FISH CATCHING TRAVEL

Knockin Tail Lures by My Coast Outdoors

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The Boss is Back

Miner Creek Road trail, where we took our hike today.

Glad to have my best buddy here.  It has been a while.

We took a great hike today and the weather was stunning.  After I picked her up at the airport on Saturday there was a free town pig roast right down the street.  Last year they buried 3 hogs and ended up running out so this year they cooked 6 with all the fixings.  It was delicious and basically the whole town was there with some music to boot.  One of the things I love about this “small town” atmosphere, when was the last time your town had free food for all, and everybody showed up?

Fall is here and with it the migration of folks back to their homes, most from Texas but they are from all over.  There are plenty of hunters and the hard core fly fishermen still here but that will also change shortly, then it is a quiet mountain town with a few hundred people and a ton of snow.  We have worked hard to get things the way we want them so when I return in January it will be good to go and I can just enjoy the winter, which is spectacular.

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Our Backyard Rocks

Was making the morning coffee and he and his mate were right out my back window.  One beautiful animal.

Dead still as they watched the turkeys down the hill.  To bad the other pics of the mate were just too fuzzy.

The object of their affection.  There are just tons of them passing through the yard every day. 

Turkeys, mule deer, coyotes, and it won’t be long before the bear makes an appearance.  As the Boss said when I sent her the coyote pictures we live in a zoo.

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The Wade Right Fishing Belt and the new Madre Sling.

For all your wading needs.

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On the way back from out hide we spotted these guys.  I never get tired of seeing sheep.  And as soon as the big snow comes they will be down in force and I will be chasing them for the perfect pic.

It really helps to have my wingman with me.  I would have missed these.

Watching me watching you.

Junior.

No big rams, but they are getting there.

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One of the 2 big boys who have been migrating up the hill behind the house every morning.

You can just see his buddy’s horns in the center of the picture.  He is a hoss.

The rut is not quite in full swing, but it is coming.  For now, we are still seeing bucks hanging out together in peace, but that is about to change.  We are so privileged to live here due to our love of all things wild.  While the mule deer were not as prevalent this summer they are back.  And the turkeys were flat gone until this month but are now here in force, this morning we saw maybe 50 give or take a wad.  Our backyard makes our breakfast an adventure every morning.

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The Boss worked a couple of long stretches to be able to come out here for the next 2 weeks.  Today we will be doing some responsible stuff, including making a batch of fresh Bighorn chili.  While I was unsure how a 10 1/2 old ram would taste he is great.  Not gamey at all his backstrap was great, we pan fried some yesterday and today chili.  Tomorrow will head to the lake and catch some trout for her required fish fry.

And we have mapped out our route to Yellowstone with a couple of stops on the way it will basically be through the mountains the whole trip.  Past of our original thought process when we were looking was easy access to the west.  And then 4 full days in the park, where it has been snowing and will probably not be above 50 degrees.  Perfect.  So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.

Good Luck and Tight Lines