Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Gros Ventre Last Day


Tuesday August 18, 2015   Day 21    Grand Teton N.P., Gros Ventre Campground, site 69 last day

Woke up to a 41o trailer and a 37o outside temperature.  We don’t leave the furnace on during the night because we have such a cozy bed with our two Pendleton wool blankets.  It’s when you get up, that’s cold.  And the furnace thermostat isn’t remote control, so some brave soul has to get out of bed, turn on the furnace, start the coffee, and crawl back into bed.  By the time the furnace gets us up to 60, the coffee is nearly ready.  We didn’t bother sitting out this morning. 
Fished the Gros Ventre River today with my one day WY license I purchased yesterday to fish the Snake.  I fished it in the same spot I fished on our first day here.  But I went up river quite a way this time.  Still had no luck.  Had one on for about 10 seconds, but he got off.  This river does not fish like others.  You usually see fish rising now and then and you can target them.  If they aren’t rising to surface food, then you can usually have some success resorting to nymphs.  But this river doesn’t play by those rules.  Walking back downstream, I ran into another angler going up and we chatted a little.  This was his first time on this river and he made similar observations.  It doesn’t seem like that river holds many fish.  However, he had caught two by the time I met him.  As always, any time spent fly fishing for trout is always a good time.
Had two great leftovers for supper to use them up.  Marsha’s chili and grilled salmon with yogurt dill sauce.  The dill sauce was for the salmon, not the chili.  And we didn’t mix the salmon in the chili.  They were separate entrees. 
We got all packed up for our travels tomorrow to the Flathead National Forest, where we are trying to get closer to Glacier National Park.  We have over 400 miles to travel tomorrow, one of our longer days, so we will leave early.

 Sorry, no pictures today.

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