Greater Yellowstone Area > Anyone fished the Gibbon by the old road?

Anyone fished the Gibbon by the old road?

Submitted by Rachel on Thu, 2012-08-30 07:12
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I haven't had a chance to fish the Gibbon along the old road bed since they moved the road. The water always looked great, but I was always afraid I'd hook a motorcyclist on my backcast.

Has anyone gotten in there and explored? How's it fishing?

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Tom said on Thursday, August 30th, 2012

I've been back in there a few times. All that great water you saw from the road is still there, and you'll generally have it all to yourself. The fish don't get huge like they do in the meadow stretches, but they seem happy to crush almost any dry fly you toss at them.

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Brennan said on Thursday, August 30th, 2012

Don’t listen to Tom, there aren’t any trout back there — just whitefish. It’s also full of grizzly bears, rattlesnakes and mountain lions.

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Rachel said on Thursday, August 30th, 2012

In my experience the more “bears, rattlesnakes and mountain lions” the locals tell you about, the better the fishing.

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Brennan said on Thursday, August 30th, 2012

Alright, alright, maybe there aren’t a ton of bears, but I’m sticking to my guns about there not being a ton of trout either.

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chris_hunt said on Wednesday, September 12th, 2012

Don't forget that super-toxic strain of poison ivy native only to the lower Gibbon... stuff sticks with you forever, or, as Eddie Murphy says, "You keep that sh*t forever ... like luggage."

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rebecca said on Thursday, September 6th, 2012

testing how comments are displaying

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