Locked out of Flat Creek – You’re Kidding?

by | Oct 1, 2013 | government shutdown | 1 comment

blog-Oct-1-2013-1-Locked-out-of-Flat-CreekI had errands to do in Jackson today so I figured to throw in a few hours of photography on Flat Creek on the National Elk Refuge.  I badly need some rising fish photos and thought I’d creep through the tall grass and get a few shots from close range.  I invited a couple friends because perhaps I’d get real lucky and get a shot of an enormous cutty eating their fly.  Well guess what, we got kicked off the Refuge because of the Government shutdown!

 

blog-Oct-1-2013-2-Flat-Creek-closedI don’t watch the news.  I don’t care to keep up with shopping mall shootings or the latest junk show in Washington.  News is simply depressing.  Well today Washington’s latest junk show and depressing news hit home.  We’ve been locked out of three of our nearby incredible fall fisheries; Flat Creek (National Elk Refuge), Jenny Lake (Grand Teton National Park) and all of Yellowstone National Park.

 

Idiots!  You got to be kidding me!

Jeff Currier Global Fly Fishing

1 Comment

  1. David McKenzie

    That’s lame. I made a random stop to check out Flat while I was passing through a couple of years ago and ebdec up spending a day and half. Fun challenging creek with quality fish!

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I started fly fishing at age 7 in the lakes and ponds of New England cutting my teeth on various sunfish, bass, crappie and stocked trout. I went to Northland College in Ashland, Wisconsin, where I graduated with a Naturalist Degree while I discovered new fishing opportunities for pike, muskellunge, walleyes and various salmonids found in Lake Superior and its tributaries.

From there I headed west to work a few years in the Yellowstone region to simply work as much as most people fish and fish as much as most people work. I did just that, only it lasted over 20 years working at the Jack Dennis Fly Shop in Jackson, WY where I departed in 2009. Now it’s time to work for "The Man", working for myself that is.

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