6-14-07 HARDIN, MONTANA: The trip wraps up this morning. Ken and I go to the Billings Airport in an hour or so for the flights back to Newark. The previous two days Jon and I fished all day on the first and half day on the second. We continued to catch lots of trout, rainbows and browns, both days and got pretty good at it. Jon caught a white fish, about the same size as the trout, and we both tried catching carp for a while. The carp are bigger than the trout, like shallow backwaters, and behave differently on the line. The trout jump and swim from side to side, but the carp go in a straight line. I hooked one that towed the boat almost a quarter mile, upstream, before breaking loose. We never saw it, the water was murky there and we never got it to the surface. After that episode, we couldn’t hook another one there, they avoided the boat. When we went to where they were jumping, they disappeared and reappeared elsewhere. When we went to that new place, they reappeared at the first site. Smart fish.
Yesterday we went out with Adam, Dell was off, and did the lower half of the river. We got lots of trout, mostly small, 10 to 12 inches and one big carp at a different slue that I caught and landed. It was 27 inches, not very big for a carp. As you can see, they look like torpedos. It was pretty heavy, felt like a small bag of fertilizer.
After fishing yesterday, Jon and I went to the Big Horn Battlefield site. It is only a few miles from the lodge. They do a nice job explaining the events and letting you walk and drive the site.
Part of the Big Horn Battlefield and what eastern Montana looks like.
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