Ham's Fork: Flat Tire

Wednesday morning we went to the sportsman’s access closer to the dam.  After Nick put on his waders he says “oh no, we’ve got a flat tire”.  OK, let’s take the waders back off.  Needless to say, this delayed the fishing for a while.  The spare was in good shape.  In fact, it was a regular tire, not a small spare tire.  Heading back to Kemmerer we found Cooper Tires who quickly fixed the flat.  While there, we ate lunch at Taco Time and made a call home since we had phone service.

Since our fishing had already been interrupted by the flat tire, we decided to go check out the Green River and see what kind of shape it was in.  Remember, this was our original destination.  Well, the river was a couple of feet high with lots of debris floating down river.  The water was pretty clear but it would be tough wading with the river so high.  Streamer fishing would be fruitless, catching mostly weeds on every cast.  We ate lunch at my old camp site (from a previous trip) overlooking the river.  The sandwiches were pastrami, corned beef, cream cheese, cheddar cheese and swiss cheese on whole grain bread.  We ate these with Fritos, V-8 and Gatorade. 

This area is desert with only sage brush as greenery.  Seeing this made us feel fortunate we were camping in the Bridger National Forest.  We did however; still see a moose in the middle of this desert.  I slowed down to take pictures and the moose ran along with us.

We then went and checked out another access point.  Again we caught lots of trout, although still on the small side. 

While checking out the various stretches of the river, we encountered some fishermen above Kemmerer Reservoir who had good luck catching larger fish on the private property, after paying a $10 trespassing fee. 

We decided we would try this spot in the morning.

For dinner we warmed up cans of stew while watching an elk and its calf on the hillside on the other side of the river.