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Lookin' kinda like Soda Butte....
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just back from the park and heading out to Billings for dinner and hotel tonight.
the drive from Red Lodge to Yellowstone was as spectacular as advertised....really breathtaking. The park was nice...saw a bunch of bison and mule deer. Did not see any bears or sign.
lots of aggressive small fish on Slough Creek....no other fishermen where we were, which surprised me, although there were lots lower down.
Will download some pics tonight if I have the energy. Hate to go back to NO....they had flash floods today and will be stinking hot tomorrow.
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lots of aggressive small fish on Slough Creek....no other fishermen where we were, which surprised me, although there were lots lower down.. My favorite creek in the park. Love the sections above and below the upper parking lot.
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Good to hear about lots of aggressive small fish, hopefully the population dynamic is getting updated, it used to be sight hunting for a very few select big fish...
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I generally like to go to Montana for trout fishing after memorial day. Nobody around for the most part, off season prices. Being the cheap bastard that I am. Its like fish one week and get the next week free kind of thing. Looks like you have a blast never the less Steve!
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I missed Steve by a day, but took a photo anyway. ![[Linked Image]](http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k231/maynard93/Steve_zpse3847a3e.jpg) Denny and Steve. do I look fat?
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lots of aggressive small fish on Slough Creek....no other fishermen where we were, which surprised me, although there were lots lower down.. My favorite creek in the park. Love the sections above and below the upper parking lot. that's where we were...worked upstream from the campground a half mile or so. we only had two hours to fish it because we got a late start out of Red Lodge, stopped a bunch to take pictures, and then hit a construction stop on the road for 45 minutes. the place is so pretty I would have kept fishing till dark if we hadn't needed to get back to Billings. I thought it was kind of weird that they make you kill everything but cutthroats, regardless of size.....we gave ours to campers so they didn't get wasted. The first bunch we ran into were from Louisiana....a hippie couple who live a few blocks from me and the girl's mama from Grand Isle. Small world. Sitting in the Billings airport at 0500 typing this waiting on flight to Denver.
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Glad you had a good trip Steve! Next it'll be Pugs and Rocky's turn!
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 OK, I've kept my trap shut long enuff!! Steve, you TURBOSUCK!!!! So there!!!
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Glad you had a good trip Steve!
Was down in that part of MT/WY on the 4th of July and enjoyed it too. I never get tired of being in this part of the world.
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Glad you had a good trip, Steve. The memories last forever. I have enjoyed that country again vicariously through you. Thanks!
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Looks like a fine trip, I'm envious  And I have to think that town had very little crime, when they had a marshall named Jeremiah "liver eatin'" Johnson we leave the keys in the truck and don't lock the doors the usual suspects are conspicuous by their absence WHAT??? Are you saying that you don't leave keys in the car and doors unlocked in New Orleans?
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WHAT??? Are you saying that you don't leave keys in the car and doors unlocked in New Orleans?
not hardly
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Lookin' kinda like Soda Butte.... It is White Dome Geyser.
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All good things must come to an end...and that trip looked pretty good...
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Hope you had a great time and left a fish or two for us locals. Saw where 2 people drowned in the Stillwater River today in separate incidents. Sad and unusual.
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Woo-hooo.....leaving for Montana
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neither of the guys I was with knew that song when I sang a chorus up there.....I guess I was the only one who listened to Zappa in college
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Zappa as in Frank Zappa? If so, SteveNO that dates you back a long time.
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