What a fantastic way to start out Fishing Season 2011 yesterday was, gang!
As the attached pics reflect, an overcast day did not dampen a 20+ fish day with our realtor John Horton, shown above first bankside with mascot Buddy holding a football sized 18” Bitterroot rainbow lugger and then with his own self inflicted double—John was fishing a dry fly and, beneath it, a San Juan worm, the topside yielding his primo cutthroat held above on the left in his right hand (yes, I know, fishing can be confusing!)—see the red “cut mark” beneath the fish’s chin [from which it gets its name]—and a gorgeous rainbow in the other donned in its winteresque dark hues taking his dropper at the same moment.
We fished the upper portion of the Bitterroot (shown well in the last of the photos above), floating over 12 miles from Darby towards Hamilton where the water was gin clear, the dry fly fishing outstanding and the braided river system glistening (and its fish robust population flourishing) after its now fourth straight season of post-drought water flow recovery.
It is very, very clear gang that (a) we are going to have plenty of water to fish during E-11 and (b) this is going to be the Year of the Big Fish…bueno, bueno, bueno!!
Best to all from the now christened scene of it all!!
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