One thing you know, is you never know. Well, that was our situation for yesterday's trip as we ventured to the headwaters of another high mountain stream. This stream eventually reaches the Green River and from our fishing location, we were over 50 miles from it. Saturday felt like a typical December day at home after a cold front with a overcast chilly 45 deg day. The weather didn't stop us and we put on the fly vest and hit the stream. Some fine brook trout, Colorado cutthroats and a beautiful surprise rainbow trout filled out our day. Becky was once again the one with the hot rod as she hooked in to the rainbow "which isn't supposed to be in this stream". She fought beautifully, took some great pictures and released her quickly. Another great day in Wyoming and we're down to 10 days to go... Capt. Dan
The absolute best day we've experience in the five years we've been fishing Wyoming. My wife, good friend Jim and I made a 2 hour drive to a high altitude mountain stream towards the Wind River range. We arrived at the stream and several caddis and mayfly hatches were occurring. We each tied on some small sized imaginations in the 16 to 18 range and it was the ticket. On this day we landed several trout over 20" and the majority of them we're in the 12" and larger range. Targeting foam pockets on the top side of pools were the ticket for these real large fish. A unbelievable day and here's Becky with a beautiful fine spotted cutthroat... Capt. Dan
Another update from Wyoming and the dry fly trout fishing continues to be outstanding. We recently made a 180 mile round trip trek to some high elevation streams and caught some really beautiful Colorado cutthroat trout and brook trout. We experienced a full change in weather from blue skies and sunshine, rain and hail. The trout didn't seen to mind as they were aggressively attacking our elk hair caddis with abandon. The size of the fish were quality, averaging 12" - 15". I'll check back in in a couple days and here's my large Colorado cutthroat from Tuesday's trip... Capt. Dan
A really fantastic start to this years Wyoming trip, other than loosing a day to Wednesdays United airlines computer mess. All is good though and the fishing and weather has been great. Low morning temperature in the 40"s make for a pleasant change from the back home 90 degree heat. The cutthroat trout have been cooperating nicely to elk hair caddis dry flies, as well as #10 madam X's. We've had a bit of on and off rain, but not enough to muddy the streams so they are not fish-able. I'll keep you posted on the coming days and thank you as always for checking in. Here's a close up of my wife Becky's first Snake River fine spotted cutthroat trout of the trip... Capt. Dan