Montana Fly Fishing: Rain Dancing Pays Off...

For quite a spell now a bunch of us have been performing daily rain dances...and quess what? Yesterday the rain gods finally paid off...to the tune a 100 cfs plus bump up in the Big Hole flow...will no doubt put the river off in the short run but with the summer setting up as it is--hot, dry and dusty--best take any and all water offered no matter what does to the fish counts...

We started up high yesterday morning and got chased by a big thunderboomer which dumped big time...taking a gander at the sky we decided our best shot was down river and...were soon socked in an even heavier downpour...Around 1 pm the skies finally cleared and we enjoyed several hours of interesting top water action in one of our pet cricks...nothing like gangbusters still we caught more than enough trout--mostly brookies, a few colorful cutts--to whet our whistles and called it good.