Garth
07-10-2007, 08:59 PM
I just had one of those moments that will last a lifetime on a trip with furandfeathers. It was not me doing the catching, just the colaberation and watching.
We walked down an unnammed river in Montana and started to fish back up. Two small a river for us to work both on the same side. We were on the right hand bank as you look upstream. Kerry has a bad ankle so I crossed over to the left hand side to fish up. I was a little ahead of him and saw a great sight. I knew I could not cast across the river and get a good drift. I called over to Kerry and said Come on up here (maybe 20 to 30 feet).
Across from me was a VW size bolder in the river. The main current was comming right into the front of the boulder. On the right there was 1 to 2 feet between the boulder and the bank. Most of the main current went around the left side of the boulder. Above the boulder from the bank was a tree. Maybe 15 feet between the top of the boulder and the lower branches. The branches extended about 15ft over the slick water behind the boulder. The slick water went about 35 feet where a large dead tree was half in and out of the water. There was barbed wire going from the top of the dead tree to the upper bank. Main current hitting the bottom of the tree with a slick behind that.
Kerry had never caught a lot of fish on dry flies before. We were doing a hopper droper rig. Royal Wulff size 10 as the drt. Flashback Pheasent tail as the droper. Because of his bad ankle Kerry had to go over the dead tree and barbed wire.
I told him I knew there just had to be some great fish in there. Kerry starts working the slick. Doing a crossbody sidearm cast to keep out of the tree. He cast's tree times to te seam on the main current with no luck. I suggest going to th little seam on the right side between the boulder and the bank. Kerry puts a perfect sidearm crossbody cast right there on the first cast. Wulff floats 6 inches as it comes into the slick. This great big head bust the water and nails that Wulf, Fish on. Big fish on.
Fish takes off for the main current. He is there and heading downstream. Kerry Keeps his tip up and starts to follow. He has to go back over the Barbed wire, branches of the dead tree. on a steap bank while keeping his rod tip up and not loosing the fish in the fast current. He makes it over and still has the fish. He gets him out of the fast current into the slick behind the dead tree and lands him. Oh ya I have the net across the river so he has to get him to shore to land him in about 2 inches of water. My estimate looking across was 22 inches and about 16 in girth. About 7 pound brown trout, fish of the day.
We had a great trip with many fish on. Many big fish and many small fish, but that fish and the scene, our colaberation, the skill/luck of getting back over the obsticals will stay with me. Thought I would try and paint a verbal picture to share with you all.
We walked down an unnammed river in Montana and started to fish back up. Two small a river for us to work both on the same side. We were on the right hand bank as you look upstream. Kerry has a bad ankle so I crossed over to the left hand side to fish up. I was a little ahead of him and saw a great sight. I knew I could not cast across the river and get a good drift. I called over to Kerry and said Come on up here (maybe 20 to 30 feet).
Across from me was a VW size bolder in the river. The main current was comming right into the front of the boulder. On the right there was 1 to 2 feet between the boulder and the bank. Most of the main current went around the left side of the boulder. Above the boulder from the bank was a tree. Maybe 15 feet between the top of the boulder and the lower branches. The branches extended about 15ft over the slick water behind the boulder. The slick water went about 35 feet where a large dead tree was half in and out of the water. There was barbed wire going from the top of the dead tree to the upper bank. Main current hitting the bottom of the tree with a slick behind that.
Kerry had never caught a lot of fish on dry flies before. We were doing a hopper droper rig. Royal Wulff size 10 as the drt. Flashback Pheasent tail as the droper. Because of his bad ankle Kerry had to go over the dead tree and barbed wire.
I told him I knew there just had to be some great fish in there. Kerry starts working the slick. Doing a crossbody sidearm cast to keep out of the tree. He cast's tree times to te seam on the main current with no luck. I suggest going to th little seam on the right side between the boulder and the bank. Kerry puts a perfect sidearm crossbody cast right there on the first cast. Wulff floats 6 inches as it comes into the slick. This great big head bust the water and nails that Wulf, Fish on. Big fish on.
Fish takes off for the main current. He is there and heading downstream. Kerry Keeps his tip up and starts to follow. He has to go back over the Barbed wire, branches of the dead tree. on a steap bank while keeping his rod tip up and not loosing the fish in the fast current. He makes it over and still has the fish. He gets him out of the fast current into the slick behind the dead tree and lands him. Oh ya I have the net across the river so he has to get him to shore to land him in about 2 inches of water. My estimate looking across was 22 inches and about 16 in girth. About 7 pound brown trout, fish of the day.
We had a great trip with many fish on. Many big fish and many small fish, but that fish and the scene, our colaberation, the skill/luck of getting back over the obsticals will stay with me. Thought I would try and paint a verbal picture to share with you all.