Guys I need your help.

I love to fly fish for trout.

I love to land off airport.

Where can I do both, either by landing gravel bars in the river, or landing alongside the river?

And would I be taking the 185 or the SQ-2 to access the area?

Thanks immensely!

Alaska!

Haha, sorry, that's the only place I've ever fly-fished. I'm excited to see some lower-48 locations though!

Hey Stormer I was the guy fishing last summer in Idaho at I believe we were at sulfur creek. Try Shaefer Meadow in MT much better fishing than the day we met. Gardiner MT has a strip right next to the Yellowstone. I live in Billings and land a field next to the Bighorn but cant get you permission. There is a strip at Fort Smith that you can camp and walk to one of the best streams in the US. West Fork Lodge is a great place to fish. Meadow Creek and Big Bear in MT. You know there used to be trout below Possum Kingdom dam there in Texas small but stupid. The Yellowstone has plenty of gravel bars if you want to ding up that pretty 185. The runoff is going to be big and prolonged out west here so wait till summers end

Coyote,
I am familiar with all the places you mentioned in Montana except Big Bear. Where is that? Are you perhaps thinking of Spotted Bear?

There are more places for fishing than fishermen in Idaho. In over three decades of plying the waters in the Frank Church, I could count the number of flyers Ive met more than a mile or two from the airstrip on one hand. That means two things: the fishing near the strips is often incredible, and the rest of us don't really talk about the rest of the places that make the close spots look like a waste of time.

There are numerous places along Big Creek near the strips that will let you catch the limit (25) of whitefish every day by noon, have them smoked by evening, and still give you plenty of time to chase dollies or cuts or go watch the salmon spawn before the sun goes down. A snorkel and mask is a big help and a lot of fun for it. Waders are nice too...not for wading at all, really, but instead for the diamondbacks. I have had pairs of marks left several times crawling through the rocky brush. It can be hard to hear them over the water noise.

Mussel beds are all over too and, while aweful and rubbery if cooked alone, go well brined and smoked with the whitefish with the alder and mohogany that grows thick all over. The black bears tend to love visiting the smoke pit...I always make mine a quarter mile away from camp at least. Don't ask me how I know...

Spotted Bear is it. Brain dont work the way it use to

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Coyote, I remember our meeting.

Thanks for the tips, that's exactly what I'm looking for. Sounds like good places to take the SQ-2. Maybe July or September.

lesuther wrote:There are more places for fishing than fishermen in Idaho. In over three decades of plying the waters in the Frank Church, I could count the number of flyers Ive met more than a mile or two from the airstrip on one hand. That means two things: the fishing near the strips is often incredible, and the rest of us don't really talk about the rest of the places that make the close spots look like a waste of time.

There are numerous places along Big Creek near the strips that will let you catch the limit (25) of whitefish every day by noon, have them smoked by evening, and still give you plenty of time to chase dollies or cuts or go watch the salmon spawn before the sun goes down. A snorkel and mask is a big help and a lot of fun for it. Waders are nice too...not for wading at all, really, but instead for the diamondbacks. I have had pairs of marks left several times crawling through the rocky brush. It can be hard to hear them over the water noise.

Mussel beds are all over too and, while aweful and rubbery if cooked alone, go well brined and smoked with the whitefish with the alder and mohogany that grows thick all over. The black bears tend to love visiting the smoke pit...I always make mine a quarter mile away from camp at least. Don't ask me how I know...

Wow, you really need to take me fishing! I've never had that much luck (or been that good)...