2024 Fish Pic Thread

[swimmy]

Really active thread right now. Solid.

Committed to the Sweetgrass all morning and stuck a toad on a size 4 Orange Cat Puke. Really fun fight on a 5 wt.



Lovin' the feel of that rod.

[Rasputin]

Swimmy with an hudge brown, must be close to summer.

I'm going to be leaving town for a while, tomorrow, to live in the woods with a bunch of nonconformist freaks, then visit friends and family in Oregon, and preach the gospel to street people, before hitting my 40th HS reunion. I may also visit my buddy in WA who is living in a house with a 300 pound pig.

I won't be doing much fishing (maybe a day or two with Dad), so today I went out and fished a small nearby tributary creek I've never fished before. Upon arriving I discovered that I'd gone out without my license, so after cussing a bit, I drove home and got it, then returned to the hole I had been looking at, but sadly, there were two other guys there by then (about 50 minutes had passed). I drove up the road a mile or two to a FS parking area, and plunged into the bush.

Soon after getting through the tangle to the water, I found this logjam, and hooked two smallies, landing one. One took a tan/orange micro-chubby, the other a small black nymph.




I turned over some rocks after a while, and found these bugs, ISBDs sent me a fine, heavy headed stone that looked pretty close, and I strung a hare's ear off the back of it.




I was about to head down stream down a dry side channel, but first I snuck my rig through the shadow of this little grassy point, expecting to get snagged, the water didn't seem deep enough. But my bubble disappeared and alleluia, my day was made! ISBDs heavy headed stone ftw!






Downstream, after nearly getting swept away crossing the creek twice, I saw this drop-off into soft water. I cast over the current, did a big loopy mend, and bam! A healthy little cutthroat.






It was a good last day on the water before my journey, I caught three, and lost two, in three hours on the water (there was plenty of crashing through brush as well). Good luck, and tight lines folks!

[swimmy]

Well our good luck dried up today as the bite pretty much turned off for us. Still seeing a few bugs scatted mid river but I think it is over and we are out of here tomorrow. Super fun couple of days though.




Home for a few days then moving camp for the next go-around.

[swimmy]

One more of sunrise this am before I pack up. I just love it up here.

[L8APX]

Been salty

[2FUNKY]

Hell yeah!


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[stealurface831]

Winning.


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[I've seen black diamonds!]

Hot damn....

[Self Jupiter]

What the fuck!

[teleee]

Been salty

Man every one else has way better timing than me down in the salty parts of the world. By the way L8APX picked up your new creation in a 5weight f the thing is money! I may be in love.


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[L8APX]

Thanks for the support on the 5! We are really happy with the whole series.

[I've seen black diamonds!]

[swimmy]

Scouting mission today for round two on big bugs. No adults yet but we are close.

Nymphing was solid.

[tgapp]

sorry folks been absent on account of the box fan shitting the bed

and the fact that we're gonna have a kid in a month or so

some nice browns from a local tail water (my very favorite, shout out to Mars b for showing me around)







plus

a few nice bows from fishing with Dibs today




and

a laker i got on the fly earlier this year (while the box fan was still soiling itself)





and

A BONUS SHELDON PIC




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fucking love all the stoke, those drums look incredible



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After a busy spring, i finally got on the river again last weekend

[Norseman]

[teleee]

Picked up a strange one this evening




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[stealurface831]

see a fair number of palominos around here. they are an abomination before god.

[L8APX]

The other dry fly season has started.

[TBS]

^^^Nice

And on the other end of the spectrum, my granddaughter caught her first troot today (about an hour after the pond was restocked…)


She named it Rainbow Sky before we returned it to the pond

[lifelinksplit]

Yay summer.

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[Harry]

Your last pic is swimmy-quality. Just gorgeous.


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[Djongo Unchained]

Picked up a strange one this evening




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Even the Hound is thinking 'what the fuck?'

Is that an INL trout?

[lifelinksplit]

Went to check out some skinny water. Wouldn't normally Hotspot but I think this was a pretty cool collaboration that benefits us regular joes. And it's a bit rough to get into and I've only seen one person in 5years. Also I didn't catch shit and something was breaking a fuckload of branches causing an early departure with the dogs.

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[swimmy]

New river, same game. Been up here a couple of times this week anticipating the arrival of the big bugs. Today I saw the first adult! Actually I saw caddis, pmd's, a golden stone, and a salmon fly. It is basically a bug buffet right now.


Dry fly fishing was a bit slow, nymphing was really good. Hoping that changes in the next few days as I'm back home for the evening but I've got the camper loaded and headed out tomorrow for a week or so.


Late June in SW Montana is hard to beat if you are trout fisherman.