Good news is the river is really fishing good, at least most days...caddis, yellow sallies, pmds topside; lightning bugs, lightning bugs and lightning bugs underneath...did I mention lightning bugs? Gold seems to work best but yesterday we spanked 'em pretty good on pearl jobs the only lightning bugs (sorry) left in the shop...sort a tells ya something, eh?
On the other hand the Big Hole continues to drop 639 this morning at Maiden Rock...though actually the last couple days has been in a sort of holding pattern. I rowed Melrose to Brown's couple days ago and touched nary a rock though a couple spots took a bit of ingenious, cat-like moves on the sticks to get down unscathed, ahem, ahem, not to brag you understand. Fishing's been pretty good specially if you harbor no qualms going to the dark side whenever the topside stuff wanes...
I got no such shame and rigged Nick right from the get go with...you guessed it...a pair gold lightning bugs and he beaned trout and a bunch of whitefish all the way the take out...we hauled the last brown trout right into the takeout...much to the chagrin of a bunch drunken Ideeho yahoos who apparently were in the midst of washing down the taste of skunk with yet another few cans a brown vitamins...what a goddamn circus...the curtain call being when the head yahoo backed the trailer BAM! into the aluminum boat and weren't for Nick might still be chasin' it downriver...real entertaining this bunch...oh well...and I might mention also tis damn hot out there, don't forget the sun dope and wide, wide brim noggin' wear...over and out...
No comments:
Post a Comment