It’s the start of a lot of fishing for me. We have our friends Steve and Lisa from Phoenix in town. We fished today and will again tomorrow and probably Tuesday. I have a three day Ambassador film/photo shoot with Scientific Anglers Wednesday through Friday. Next week it’s off to the Henry’s Fork to do the best version of my Solstice Marathon possible. I’m teaching a full day seminar in Big Sky, MT. A morning on Hebgen. Donating time for Fishing for the Fight event in WY. And more from there we’ll get into as it comes. But my schedule is nuts!
I have never in my life seen such a circus of people in Idaho for the 4th of July so I had to dig deep to find fishing without others casting over my shoulder. Furthermore, Lisa is new to fly fishing so I also wanted a place where the fish were dry fly cooperative. We found it. I hiked Steve and Lisa to some backcountry cutthroat waters I haven’t been on in years.
Fishing was superb. These aren’t big fish but simply beautiful native Yellowstone Cutthroats. They were feeding heavily on caddis and sallies. Although they weren’t easy to catch, Steve and Lisa caught more than 20. I only fished to one fish but it was a technical riser hidden far back under a stump. I got the colorful little guy – fun stuff!
This will always be my favorite type of fishing – great stuff!
Gorgeous fish!!! I love the challenge cast!