This backpacking trip was a 9 mile trek from the truck to our base camp. We entered the wilderness Friday at 1pm. Besides Scout, Gordon (79 1/2) and Chad joined us. We were fortunate to have cool cloudy weather on the way in to this area. We hiked for 2 Read more…
We headed up to Dubois to go fly-fishing for big cutthroats. We took Gordon and Scout with us this trip. We got to the lake on Wednesday evening, in time to fish for a couple hours before dark. Erik got into several good fish when he first got into the Read more…
We wanted to get our folks out for a morning of fishing so Gordon and Mary joined us at 6:00 a.m. for the drive to Pathfinder. WOW are these fish growing fast! We landed several fish over 20″ with all being over 17″ and very fat. We fished again around Read more…
DAY 1: We are fishing this year with our good friends Randy and Dawn Larson, along with 3 of their kids (Josh, Jeremiah and Chance). We left Casper Saturday morning and arrived at Jan around Noon Sunday, May 30th. What a cold day!!! About an hour from our destination we Read more…
We made plans with the Larsons to take a trip to Fish Lake together. After Church Sunday the 28th, we loaded our final items in the camper and drove to PV to pick them up. By 2:00 we were on the road to Dubois. We made it to our camp Read more…
4 am is early! We picked Erik’s dad Gordon up at 4:30 and left Casper, bound for the Middle Fork of the Powder River near Kaycee. We arrived at our destination just in time for the sun to be high enough to keep us warm in the deep canyon. The Read more…
We left at around 4:30pm and headed for Boysen. It was calm and 60º in Casper when we left. When we arrived at the boat ramp there was a cool, stiff North wind, so we decided not to put the boat in until morning. Erik took his fly rod and Read more…
We made it to the lake by 7:30pm last night and fished until the sun dipped and it started cooling off. We didn’t catch any fish, but did have a peaceful evening shattered by “nothing compares” blaring from a truck stereo and hacking and cussing from a local who was Read more…