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tageater
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For the last 6 days my fishin buddy and I fished the Madison. I've never fished it and didn't know what to expect, but we had been watching the USGS water levels and knew the eater would be high.
We'd hoped for a Salmon fly hatch, but when we SAW the river we knew it wasn't to be. High water and lots of color in the water. We still had high hopes of some good fishing. We do prefer to fish off colored water- I say its cause with clear water I have to sneak up on them, and I'm not a sneaky bast@rd...
We stopped into Kelly Galloup's fly shop, and got his advice, picked up a few flies, and just talked fishing for a few...
We caught the hell out off the 14"-19" rainbows...a few Whitefish(boooooooo), and browns(the ones we went up there for) out to 23"-
The trip was an eye opener for me, as I learned a ton. (Including- when talking your nephew down to the lake to power-bait it with the snoopy rod, you better not assume it won't get pulled into the depths!)
I won't bore you with ALL the pictures of all the 14-19" fish we caught, but here is the best Brown netted. That's a big ole streamer in his mouth, NOT a pile of moss! I've never used streamers at night...Well I WILL never NOT throw one again, and the bigger the better!
We'd hoped for a Salmon fly hatch, but when we SAW the river we knew it wasn't to be. High water and lots of color in the water. We still had high hopes of some good fishing. We do prefer to fish off colored water- I say its cause with clear water I have to sneak up on them, and I'm not a sneaky bast@rd...
We stopped into Kelly Galloup's fly shop, and got his advice, picked up a few flies, and just talked fishing for a few...
We caught the hell out off the 14"-19" rainbows...a few Whitefish(boooooooo), and browns(the ones we went up there for) out to 23"-
The trip was an eye opener for me, as I learned a ton. (Including- when talking your nephew down to the lake to power-bait it with the snoopy rod, you better not assume it won't get pulled into the depths!)
I won't bore you with ALL the pictures of all the 14-19" fish we caught, but here is the best Brown netted. That's a big ole streamer in his mouth, NOT a pile of moss! I've never used streamers at night...Well I WILL never NOT throw one again, and the bigger the better!