labor day weekend in Montana.
After a crazy first week at The University of Montana, some fishing and a little exploring were in order. After my last class i packed up the yoda with the necessities (rods, a sleeping bag, and some beer), and made my way to my uncles place about 45 minutes west of kalispell. On the property lies a nice creek that is fed by a lake and a few springs. It's a tiny spit of water that runs through waist high grass, and it gets fished only a handful of times a year.
As i walked out into the meadow, literally hundreds of grasshoppers jumped to escape my path with each couple of steps. It was the kind of sight that just makes you smile. I rigged up a short 5x leader and hit the furthest pool on the property line. In my first 3 cast's, my personal record for biggest Brookie was Broken 3 times in 3 consecutive cast's... All i could do was laugh. I took 5 side steps up stream, made a cast...WHAM...a nice rainbow came rocketing out of the water. I took another 5 steps, and you can guess what happened next. I continued working my way up stream 5 steps at a time and the fishing didn't let up at all. Highlight of day one was a 17-19 inch brown that destroyed my fly.
the next day i had planned to head out and repeat the previous days fishing, but mother nature had other plans. it began raining at 4 am and didn't let up until the sun was dipping down. The rain was a bummer but the double rainbow that followed it was pretty amazing!
Waking up this morning and realizing it was back to school for me, I became frantic for that one last fish. After breakfast i rigged up and headed into the thick fog that had settled over the meadow. Returning to that first hole and noticing the clear lack of hoppers, I began searching through the endless boxes fly's in my back pack. After trying ants, beetles, and even a hopper with only a bite to show for it, i rigged up a single #14 green cracked back midge and made my way up stream. the fish seemed a little put off by the storm but luckily i was able to pull a couple nice fish sight nymphing. now its back to fishing the clark fork until the next couple days off.
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