Fly Fishing Tip #1

The Upper Gallatin River in YNP is a great place to hone your fly fishing skills. 

Not many of us can hold a 40-hour per week job,  fly fish all day, everyday, for an entire summer. But, lucky me, that first summer after high school, working the graveyard shift in a local mill allowed me the freedom to do just that—like how much (or, more to the point, how little) sleep does an 18-year old male really need? Right.

That come mid-July, Billy, and I were pretty much fished out and for the rest of the summer behaved in less insane fashion is not the point. The point is we took full advantage of a once in a lifetime opportunity to jump start what might otherwise have been a long, steep learning curve.  All that fishing allowed us to learn and hone our skills in a relatively short time. 

While nowhere close to master-class, by summers end our catch rate—though still nothing to write home about—was off the charts compared to our earlier attempts. But the big deal was discovering how much we enjoyed fishing new water, the challenge of fooling difficult, pulling off the impossible shot and that a good day had little to do with numbers or size but rather how well graded our fishing. 
So with that in mind, here ya go: Tip Numero Uno: FISH MORE.