A big hike today in the high country and we did a six mile round trip. It took the breath out of me for a bit, but it sure was worth it. We eventually hit a section of stream with some really nice pools and caught some real outstanding cutthroat's. The trout were eager to come to the top for our dry flies and we had some spectacular eats on our fly. A very memorable day and we have about a week left for our trip.... Capt. Dan
Yesterday was spot on and we spent the day on the Idaho side. My good friend Jim came in to town and we all trekked up one of the streams, we did so well in last year. Once again, Idaho didn't disappoint us and we had 6 hours of fantastic dry fly action. We estimated over 75 trout with most of them in the 10 - 16" range, with a couple hovering around the 20" mark. Becky had big fish honors and a combination of Adams, hoppers and Madam x fly patterns were our fly's of the day... Capt. Dan
The high country road trip turned out to be good and a bit disappointing. Some of my favorite streams I've fished in the past are just running to hard, or are muddy. The one's that are running hard are very clear which is nice, but a couple days away from being fish-able. At about 9,000ft on some of the high peaks; we encountered snow packs which being a Florida boy, is pretty cool. We did find one stream just about right and my wife and I caught double digit Bonneville cutthroats in just over an hour to end the road trip... Capt. Dan
A fantastic start to our 2017 trip to Wyoming and the streams are shaping up nicely. The first couple of days we've stayed in the lower country and had really good dry fly action. The high elevation streams are still in full runoff, but we're going to give them a look today and do some exploring. Morning temperatures are in the mid 40's and nice warm afternoons. All the trout so far have been Snake River fine spotted cutthroats and Becky hooked a beauty yesterday that unfortunately got wrapped around a root ball and straightened the hook. I'll keep everyone posted on the trip and good fishing where ever you may be!!! Capt. Dan