Category: Fishing
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The Savage River
Thursday, June 20, 2019 Unlike our four-month expedition in 2013, the sun was shining. We drove through beautiful country, north on I81, west on 33, then north on 220. We have driven 220 on many sections and is one gorgeous road. We reached our destination, Bumblebee RV Park just outside Accident, Maryland. The new owner,…
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Middle Fork Salmon River, Sunday
Sunday, July 22, 2018 Sipping coffee, I watched these amazing kids carry their heavy bags, sleeping bags, day bags and water bottles to the boats. By now everyone had the routine down. Too bad it’s the last day with two of the biggest rapids. Ron got into the boat with Ty. It was the only…
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Middle Fork Salmon River, Saturday
Saturday, July 21, 2018 Trying to define the way Cartwheel Bob came down the mountain last night, Steve asked Sarah and Llydia to demonstrate handstands and cartwheels. The crowd voted it was more cartwheel. I got in the boat with Steven with Brian in the front fishing. Many had said their favorite day was the…
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Middle Fork Salmon River, Friday
Friday, July 20, 2018 What fun it was to paddle kayaks in the morning with Llydia and Sarah. Although most of the rapids weren’t bad, we had a couple of challenging ones. They both hit a rock in one and I think came out of the boats. By the time I got past and looked…
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Middle Fork of the Salmon River with Steve Zettel
Monday, July 16, 2018 Monday July 16, 2018 Visiting Ron Lowry last summer in Boise, he said, “You MUST float the Middle Fork with us next summer.” I had seen his pictures from previous years, and he has been going for 14 years, so it must be good. He goes with Steve Zettel and Idaho…
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Fishing The Bitterroot River with David Hufman
September 9, 2017 We drove 30 minutes to the Grizzly Hackle Fly Shop in Missoula to meet our guide at 7:00. We met David Hufman and did all the paperwork in the shop and put our rods in his Toyota truck. We drove south about 45 minutes to the Bitterroot River. We thought we were…
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Spotted Bear River
Monday, September 4, 2017 We realized somewhere driving in yesterday that we had not bought fishing licenses, and it was a long, rough drive back to town. Besides, the fly shop would be closed for Labor Day weekend. Well, we would just have to show them our lifetime fishing licenses from Virginia and the yearly…
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Fernie to Hungry Horse Reservoir
September 3, 2017 We got off to a leisurely start. Taking the trash and garbage to the disposal area, we found a man sorting recycling into different bags. Kelly struck up a conversation with this lean gentleman, probably in his 60’s named Holmes. He is an retired engineer, who had to go back to work…
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Fishing The Elk River
September 2, 2017 Fernie RV Resort is in a perfect location. It sits next to the Elk River, but is only a block or two from a shopping center. We decided to fish the Elk today, although we don’t have a boat and don’t really know where to fish it. We drove down to the…
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Skookumchuck Creek Day 2
August 29, 2017 Driving 45 K up a very dusty gravel road, we stopped above where Buhl Creek comes into the Skook. It is truly a creek there, but still bigger than many of the trout streams we are used to fishing in Virginia. Kelly got out to check out the stream at the bridge.…