I guided today in many different weather conditions on the Bitterroot north of Hamilton Montana. It started out raining, then got warm and sunny, then a windstorm/blizzard/monsoon with real cold air blew in. Trees snapping, hail coming down. We thought about quitting early but stuck it out and the weather turned again to warm and sunny. Only in Montana. We caught some awesome fish though a couple of 19-20 inch cutts, and some nice bows and browns eating dries and droppers. Small black skwala’s # 10 and stonefly nymphs and SJ wormies. THe dry fly fish ate in slower flatter water but we caught most of our fish in what I call the conveyer belt. A ripple run of transition water usually on an inside turn with a killer bounce line dropping into a bucket, but you better enter the bucket right, mend it, strip, drop your rod, or you won’t get bit!!
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