Fear No ROCK!

The Summer is offically here in PINEDALE! The rivers are still high but running clear. We floated the upper green today and had great streamer action. The water temp increased to 52 degrees when we loaded the boat. We had a lot of success, but not much in the way of size. This brown was the biggest of the day. Good old Mavis--- AKA Guide Guy--- guided me right to the fish! LOL! Look for the local rivers to start fishing good to great in a few weeks. I think we are on the edge of having some great summer dry fly action. Our local waters are starting to see the Jackson crowd in bunches. I wonder if the snake river near jackson ran out of water??

This past week here in Pinedale has brought a dramatic change in the weather. Snow today, rain and 50 mph wind yesterday, 70 degree temp with sunshine on monday and tuesday. The upper green continues to hold clear enough to fish, but gets pretty muddy near warren bridge. The New Fork remains high and off-color. In a few weeks things around pinedale should start clearing up and we should start to see some of our summer hatches on the water. I had family in town this last week and fished a few days with them. Here is a picture of a nice rainbow from this last week on the Green. This was also the first trip of the year in the new boat. I bought an Outcast PAC 1400. It is sweet! This is also the first fish in the new boat! Congrats Roger! Great Fish!

Rain, Wind, and Clouds!

The fishing around Pinedale this week is going to be slim to none on the local rivers and creeks, due to the high water and run-off. The flows on the new fork and green are crazy high and muddy. Look for the upper sections of the green to clear up first. This section usually clears quickly but maintains to run at a high level, which pushes the fish to the banks and makes for some great streamer fishing. If you are looking for a place to fish this weekend, you may want to head to a still water. Soda lake has been good in the evening when the wind stops blowing. Cast to rising fish with small midges or chronomidges. check back in a few days! Later

2010 Fishing Coming Soon!

When will the water rise around Pinedale? Hopefully before the fish start too! Our local waters are hurting bad currently. Low water levels are effected more then just the number of floatable trips. However, on the bright side, rumors around town are that the Green is off-color from run-off and starting to rise this weekend. The New Fork is still clear as of today, but I am betting that it too will see some pre-run-off conditions soon. The fishing around pinedale will soon be postponed for a few weeks while we wait for the water to clear, but for the fish's sake, We need water bad! Meanwhile, enjoy some local lakes, ponds or tailwaters for a few weeks. The ice-packed snowdrifts and banks in the Wind River Range will take awhile to break down and clear out the rivers.



Here is my biggest brown trout to date. An absolute monster. Hooked jaw male brown that measured 27 inches and was figured near 10 lbs. My amazing wife even drove out to my fishing hole to take photos for me. This fish still swims the local lake and hopefully someone else will have the joy of catching him someday! Catch and Release is the only way to go!

Here is a nice pre-spawning brown holding in some pocket water on the Green River. This day will forever go down in my fishing book as the coldest day of fishing EVER!

Here is a fish from the 201- season! A nice Brown on a nice day! You can count the sunny days on one hand this spring.

Save the Best 4 Last!

Here is another trip in July. Fishing started at 5:00 am. Streamers worked early! dries later in the afternoon.

Same trip as the photo above, but this wild cutty was fooled by a super trude! Nice fish hold! Now toss Him up!

Save the best 4 last! September float on the Green River! Monster Cutty caught on a monster streamer. Sometimes when your fishing partners get massive tangles and their line looks like birds nest--- it gives the rower a chance to fish! While, now you know the rest of the story.

23 inch cutty: sept. 8th, 2009 Green River

2009 Summer!

Travis-- on one of our many fishing trips last summer together holding a truly beautiful cutty. Caught on a big-nasty dry fly.

One of the my last guiding trips of the season last year I had a chance to cast the rod about 5 times in an instructional manner-- (next time I need to take the streamer off the line). BANG! a 22 inch rainbow slammed the streamer and made for a great photo! Next time it will be my client in the photo!

On one of my days off from guiding last summer I had a chance to float the new fork in August. The fishing was a little slower than normal, but this big cutty was fooled on a foamed out hopper.

This fish fell victim to the white death! If you come spend a day with me on the river, I will show you the money-fly we like to call white-death. It can be deadly on the right day! proof is in the photo! LOL

I had been guiding a NOLS week-long fishing trip and had not been able to fish all week. So after we loaded up the boats from a hard day rowing, Mavis and I re-floated the river, hoping to get some good streamer action as the sun went down. Here is one of the 3 monster browns caught that night. YuKKy BuGGY!

Here is Mavis holding one of the many big browns he caught while floating last summer. He is one of the best streamer rods I have ever fished with! You the man Mavis!

Here is my favorite fishing partner! We have had some of the best memories spending time together hunting and fishing. Here is one more for the books. Big Brown on a site casting sipper on the New Fork. (6-6-09) Superhero Dropper!

All-right! Who says that all in-laws are bad! My father-in-law with a monster early season brown. Big-POPPA-roger-DOG was killing the browns with streamers this day! This fish was a solid 20 inches but still skinny from the iced over winter.

Hard to beat some of the fishing we had last summer! Big Trout almost every trip!

2009 Fall Elk Hunting

This Big Bull was taken with a rifle during the early Elk hunting season near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Life does not get much better then eating fresh Elk steaks, while sitting near a campfire with life-long friends, watch the sun set on the Tetons and listening to elk bugle in the Timber. Man! That is living-- or at least one solid reason to work hard in life so that we can enjoy moments like this. This was my first 6 x 6 bull elk and it happened on the last day of my hunting season because I had to get back to school the next day to teach. I even bought an old truck to take hunting, but the fuel pump went out about 15 minutes before I was to leave for the trip! I wish I had a picture of the trip home with the elk quarters in the back seat of my 1998 Honda civic and the horns hanging out two windows, while I drove home through the hoback canyon listening to AC-DC! LOL! My hunting partners and I put a plan together to call this bull in to us in the morning (he had been bugling all night). The plan worked perfectly, and the bull came in to us quickly and quietly. I was stalking through the timber, trying to see if the bull has coming in or going away and to my surprise I soon saw white antler tips bouncing down the mountain from this bull coming to my buddies cow calls. 20 yards and two solid hits from the 300 mag--- (it is not even fair) the bull dropped in his tracks. Spending time with friends, in Wyoming's wide open spaces, away from the stress of life, and making memories is about has good as life gets! Thanks Travis and Darrell.