Spring time in the Northern Rockies

Yesterday it blowing 75 mph in the valley, today it was absolutely spectacular. Me and the boat dog got out for a float and enjoyed the great weather.

Listening to the Masters while floating down a river in SW Montana...man it doesn't get much better.

Nymph bite kept our attention. He's a pretty mellow boat dog but does get interested whenever you hook a fish. Like, every single time.

And not sure patterns really mattered as I found success on wire worms, march brown nymphs, and egg patterns.

Don't recall ever seeing these on this stretch. So that was kind of cool.

And managed to find my first decent fish of the year on the streamer. Been messing around with some different colors...this one fell for burnt orange.

Weather is about to turn again so I'm going to settle in on the bench for a couple days and watch one of the great sporting events of all time.

But today was great. Love spring time here and more to come.

 

[O' Clarkii Stomias]

Yesterday it blowing 75 mph in the valley, today it was absolutely spectacular. Me and the boat dog got out for a float and enjoyed the great weather.

Listening to the Masters while floating down a river in SW Montana...man it doesn't get much better.

Nymph bite kept our attention. He's a pretty mellow boat dog but does get interested whenever you hook a fish. Like, every single time.

And not sure patterns really mattered as I found success on wire worms, march brown nymphs, and egg patterns.

Don't recall ever seeing these on this stretch. So that was kind of cool.

And managed to find my first decent fish of the year on the streamer. Been messing around with some different colors...this one fell for burnt orange.

Weather is about to turn again so I'm going to settle in on the bench for a couple days and watch one of the great sporting events of all time.

But today was great. Love spring time here and more to come.

The greatest sporting event did not disappoint today!

 

[Tombraider]

Killer

 

[Kenneth Yong]

The greatest sporting event did not disappoint today!

We're talking here about the TW Show, right? If yes, definitely great stuff.

Kenneth

 

[swimmy]

Tiger is not human. What he did yesterday is still hard to comprehend.

 

[_WW_]

Does Kirby ever row?

 

[O' Clarkii Stomias]

Tiger is not human. What he did yesterday is still hard to comprehend.

Oh he's human, strippers, cheating on wife, prescription drugs, reckless driving....... He's just one mentally tough SOB. A lot like Hogan.

 

[swimmy]

Back at today after a little break. Got out for a solo float which I dig every once and a while. I can take my time, take some photos, and just putz around.

Wanted to try out some of my new streamers, see how they swim, and see if they'd stick a 2' brown. Checked off the first two but still looking for the 2'er.

Actually didn't land a single fish on the streamer. But got into a nice baetis hatch and wrecked a bunch of dinks on blue wings.

I also can't quit looking in the trees and noticed another heron rookery. Thanks to the member who named this for me.

We've got more snow coming in tomorrow so gonna take a day or two off. But planning on getting the camper out Sunday and posting up on the river for a few days.

 

[M_D]

But got into a nice baetis hatch

cool picture

 

[Coach Potter]

Great pics!

 

[chrome/22]

That's a gorgeous brown you caught

c/22

 

[swimmy]

Forecast today was calling for low 50's, overcast, and light winds. So we thought it would be a perfect day to get out for some streamer fishing.

Well we moved a bunch of fish on the streamer but never could stick one...something like 0 for 12. Dang.

However, as a consolation, we got into one of the best March Brown hatches I've ever seen. While hard to time this is one of the more underrated hatches in Montana.

March browns, blue wings, and midges. Which one would you eat?

And the fish were on 'em. No hawgs but we ran up a body count and I can check off catching a fish on a March Brown for the year.

More snow coming this week. Awesome.

 

[Coach Potter]

I got lucky 2 weeks ago and participated in a March Brown hatch the likes of which I doubt I will ever see gain...back to back days lasting for hours on end. The first day it was a mix of Skwala and March Brown's but the second day it was all March Brown's all day!

Making it even better, I had a guy fishing with me who had never caught more than 5-6 fish on a dry fly in a day. He's an older guy who is new to fishing and he caught an obscene number of fish that last day. He dang near missed his flight home because he didn't want to leave. Watching and listening to a 65 year old man act like he was 12 was the best part of the 2 days!

 

[swimmy]

Killer float today with the wife.

 

[swimmy]

Killer weather today so got out for a solo mission with the dogs

Super windy the next few days then rain/snow this weekend. Guess it's back to the bench.

 

[Old Man]

The weather was somewhat nice here in Butte today. Sunshine and 65 today. Did I get out. No, but I did finally got my license. I'm still down from breaking my leg. Being an oldman has something to do with that. I don't bounce back like I used to.

 

[troutstalker]

The weather was somewhat nice here in Butte today. Sunshine and 65 today. Did I get out. No, but I did finally got my license. I'm still down from breaking my leg. Being an oldman has something to do with that. I don't bounce back like I used to.

Sorry to hear about your leg, Jim. The first step though to getting out fishing is buying a license so your definitely headed in the right direction.

 

[swimmy]

The weather was somewhat nice here in Butte today. Sunshine and 65 today. Did I get out. No, but I did finally got my license. I'm still down from breaking my leg. Being an oldman has something to do with that. I don't bounce back like I used to.

Dang, sorry to hear about your leg.

But yeah, super nice out there today.

 

[Old Man]

Oh he's human, strippers, cheating on wife, prescription drugs, reckless driving....... He's just one mentally tough SOB. A lot like Hogan.

Ben Hogan ??

 

[MELinOre]

Ben Hogan ??

Colonel Hogan (Bob Crane)

I really wanted to post a link to the lead song from the movie "The Producers", but most here would have taken it seriously.