Oh Hello Fall, There You Are...

Finally, with some nasty weather behind us and in front of us, we can officially say "Fall is here in Montana" and thank god for that. I can't take anymore sunshine and 80's in what's supposed to be streamer stripping time.

There's a few of these guys in the river right now, no wonder browns and rainbows love chowing on these things, I love sculpins almost as much as I love, well we'll just leave it there...

The first storm came through and dropped a few rainbows in the net on streamers, all rainbows, no browns. Dissapointing, and you can see by this guys jaw, he's had a tussle or two with flies.

Baetis were the rule of the day and so once the hatch popped, guess who wasn't eating streamers anymore? That's right the entire river, oh well, swinging soft hackles is sort of like streamer fishing, well not really, ok not at all except for the tug on the line. Here we go fall, I'm waiting brown trout, it's time to munch meat...