A Green River TR 4/25-4/29

[skifishbum]

After a 100 and sumthin days skiing it was good to trade sticks on the feet for the rowing sticks.
Headed up to the Green w/ my dad, fur kid and a soli patroler and his dad.
A 4:20 am ish depature had us in Dutch John around 9. We put in at the Flaming Gorge dam for an 8 mile float of the "A" section. There wasn't a lot of bugs on the water and most fish were caught nymphing deep with blood midges, wd40's, rs2s and scuds. A 2 to 3' dropper of the dry worked well in shallower flat areas and a few fish were willing to eat a cricket.
My pops w/ a nice brown

It was great to see my 1st boat refurbished and back on the water as was it to see Craig, who worked w/ me in the tuneshop all winter, catch his 1st trout on a fly.
Chris and Craig running Bridge rapid.

At Little hole we loaded up camping gear and floated a mile or so down to Cottonwood camp.
The next day a front came thru and while the near gale force wind made fishing and rowing challangeing fish were caught and it never really rained. I was anticipateing a decent blue wing olive hatch but the winds shut it down.
wind
Kessler says fkna lets get our float on

Floating out from Red Creek camp the next day was nice until finding the Browns Park road had eaten another bearing on my trailer. We managed to limp back to Dutch John and git it fixed.
My touring partner Topher was supposed to get off work early and meet me for another couple days camping.
Him getting off early didn't happen and a hippy in a beat up subbie profile stop by WYO HP relived him of some important fishing supplies .
They let him go with a ticket for court appearance and he made it into town finally .
A 3/4 moon made the midnight lauch and float down Cottonwood enjoyable. The river at night is quite a peaceful place.
After some late night partyin the next day was stellar.
starting w/ the breakfast of champions.

While not a hatch per say there were quite a few flying ants on the water and the fish were rising to dine.
Fish were caught

Dummies were retrived

Dummies tried to retrive fish


FKNA wearing this shirt added 10' to my cast.

I'm hoping for a pm gear FKNA polypro next season to add 10' to my hucks
Kessler was a kickass river dog and aside from some backseat woofing/driving and wanting to help land fish.

A shot of a couple of Whiteies

All in all another damn good river trip.
but like this wind jacked rig game over for now

I am gonna try and head back up 5/11-13th or 14th for an A B C float/camp
if anybodies interested.

[MakersTeleMark]

Excellent!

This is fknhilarious:

[Pow4Brains]

FKNA a great TR! Thanks for the stoke. I'd love to do a night float!

We floated A, B and C, and I gotta say I love the C section the most due to bigger (but fewer) fish and less crowds. If you can find them, no shit, take some lizard flies.......

[schwerty]

Just what I needed!!! Awesome TR!
I'll be floating the A,B and C in a few weeks. Can't wait.

[Andy_B]

Nice work.

[Lonnie]

A shot of a couple of Whiteies

KILL WHITIE!!!

[72Twenty]

You need to eat more bacon, you skinny bastard!

NICE TR!!!!!! Looks like you had a great time with your pops and friends; which is what it's all about, really. I've been busy the last few weekends and haven't gotten out much, but hope to this weekend - hopefully I will have some good stories to share as well!

[Dirty Hoar]

FKNA, very nice! Damn I love the river. I guess it's time to dust off the rod and get to it.

[Lumpy]

Any streamerin' at dark for browns?

[AsheanMT]

Primo bacon action!!

[skifishbum]

Any streamerin' at dark for browns?

The winds in the evening were pretty strong did get out early a couple mornings. The browns were eager to eat a stoner (red eye) sculpin until the sun hit the water. Threw the jig (tube and maribou) with decent sucess the day the front came through and it was cloudy.
Am headed up to Stawberry Fri morning then on to the LC Ranch, outside Vernal, for some hog farm action and then up to the Green Sat. night till probably Weds. Rumor has it they are gonna jack the flows 4 or 5000 cfs. early (pre Mermorial day) this year. I can't imagine there is enough water to
run those flows for very long. 7220 the skinny guys my ski touring partner and the guys a cook go figure. It's not that big of deal to have a chef as a touring partner as there are only so many ways to jetboil ramen, but it sure was sweet to have somebody whippen up kick as meals on the river. We should try and hook up a maggot fishin summit this summer. Name the river and I'll try like hell to be there. Perferably one with riverside camping. One other note shuttle prices have been jacked $110 for a B shuttle. Not sure what a dam to Swallow canyon is but almost worth it to go up a day early and do your own shuttles.

[Lumpy]

i like the idea of a maggot fish summit...room for two in the Clacka! Any thoughts on the uper green above flaming G?

[schwerty]

Bump for an awesome TR and only 2 short months until BWO time!

[72Twenty]

I'll be on the N. Platte up way of Casper sometime between March 19th and March 24th. A little Wind River and/or Sweetwater action might be mixed into that trip as well. Stoked.

[schwerty]

I'll be on the N. Platte up way of Casper sometime between March 19th and March 24th. A little Wind River and/or Sweetwater action might be mixed into that trip as well. Stoked.

The Sweetwater should be $ then! Tough access though.

[72Twenty]

The Sweetwater should be $ then! Tough access though.

We usually head down to South Pass, then off some dirt roads out into the middle of nowhere - my dad always knows which turns to take.

[skibuminwyo]

The key to everything in wyoming

[schwerty]

We usually head down to South Pass, then off some dirt roads out into the middle of nowhere - my dad always knows which turns to take.

Knowing which roads to take in that area is key! If you take the wrong road it usually dead ends with a jackass and a shotgun pointed at you!

[72Twenty]

Heh - last night I was trying to trace our usual routes on Google Earth, and I was even getting lost there! All the roads look the same.