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Finance Real Estate Rainbow Trout, Dental Floss, and Red Lodge Real Estate.
| Rainbow Trout, Dental Floss, and Red Lodge Real Estate. |
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| Written by Johnny Tightlines |
| Saturday, 28 March 2009 11:14 |
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The first time I hooked up with a really large fish on the Bighorn I was chest high in my waders bobbing down stream after him trying to keep up before he blew past my backing. This was in the early 1990's and the river had just re-opened after years of closure by the Crow Indians and the fishing was absolutely nuts. Back then it was our secret, today it is everybody's secret. So, you ask, where are some of the other great places that aren't as well discovered? Here are a few in south central Montana near Red Lodge, Montana, one of the best Montana real estate secrets left. In fact it is one of the very best mountain real estate and vacation properties left anywhere in the country. Of course, these are all very good secrets, but some of these secrets I'm just going to have to keep to myself. Consider this a test taste of some of the fine trout fishing locations in central Montana and north central Wyoming. There are many more, but that would require a book, stories and more detail. Now, I can't give you all of my fishing secrets for Montana and Wyoming's eastern Rocky Mountain or I'd have to kill you - just kidding, but here is a small compilation of some of my favorite streams and high mountain lakes in the Red Lodge, Montana area. Just a short walk from anywhere in downtown is Rock Creek which is a free stone stream feed by the waters of the high Beartooth Plateau. The fish are eager and don't get much pressure and as you move down stream they get bigger and bigger. Heading west on highway 78 about 20 minutes by car you will drop into the East Rosebud valley. Just 4 miles south of Roscoe you go over East Rosebud Creek. It is another free stone stream and you can wade up or down and fish all the standard stuff - caddis drys, nymphs, and the "little, bad, black" cone head streamer for a cloudy day If you are in really good shape and want to catch some huge lake bound cutthroat then you can hot foot hike out of East Rosebud Canyon up to a lake known as Arch Lake. Of all of the dozens of lakes in the million acre Absaroka-Beartooth wilderness this is perhaps the finest and with the largest average size of trout. Of course this is a 2,500 vertical foot hike straight up out of the East Rosebud valley so it is not for the faint of heart and you are scrambling on large boulders and scree fields a lot. A bit further west and north you arrive at the Stillwater. This is yet another free stone river but with much greater volume. The fishing in this river is outstanding in the second half of July and the remainder of the summer and fall. Bust out your best hopper pattern or an ant, better yet a hopper with an ant dropper. The big western streams see more traffic in a day then this river gets in a week. For another great high mountain lake head south out of Red Lodge on Highway 212 and turn right up the Glacier Lake Road, near the base of the Beartooth Pass. After about 7 miles of slow going dirt road you will arrive at the base of the Glacier Lake trail head. The trail is a two mile grunt up to 9,000-plus feet out of the parking lot. There are some very large cutthroats, especially along the cliffs on the western shore. You'll need a sink tip line to fish with flies or a weighted line with a bunch of worms on a treble to go after the big one down deep. Just get it down deep and reel it back slow. The legendary Bighorn is only about 90 minutes from downtown Red Lodge which makes some of the best tailwater fishing in all of Montana really accessible as a day trip, which is pretty cool. The Bighorn River is only about 90 minutes away from Red Lodge across the Crow Indian reservation from Pryor, Montana and is probably one of the best tail water damn fisheries in the State, but it is usually quite crowded (I say this tongue in cheek because it is crowded by Westerners standards but not by many others). This is one of the reasons that owning a second home or a piece of Red Lodge, Montana real estate is so appealing. The vast amount of recreational opportunity that is right at your doorstep is unbelievable and Montana's largest city is under one hour away. About the Author: Here is why Montana real estate may be one of the best buys anywhere if you love to fish. Kindly provided by LJ-Marketing.dk You are welcome to use this article on your own website, if you include the link just before this text. |
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