This rainy day story is about fishing...what else? Once again something significant happened in our summer. The good friends that visited earlier during the Salmon Fly Hatch returned for an early August fishing trip. Typically, August in the Bitterroot Montana, is the time of year when you would or should, rather, be swimming in the river, golfing, eating ice cream at a picnic or whatever not fishing. But...this August day was different. A rare low pressure system bringing a cold front from CALIFORNIA dropped the temperatures from one day to the next by 20 degrees accompanied by rain showers and overcast skies. The rain truly did not hit until later in the day say after 6:00, but the overcast and sprinkles were a consents the entire day.
The day before we chose to gamble with the heat. The Wally the Anglers stretch had not seen much pressure the last few day on account of the heat... dah. Well I think we gambleed to a draw that day. That is to say that we had our chances at some really big fish and also hook a couple of them. So the rumor was that rain was on its way. Ya right. We decide to hit he West Fork of course were else is someone supposed to fish in August?
A funny thing happen the August though, you may have heard lately, the economy! Well I will make a long story short. There is no one on the river! Seriously, we saw two other boats, and they were chauffeur boats. My friends, we had the entire river. Take that back there was one boat in front of us that we saw at Appleberry, but we did not see him the rest of day and better yet he was fishing streamers all day. Sure his client may have caught some big fish, but he did not see them come up to eat on top.
We saw a few on top that day in the rain!
