Because the Yellowstone Caldera is active and alive, the river will move over time, This will happen more and more water rises and changes. " Yellowstone Supervolcano "
Agreed! You know more about this subject than me. We live on the bank of an ancient river bed where the river is now ½ a mile away. Thankfully not near anything recently volcanic.
@@RemoteFlyFishing Only know from the documentary about it, One of the biggest and deadliest on earth. If it goes active, Not even I will have a fun time here in Sweden. We got a few thousand years left :p
Update! Those Buffalo are FAST!! At Firmilab, they also a heard of fenced in Buffalo 🦬, and on the fence is a sign which reads, “If you run across this field, you had better be able to do it in 9.9 seconds, because the bull can do it in TEN”! 😇
That's funny. Some friends and I were partying at a local dairy farm, when we were young and stupid, when one guy climbs over a fence to take a shortcut. Ah, not a good idea, that's where they keep the bull.
Love your videos!! I am however curious about the fact that though you cast with your right hand, all your fly reels seem to be set up for right hand retrieve as well. Isn’t that more difficult when landing the fish? Just wondering was all. 😇
Thanks! You’re the second person to ask this in literally the past month. I had to think about it. My first fly reels were left hand retrieve. It felt uncoordinated to reel with my left hand. I’m right handed. That’s the only reason I can think of.
Okay, I think I better understand you now. I’m also right handed, but unconventionally when shooting pocket billiards I hold the thick end of the pool cue with my left hand (like a lefty because that’s what seems comfortable for me). And because I’m not playing on the pro circuit or moonlighting as a pool hustler, I doubt anyone notices this shortcoming of mine. But if like myself you cast with your right hand (and just think of your fly reel as something which simply “holds your line” as you strip the line in with you’d left and worry about getting it back on the reel after landing the fish), I think you’ll find this can save you a lot of time (and hassle). 😇
We were thinking the same thing, but then a car drove by and stopped. They told us the bull bison had been hanging out all week. So don't approach and respect the distance.
Probably waiting for a handout and we were the only car for miles. I don't feed wild animals and will take my wife's bird feeders in at night as it's not safe to walk out to the barn at night with bears around. Now my wife is feeding this big male turkey that follows her around like a pet. I keep telling her that turkeys are dangerous, and come to thinkg about it, to stop sweet talking to moose.
@@RemoteFlyFishing It´s better not to feed you´re right. We have ravens here that throw nuts on the streets waiting for cars to crack them and we have a sparrowhawk you won´t believe... he flys threw our bird feeder and catches other birds... so much for theorie! ;) Such an unbelievable nature environment over the atlantic!!
I will, always, remember the time Tim Sterling, and I were fly fishing the Yellowstone River, while wading. Never saw one fish on the surface, but we used nymphs, and caught 200 cutthroats in 4 hours... all 14" to 16". Most of the time we had doubles in the same hole. Too much fun.
Fished the Meadows section in 2021. Decent, but fishing along or close to the roads is tough. Nothing like the backcountry.. Lots of dumb 18-20 inchers back there and some absolute giants in the bigger lakes. Loved the video!
Thanks! I don't like fishing alone in Grizzly Bear country. When I’m fishing I get so focused I don’t notice things around me. A woman took a picture of my brother and me fly fishing with a moose in between us. We never even saw it. I wish we had asked for a copy…..
Yep, things are getting crowded. I thought I read somewhere that some sites are reserved for people biking into the park. It would make sense, but I couldn't find the reference.
Why is everyone so dam insistent on seeing dangerous animals up close.😮😮 Wtf are you thinking. God made man in his image lol I guess that's not the case or god himself would be lunch to a pack of timber wolves ..nature has instilled in us a fight or flight response the whole idea is not to have to be in that situation .. why people want to be disturbing dangerous wildlife is beyond me .. oh look it pooped yeah and what it eats and digests could be you.. and shame on the natl park system for exploiting these majestic creatures for money .. go pet a hippo lol
I was driving thru the Lamar valley when I saw this wolf running along side the river, a couple of hundred yards away. I pulled my car over and attached the zoom lens to cature some video, but by the time I got the camera into focus the wolf had vanished. While I was filming this guy suddenly stands up in the bushes, right down where the wolf had been. I thought about publishinhg this to RU-vid. Had I just filmed a Changling.....?
Good question....I think it's just preference. The other day I was casting with some of my older reels and I was surprised to see that they were all left hand retrieve. So at some point I switched ...
Have been fishing those ponds for 35 to 40 years, try to get there at least once a year. Camped at the site near Upper Pond many times including with my kids when they were young, many years ago. Thanks for the video, sure brings back memories.
