This is the time of year that some forms of mild guide burnout can start to occur. It’s been real hot and I’ve been rowing my raft or drift boat since late February. I saw a guide friend of mine Ryan at 6:00 am buying his lunch at Safeway and we both look like walking zombies. A month or so ago our conversations would be like “Hey RY, how was your day” I’d ask? He would reply “Good man we stuck some nice browns on drakes, then they transitioned to goldens with some salmon flys around.” Now its like “hey Ry” He replies “waiting for my sandwiches”. I mumble “I can’t find anything” as I stumble around, “I guess I’ll cook something since they forgot to make my damn sandwiches, and I’ll be late if I wait for them.”
My boss Joe took one look at me this morning and said “Dude, you need to take a day off, and said “stay home Tuesday”. Maybe it’s because I need a hair cut, who knows?
We’ll I’ve been lucky and fortunate to have real positive, fun people the last week in my boat to keep my spirits up. We had some real good dry fly fishing with little goldens. The dropper fishing has been solid and the Clark Fork produced multiple 20 inch fish with one 2 footer the last couple of days Some fish started eating hoppers and hopefully water temps will hang in there and not get to high to stress the trout out. I’m getting some bigger fish memorized and we started catching them more than once. I’m looking in previous years log books to gameplan mid summer floats. I really try to avoid hi traffic areas and not chase other guides right now, gotta be on my own program!
Anyway in a little over a month archery elk and grouse season opens. This summer is flying by.
See you guys!