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August is forest fire
season. Unfortunately this summer fires
started earlier than August in the Yellowstone
area due to the hot dry conditions. Gary Eckman and I floated the Moose to Wilson section
of the Snake River under a smoke blurred Grand
Teton Mountain Range. Although the smoke
certainly takes its toll on our lungs and the rest of our environment, it
hardly affects the trout. If it affects
them at all, in my opinion it’s in a positive way because it acts as cloud
cover, something almost all fish love.
As usual, we started early
and beat the guide traffic down the Snake.
The only other boat we saw all day was a couple old friends of mine that
put in as we were pushing off. And in
the first ten minutes of fishing this morning Gary and I proved the fish might
like the haze of smoke. Every where you
would expect a Snake River cutthroat to ambush your streamer, there was
one.
Many of today’s cuttys were
special too. Heck, their all special, but
we caught several of the most vibrantly colored Snake River cutts I’ve ever seen.
This one in particular was more yellowish than the normal gold. And his solid orange fins and pulsating pink
cheeks – he was unreal! If Snake River
Cutthroats were sea run, this is what I’d imagine them to look like. I don’t paint many fish for myself but you
may see this one in my portfolio next time you see me at The Fly Fishing Show.
We caught some huge
cutthroats as well. Any day you catch a Snake River cutthroat longer than 18 inches it’s a great
day. Today, I kid you not; we caught
about five big boys. Fishing on the
Snake was flat out awesome!
See ya at quake currier. Haha joe Martinez and his wife invited me to go fish with them up there for the next couple of days. Don't catch all the fish before we get there!
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Nice. Remember, we Curriers are dangerous on those fishes. Just back from the HF Ranch. Some nice fish!
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