Grebe Lake - New Hike

Bob bought the Yellowstone fishing license to try his hand at fly fishing. Grebe was a lake recommended so we read up on it and drove out to do the hike and let him fish.

There's nothing like a bison jam when you want to make it from point A to B within a reasonable amount of time in YS. And the front vehicles are afraid to move.





Funny side story: Last week one of the Yellowstone Forever buses was gored by a bull bison. We saw the picture of the tire. He put his whole horn in one on the back. There was quite a flap of rubber you could pull back.







Our 'boss' is also the fleet manager and had to drive another bus out for the driver to continue and said he put the jack on and would pump twice then have to jump back in the bus to let more bison walk by. Took him awhile to change the tire :)








Back to Grebe. The description is for a mostly flat hike approximately 3.3 miles in. It is one of the best spots to find Arctic Grayling outside of Alaska.

3.3 miles is quite a way to haul heavy waders along with all the fishing gear and back packs so we didn't bring them.







We got to the lake after about 90 mins and immediately saw its a very marshy area. No waders, no real fishing. Sigh. Bob gave it a try in a few places and when his hook caught in a tree, he silently packed it up.









Here are some action shots. What you can't see are the 2 fishermen with waders out in the water. They caught several small Graylings and a few rainbow trout. (YS is catch and release with a few special exceptions).

























We sloughed through the marshland to the downed tree line you can see here.



























This swan was not worried about us in the least so we got some nice pictures of it.


That is also where we ate lunch. Again, not a bad view.






Grebe Lake with Wolf Lake make up the headwaters of the Gibbon River, the start of one of the longest waterways in the world.








The Gibbon flows into the Madison River, which flows into the Missouri River, which flows into the Mississippi River to cover over 3,500 miles once it hits the salt water of the Gulf of Mexico.









We have decided we've had more than a lifetime of hikes through the 1988 lodge pole pine fire that ravished the park. Here's what a good bit of the hike looked like. But it was a pretty day and adding in the walk around more than half of the lake we a total of 8 miles.

Another item we didn't carry in was Bob's camera so these shots are from my iPhone.