Thank you! Yes, you can learn fly fishing in a month, and if you hire a guide or fish with an experienced friend they can teach you the basics and get you going on your first day. Over time you’ll get better. You’ll never stop learning. And now for the bad news. The thermal activity at Yellowstone in August heats up the rivers that are easy to access and the trout either head up these little streams or head back into the depths of lakes where the water is cooler. Catching trout when water temperatures climb over 65-68 degrees Fahrenheit (18-20 degrees Celsius) is harmful to trout as the struggle to land them is too stressful for the trout. There are some higher altitude mountain streams and ponds in Yellowstone where the water remains cooler in late summer, but now you’re hiking into bear country, which you definitely don’t want to do alone. Your best source for fishing advice will be with the park’s services. Have fun and get up early to avoid the August crowds and get parking spaces at the popular sites!
I’m surprised they let us in the night before as the flooding was pretty bad, but I guess at that point the roads at the north gate and northeast gate hadn’t washed out and collapsed. It was weird driving around and not seeing many, if any, cars. And without cell phone service (except at some of the lodges) we had no idea that most of the park had already been evacuated. We were told to return to Madison Campground and pack up - and it was pretty clear that most people had already left. Where did you finally end up evacuating from (gate) , and where were you staying? Were you up in Mammoth?
I’ve heard that volcanoes are major contributors to air pollution, I’m not sure about geysers. But it’s not just old faithful spitting out steam and Sulphur like smells, the whole park is loaded with them. When fishing along the banks of the Firehole river you’ll come across warning signs, where the last thing you want to do is step onto a crusty surface and have it collapse on you. They're all over the place.
Wonderful video. Some things I’ve noticed when you were casting in that pond you’re rod tip was a little bit too high just pointing it out. And if you ever decide to go again, I will make you some Gartside hoppers that will blow your mind. Mind you give me a months notice before you decide to go because it’s gonna take me some time to tie those up.
Thank you Scott! You’re dam right my tip was high. I was standing on this beaver dam and my first cast snagged and got tangled up in these gnarly bushes covering the outlet stream behind me. Plus the rod I was using was a 7 footer (or maybe smaller - I would have to check). I don’t remember every time I snag something, but I remember that snag. I love using hoppers to investigate if there are trout in a pool or stream. It’s like the old saying, “when in doubt, woolly bugger them out”, except more fun as the action is on the surface. That said I tie most of my own flies, but had not heard of Gartside hopper. I had to look it up. It’s a real beauty! Just looking at it you know it’s going to catch trout. I don’t have a pheasant skin, so I welcome your offer to tie one up for me and will give you a call out and send you a the link for the video where I fish it….and take all the time you need as hopper season is still several months off. I can be reached at sjchiggins@gmail.com if your offer is still good. Best, Steve
Hoping to get into flu fishing this year. Great video. Now to binge watch the rest of yours looks like they are a couple of years old. Thanks for uploading them.
Thanks, gland to hear you enjoyed it. I spend some time out west in 2021 and 2022 and relesed a few videos. Last year I spend more time visiting some of my favorite spots in New Hampshire, but only released two of the fishing trips, as I was disappointed with what I was catching, and then where I was catching trout. This spring I'm planning to revisit some of those areas, as well as favorite rivers of mine in Vermont and upstate New York. So stay tuned, and good luck taking up Fly fishing! Enjoy, Steve
I fished in yellowstone in 2003 with dickerson taper bamboo rod Built by the late Ron Bennett of Pittsburgh Pa. I caught lots of nice bows and cuts on that 7' 6" 5wt on all the rivers that I fished.
I know, I appologize for that. I did the best I could editing the audio to compensate for background noise. But here's the real shame - I actually have, and had with me, a set of Rode Wireless microphones, and didn't think to break them out. I was kicking myself as I ended up cutting out a lot of dialog .....
Yeah so….no it’s not. Roughly every 200 years for the past several thousand years California gets MASSIVE flooding. In like 1860 something the governor of California was sworn in in a row boat in Sacramento because the flooding was so bad. This is common in California it just happens on large cycles that span roughly 200 years.
California did get a lot of rain (these past couple of years?). I've been to and stayed in Sacramento - I like your story about the governor being sworn-in in a row boat. In Boston, we had Mayor Curley, who was first elected to Boston's board of aldermen in 1904 and was sworn in while in prison on a fraud conviction - prior to becoming mayor in 1914.
Everyone should see Yellowstone at least once in your life, but, It sucks in many ways. Too many people, too many rules and nasty park rangers that run around giving guests a hard time and tickets for anything they can. Also the hours long traffic jams that you will sit in instead of fishing. I will never go back to Yellowstone and there are many world class trout rivers all over this region that offer a much better experience.
I agree regarding the crowds, way too many people, and they're building several new lodges in Canyon Village. The trick is to get up early and head to the streams - families can't get organized early in the morning, so the there is plenty of parking. later in the day I head back to my campsite and just walk to catch the evening hatch. I'm not a fan of crowds. I recall one year I had to wait for a car to leave the parking lot at Canyon Village as they have a supermarket there, the only one in Yellowstone I'm aware of, and then the lines were so long inside the supermarket I just gave up and drove back to Madison campground. I ended up heading out of the park to fish the Madison and bought food stuff to cook in West Yellowstone. Isn't that strange, I stayed in Yellowstone and drove out of the park for the day only to return late at night, oppositie of the traffic coming in durning the morning.
