Trout of North America
I received the Trout of North America calendar today in the mail, a gift from my friend Ken, out in Idaho. For a minute I was transported away from this January chill to Alberta, and the Crowsnest Pass, fishing for big trout this past summer with little flies alongside Ken and East Texas Red and an un-named black bear. I love that river. Do you know the Ramblin Jack Elliott story song, 912 Greens....where he sings, "Did you ever.....get a shiver....just because....just because....you're looking..........at a riv-er?".
Anyone else out there in love with rivers? I guess it's better than being in love with a train.
What's your favourite river?
9 comments:
What a gorgeous river!
My favorite river is the river that runs through Wind River Canyon. I'm not sure what its called.........I'll post ya a pic.
I believe that is the Wind River, I think becomes the Bighorn. I've never fished it, but I'd like to. I would also like to fish TenSleep Creek in the TenSleep canyon, which is one of the most beautiful places I've seen in Wyoming.
Here is what Wikipedia says about the Wind: The Wind River is the name applied to the upper reaches of the Bighorn River in Wyoming in the United States. The two rivers are sometimes referred to as the Wind/Bighorn.
It arises in several forks along the north side of the Wind River Range in west central Wyoming. It flows southeastward, across the Shoshone Basin and the Wind River Indian Reservation and joins the Little Wind River near Riverton. It flows northward, through a gap in the Owl Creek Mountains, where the name of the river becomes the Bighorn River. In the Owl Creek Mountains, it is dammed to form the Boysen Reservoir, which is considered the source of the Bighorn.
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List of Wyoming rivers
Technically the Wind River becomes the Big Horn River at the Wedding of the rivers, north of the Wind River canyon and slighly south of Thermopolis, Wyoming.
I am definately a river lover. But picking one is almost impossible. Each has it's own special charms.
The Pine in Michigan, the Paint in the UP, The Pigeon and Wildcat Creek in Indiana, the Brule in Wisconsin. Or maybe the Rifle in Michigan. Still exploring and finding new loves....
I love rivers, too, coming from the land of many of them. I live very near the Columbia, but it's big and deep and sometimes scary (not to mention polluted in places). I like the little rivers that run from the mountains and glaciers locally. There's too many and I don't know the names. I'm a water person; I love lakes and the ocean and wetlands.
I'm familiar with some of the rivers around Fernie, including some special places back in grizzly country. BC has awesome rivers!
I'm with GreatBear...I love rivers but the idea of picking just one is too difficult.
Rivers from my childhood figure in: the Assiniboine in Manitoba, the Strathcona on north Vancouver Island is a favourite because we used to take inner tubes down it...and she was a freezing cold river I'll tell ya. Then the Bear River where you and I camed on Bear Creek in Montana is still ranking as one fo my favourite places ever. I even love the Frazer river as I have done much fishing there...fished Campbell River too. Oh, a strong tough river again from my youth is the Kitimat River...impossible to walk across could take you down, but for walking and looing and picnics...wonderful. I also used to take inner tubes down the Elbow in Calgary. oh I could keep a list going for ages I think here...and the Magnetawan which I have spent endless hours fishing, swimming in canoes, watching moose, beavers, pulling out those awful weeds killing rivers...and the Credit river too...
John Mc and I floated the Kitimat back in 83 in a tiny leaky rubber dinghy....it kept folding in half along the way. Candy, I think the stream we camped at in Montana was Skalkaho Creek (Black Bear Campground)....remember that asshole chasing the moose through the pass?
Yes I do remember that poor tortured moose. Oh yes I know we drove through Skalkaho pass...I guess I was so obsessed with my bearanoia I was calling everything by bear namesAlthough I seem to recall some national parks had names like Beartearyouapart National Park and Bearsteethinyourskull National Reserve.
Yeah, like that campground outside the NE gate of Yellowstone with the big metal boxes at each campsite to bearproof food......I confess to being a little nervous camping at that one.....
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