KT and Shannon,

The dry fly game begins anew,,,after some well needed leveling off of river flows and a month long disco ball in the sky we now are experiencing the normal weather patterns of SW Montana, afternoon thunder clouds!

With them come the occasional torrential down poor resulting in a slowdown/ complete stop of angling success but,,,,prior and post of the fast climactic change the dry fly fishing can be phenomenal. As trout fishing goes this will all change in a week or two and again make no sense what so ever.

The nymphing on the Beaverhead has become,,,,well,,, “Rictor Dude” as the young cool guides all say,,,I must have lost that with my hair on my dome long ago!

A good cloud cover brings on the caddis and mayfly hatch depending on daytime occurrence.

Fishing for GAY trout, another lesson in the nonsense of trout fishing, overcast on the Big Hole throw anything Purple on the surface = brown trout on the dry.

No Hoppers on parade YET.

The Big Hole Spruce Moth has not yet gotten the message; he fly’s around but will not fall dead on the water.