This weekend was the most beautiful yet here in southwestern Montana and I was glad to finally get back on the water. Air temp yesterday was pushing 70! That sun felt good on my face; I'm not gonna lie, and the choir of birds got me whistling right along. Very refreshing after the long winter and seemingly month or two now without sun.
I got started with my buddy Jeremy yesterday afternoon in one of my favorite spots... just within earshot of Yankee Jim Canyon on the Yellowstone. Not much bug activity when we arrived so I started with a streamer. There's a big fishy hole right by the car and when I didn't get any takers I decided I must be doing something wrong. I switched it up to a big foam bug with a dropper about 36 inches below. That did the trick! Started to pick up fish after fish. Lots of whitefish but I didn't mind at all. Every once-in-a-while I'd pick up a trout. This one was close to 15 inches!
This cut here below dropped a hurt bomb on the foam bug! Guess he wanted meat and taters.
All in all I think I caught about 5 trout, all rainbow and 1 cut. Lost a few others. Also caught about a dozen whitefish. Everything came on the dropper except the one cut. Fished from about 2pm until 6pm or so... By the time we were packing up to head home a bunch of whitefish were rising in the pool on midges. I saw a march brown mayfly while we were out and there was also a black stonefly coming off as well. No caddis yet! Anyway it was fun. Hoping to get out a little more here over the next few weeks.
Hope to see you below the green boxes,
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I only wanted to see actions on midges & bwo on Saturday!! There are more to learn in Upper river. I plan to head your way a few times next month.
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