Montana Fly Fishing: Out With Old; In With the New (Old)

Ron Evans bought Ol' Greenie last fall. I agreed to paint and do whatever maintenance I thought necessary. Friday he and Kris came to Dillon to pick it up and asked us to join them for a short float on the Big Hole.

Ron Evans photo

We'd actually planned to test drive our recently refurbished Hyde later that day anyway. Kris and Gale did the fishing, while Ron and I manned the oars. As turned out the fishing was slow but with the river running around 2400 cfs the rowing was easy. We put in around noon at Salmon Fly and took out at Browne's Bridge around three...near record time to be sure but not such a bad way to while away the warmest afternoon yet this spring. Because of the weather and that the river has been fishing well most of the spring we expected a crowd; instead I think we saw just two other boats.