A bad day fishing?

heading down the dusty dirt road.....

are we there yet?

I've been hitting my favorite river pretty hard lately. I think the fish may know my car and the definitely know the flys i tie. I had lots of fish come up just to take a look but, most refused to eat it.

my golden stone pattern that used to work!

gotta love fishing the "foam line"

I tried nymphing in my favorite holes, the "between the rocks hole, the "ponderosa hole", and the "uppercamp hole", and only caught a few small trout and a monsterous whitey.

So one would think that it was a bad day fishing right?......

Maggie never met a stick she couldnt fetch!

wrong!

it was a great day to fish because I had my favorite fishing companion to go with. After almost 3 months Maggie is back so of course she wanted to go fishing....  how could one refuse those eyes?

A day fishing with Maggie is always a joy and certainly isn't fishing alone!

Maggie will follow just about anywhere.

All I know for sure is it was glorious to have my best fishing buddy back!

the "pooper" is pooped......

but not kitty....... she didn't get to go!

hermit out!

You Don't Know Unless You Go

Conventional wisdom in fishing is, rivers "on the rise" dont fish well. Recent near record warm temps  causing snow melt then, thunderstorms the night before had made the river had made the river increase by %25.

Rives rising.................

my friend Brendan and I were planning to go and check out the salmon fly hatch, and both being junkies we look at the USGS river flow site like 20 times a day. and on the morning in question the hydrograph was going up fast!

would it be muddy?

think the bugs will still be out?

fish don't eat well on the rise do they?

should we still go?

high.................. but clearish

salmon  fly in lower right

these questions and many more were shot across cyber space as texts.................

Golden stone!

but the last one was the most important one: "you don't know until you go"

and true words were never spoken.

look at the pics and judge for yourself.

nice rainbow

B's brown one of many!