larry -
A minor point of clarification - you were actually fishing the lower part of Mill Creek. There is practically no fishable water below that “weir” during mid-summer. There are miles of much better water to fish farther up. You’re right about the fish being beautiful.
My wife and I spend the summer and fall on the Yellowstone, a mile upriver from Mill Creek.
John
Marco,
Understand completely about the timing. I presume that those toasts to those of us over those hills, you being fly fishers and gentlemen, were made with a fine single malt. There’s always next year for the Fish-In.
REE
Ron,
Rest assured it was a fine aged Glenmorangie for some of us. Others with less refined “buds” chose less stellar concoctions like Miller Lite or such. 
Nevertheless we all wished you all good weather and success astream, much like we enjoyed.
Mark