I will always remember the time Ray Mirande and I were fly fishing Yellowstone Lake in our float tubes. The size limit for cutthroat was under 18". In two days, we caught and released 127 fish. Not one was a keeper - they were all over 18"
Trophy Stretch is such a fun place to fish!! Went there last summer during the flooding, me and a friend basically had the place to ourselves! :) Fish ID, Longnose Sucker, Rainbow Trout, Brook Trout, Atlantic Salmon (there might be some white suckers in there too, some of them got a bit of a shorter nose/lighter coloring). Thanks for another great video, if I ever see you out there I'll ask for an autograph haha :D
Fish IDs - You nailed it!!!!! The one fish I wasn't positive about was the Longnose Sucker, but it was the size of the scales that lead to my conclusion -- there sure were a lot of them. I saw videos of the flooding that occured a week or so after we fished the river. I've never seen the river that high. I can't even imagine fishing it with the water running that high. No wonder you had the river to yourselves, the water must have been in the trees.
Over the past couple of years the average has been 3,500/yr brookies and rainbows. They stock Lake Francis with Landlocked Salmon - and those fish do swim up river. But it amazing me how fast the rainbows and brookies disappear a couple of weeks after each stocking. We got lucky this time as they had stocked the river a couple of days prior. Later that afternoon we went down to the logging bridge, and even though it was pouring rain the place was a zoo. And yet if you walk downstream 100 ft you have the river to yourself....
@@RemoteFlyFishing The trophy stretch alone received 6,090 fish in 2022 from the state. Plus the local club purchases several loads of breeders to be stocked as well during the season. When it’s all said and done it’s about 3k per mile
@@bradhardy2777 Brad, I can see where you are getting your information from the 2022 stocking report as it includes stocking of 2,500 Landlocked Salmon, but they didn't stock salmon in 2023 0r 2021. Take a look at the stocking cards on the interactive stocking report. Stocking salmon in 2022 isn't something they do every year. And 6,000 isn't 10K. Name: CONNECTICUT RIVER, MIDDLE Town: PITTSBURG Miles stocked: 2.81 Eastern Brook Trout Target for this year: 600 Fish per mile: 213 # stocked last year: 590 Brown Trout Target for this year: 0 Fish per mile: 0 # stocked last year: 0 Rainbow Trout Target for this year: 3,000 Fish per mile: 1,067 # stocked last year: 3,000
That stocking of LLS in 2022 - would be interesting to see the stocking cards for them. I'm wondering if this might have been a "seeding" of small LLS. something like how they stock little brook trout by the thousands from choppers in remote trout ponds.
Thanks! You figured it out. I need to provide an introduction to my channel as I started posting these videos for a friend of mine who, due to illness, could no longer join me on fishing trips. So one day I got this idea from watching these hiking videos on RU-vid and created my first 5 videos for him to join me as I hiked to fish these remote ponds in the White Mountains. He loved them. Sadly he passed away a few years ago. I kept up the theme as other people felt like they too were on the trip. On the downside, sometimes after hiking up to these ponds to catch fish results in getting skunked, which some folks don't like - they want to see big fish, and lots of them, being caught. Unfortunately that's not the way it always works out. Or they say, you need to hire a giude, which I have done, and you do catch fish - but it takes the fun out of the challenge.
@@RemoteFlyFishing Very thoughtful of you to do this for your late fishing buddy. I’m sure he appreciated the effort and the videos were of comfort to him as he went to fish rivers where the hatches are never-ending and the trout are abundant. Good on you. It’s hard to let a friend go. Even harder to replace them. Peace to you as you continue on your adventures. May the sunshine always be at your back!
63 degree water even in the morning seems way too warm to be fishing. The trout are stressed enough. My angle is best to leave them alone until maybe some rain cools the water off.
Sean, my cut-off for fishing trout safely is 65 degrees, which is why I check water temperature. Check out my second video fishing the Firehole river where I actually left the river and explained my reasons when water temperature exceeded 65 degrees. That said, if you you do an online search on "Trout water temperature safety" you will find the the average "stop fishing" recommendation is 67 to 68 degrees.
I found some interesting camping spots at Upper Pond worth checking out. And I really think Upper pond needs to be better explored. I never did publish Part 3 as it consisted of some drone shots and became concerned over the right to show these as this area is part of the White Mountains where it may not be legal to fly drones ....bottom line, the area has a lot of potential and a lot more areas to explore.
I went up there in '73 with my dad and we had a blast in our rubber raft. Caught dozens of brookies...most put back. Thanks for the video :) It's quite a hike ... not so far, but steep.
It is steep. I recall having to use a knee in one area to take my next step. hiking in the Northeast is very differnet than out west. No switch backs - just rocks and straight up.
Thanks Brian, I am editing one on Profile Lake in Franconia Notch and hope to release it soon --- followed by filming from last weekend up in Pittsburg on trophy section of the Conn. River
