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@albatross at Harriman SP
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5footfenwick said:
Nice! Did you get your 10 yet?
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No. That one was around 8 inches, the largest I’ve gotten from that stream by far. If I’m going to do it this year it’s probably going to be during the next week or so when the water is high, I was seeing big fish everywhere it’s like they just appear out of thin air when the flows are up. I probably need to devote more time to larger water or stream sections further downstream from where I usually fish, but it’s hard when the fishing is so good in the headwaters
 
Same place, different season. A side channel in the river that so many people pass by without seeing in their hurry to get gosh-knows-where.

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This is Emigrant Peak, and a side channel of the Yellowstone River at Emigrant, MT. Thousands of tourists pass by here every day in the summer on their way to Yellowstone Park without stopping or taking in the view. I’m sure some of you have driven across the bridge below on your way to Chico Hot Springs or to the new Sage Lodge a short way farther up the river.
 
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This was from Thursday. We had a dozen different close deer encounters. Pup was locked in on this one. I have a few on the computer at home that I can add this evening


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mt_flyfisher said:
This is Emigrant Peak, and a side channel of the Yellowstone River at Emigrant, MT. Thousands of tourists pass by here every day in the summer on their way to Yellowstone Park without stopping or taking in the view. I’m sure some of you have driven across the bridge below on your way to Chico Hot Springs or to the new Sage Lodge a short way farther up the river.
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I was at Point of Rocks more than a few years ago now, and the salmonflies were on. A few of us were scrambling up and down the rocks upstream of the access and trying to raise cutts up against the bank. I was sitting up top watching my buddy cast and a pterodactyl-sized stonefly crawled into my sneaker. It felt gross but I calmly removed my shoe so as to not smash the bug, and when I set said shoe down, it rolled down the rocks into the river. My buddy claims to this day that he tried to cast and hook my shoe but I firmly believe he was still working a good fish that had rolled on a natural a few minutes earlier. You can't blame him. Anyway, all that to say...my shoe possibly floated down this side channel and it most assuredly saw Emigrant Peak.
 
turkey said:
I was at Point of Rocks more than a few years ago now, and the salmonflies were on. A few of us were scrambling up and down the rocks upstream of the access and trying to raise cutts up against the bank. I was sitting up top watching my buddy cast and a pterodactyl-sized stonefly crawled into my sneaker. It felt gross but I calmly removed my shoe so as to not smash the bug, and when I set said shoe down, it rolled down the rocks into the river. My buddy claims to this day that he tried to cast and hook my shoe but I firmly believe he was still working a good fish that had rolled on a natural a few minutes earlier. You can't blame him. Anyway, all that to say...my shoe possibly floated down this side channel and it most assuredly saw Emigrant Peak.
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That is a very good place to fish. And also a good place to watch and keep your eyes open, not only for salmon flies, but also for the resident wildlife.

My friend and I often did an evening river float and Point of Rocks was our favorite take out spot. We ordinarily had the river all to ourselves in the evening and were the last boat off the river near dark. Elk and antelope were abundant in that area and that’s one of the best places in the valley to see bighorn sheep. From time to time we’d see a black bear, and one evening my friend chased one trying to get its picture as it scrambled up the hillside. (I previously thought he was smarter than that.)

However, our primary focus there was the fishing. Then, in Octobr 2015, a woman was attacked by a grizzly near the Point of Rocks fishing access site. The woman was walking her dog along the river when she surprised the bear on a gravel bar, and the bear bit her on the head. Lucky for her, her dog reportedly barked at, and scared the bear away.

After that episode I made sure my friend could bark like a dog, and I carried bear spray in my boat.😃
 
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