The best catch

[mems]

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This is my new grandson Levi, He is my first grandchild and is very cute.
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I got to visit him and his Mom and my son-in-law is Spokane Washington.
We got to do some fishing in Montana the week before and had a good time with the cool weather.
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I had a good time on the West fork of the Bitteroot. It had some nice sized butts and browns.
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We had good fun on the smaller feeder creeks. My wife got into the action as well.
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They were loaded with small cutties. I got some cool underwater shots.
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It is good fun to fish the small creeks with the TFO 1/2 wt rod.
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We went over to Rock creek fro a couple of days and had fun with the browns, cutts and rainbows there.
We stayed at fisherman's mercantile, great affordable place.
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Then we headed over to Spokane to visit the grand kid and Dean from Spokane flyfishers took us out for a day on the north fork CLA. It was a gorgeous stream with crystal clear water and willing cutties.
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My wife Joy got into the action and enjoyed the feisty cutts.
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Dean was a great host and I owe him a bonefishing trip when he gets out here to Hawaii.
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It was a great trip with lots of nice fish but the best catch was my grandson Levi. Mems.
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[Mark Kranhold]

Congratulations on becoming a grandpa, Don! Levi is a cutie and what fun you will have teaching him the skills of fly fishing in the years to come! Looked like a epic trip as well! Cheers to you and your family.....congrats!! Mark

[Randy Lee]

Don,
Was at Rock Creek many moons ago. Loved that quaint stream. What a carmed life! As Dan would say good on you mate.
Thanks for sharing.
Randy

[Bill Kiene semi-retired]

Finally fished Rock Creek in July of 2014 with David Armocido.

It was my finest walk and wading, trout stream dry fly day ever.

[Darian]

Congrats on becoming a grandpa!! Great photos of Levi. He's a looker. Your photos show lots of good fishing up that way. I've never been up there. Another place on the bucket list. :cool:

[Bob G]

Mems -

One of the absolutely best posts ever. Thank you for sharing.

Levi is glorious!

Bob

[SeanO]

Congrats, mems.

Good trip, good family addition.

[John Sv]

This is why I come to this message Board. Thank you!

[mems]

Thanks guys for all the positive comments. Having a grand kid has me psyched for trips with him in the future. I love trout fishing, and I think he will too.

[Darian]

Aloha Don,.... When he's old enough you can teach him to surf, too. He's one lucky grandkid. :cool:

[PV_Premier]

great report and great photos! congrats on the new addition to your family!

[TyV]

Congrats Mems! Nice trip report as well. Got a couple of days on upper Rock Creek early July...my first. What a creek. The forks of the CDA look like something I should have hit on the way out or back as well. I was pretty limited with a 1 and 4 year old in tow lol. Congrats on your grandson again.

[mems]

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Aloha Fish on, yes the north fork of the CDA is very beautiful and an under fished stream. Gin clear water, it reminds me of Kelly creek, except much easier to access.
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[TyV]

Thanks for sharing once again! I will for sure be making the stop up that way the next time through. Did you happen to notice if there were many unimproved or other places to camp up there? Also, did you head up from the Kingston exit? Even this little bit of info would be extremely helpful when heading through...which is usually how it ends up for me lol. If I could plan to stop and fish the afternoon and evening...camp and head on up the road that would be great.

Cheers

Fish_ON

Ty

[mems]

Hey Ty, we got of 90 at kingston. There had been fires up there and they closed the road. So we just stopped and fished down towards the campground. It was low water so we just hit good looking deeper runs. One spot was loaded with fish rising and we fished there in the evening. It saved the day for my wife, she got 5 in 10 minutes. My friend Dean said it was better on up the road. You could camp and hit it all day long. Hope this helps. Next time I might float the spokane. I didn't get over to Rocky Ford or Crabcreek. Maybe next time, hard to go other places with montana so close by.