After fishing for several hours, you eyes and mind tend to play tricks on you.  This is especially true when you’re out in “Black Bear” country.  Now I know what I a saw wasn’t a bear, it was something bigger, menacing, hungry and I’m sure it was Bigfoot.

Of course personal safety is always a concern when a bear comes after you, it’s the trout or you that the bear wants to eat and I prefer to hand over my catch of the day.  But this wasn’t a bear.

I hardly tell this tale, because they all say it was a bear and not Bigfoot.  But I know what I saw and those fellers Whitton and Dyer found Bigfoot’s dead body.

Now I’m not going to tell exactly you where I saw Bigfoot because it’s going to spoil a perfectly good secret that I was never planning to expose.  But whenever I’m in Atlanta, I try to make a side trip to Blue Ridge in the Northern part of GA.  You just gotta find the creek.

With all the fishing I do, my secret fishing holes sometimes gets lost and buried in the back of my mind. Of course I’ve kept maps and records so when I return I can get down to what’s important: catching fish. But for the past 5 years or so, I’ve been using the Garmin eTrex to log waypoints and GPS coordinates so that I can actually go back to the same spot within a few meters or so.

One nice thing about my Garmin is that fact that the GPS receiver is waterproof and believe me I’ve tested this fact on accident when I slipped on a slimy rock.  Both the reciever and me got drenched but the eTrax managed out better since I banged up my knee pretty bad.

Even though the hike back to the car was painful, the Garmin kept me on the right track.  That day I was really glad I had GPS and set a waypoint at my car since I could’t see where the car through the thick brush but the eTrax said I was only 100 meters away.

Alas, I found my car and headed back to the motel for some badly needed ice on the knee. The next day I used the eTrex to go to the exact spot to catch some more rainbows.  But that is another story…

Wyoming is one of the best places to fish… and if you love fly fishing, you definitely need to spend a few days in Northwestern part of the state.

There’s a secret to catching really big trout. You just gotta know where to look. To help you out, start first by planning a fishing trip to the Bighorn River in Wyoming.

Just outside of Manderson, perhaps 100 miles east of Yellowstone, you’ll find some of the biggest trout in the US that are just jumping out of the water. The Bighorn River is easily accessible by flying into Cody or just off I-25 if you’re coming south from Colorado or West on I-90 from South Dakota.

The river is packed with huge Rainbow and Brown Trout. The cool waters from the dam above keep the water from freezing during the winter and cold in the summer for an extra long growing season.

Expect nothing but lots of big fish when planning your trip to the Bighorn River, WY. Now I’m not gonna tell y’all where I exactly go, but with 11,000 trout per stretch of mile, I’m sure that anywhere along the river will do just fine.