Category Archives: Runners

Preparedness

September 17, 2009
IT'S COMING SOON
A Week And A Half
perfect timing
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.. After a day on the water it's just plain common sense to relax at the neighborhood watering hole. The neighbors are there. The pros are there. The visitors are there. The women are there. A cold one is mandatory.
.. Or, dullards take note, go to the vise in anticipation of the bright moon. Given the weather forecast, and the slowly cooling waters, and the increasing exuberance of the fish; a mouse or three might be in order.
.. The big fish from Hebgen Reservoir ought to hit the popular aquatic parking lots in numbers just about the time the bright moonlight revisits our skies. The timing for the Madison River this year is neigh unto perfect!
.. There is some discussion among us crazies that use this monster fly - "is it the silhouette or is it the wake?" Our cousins across the pond have settled on the wake solution and have a most un-mousy mouse. Their fly is reminiscent of the Bomber so familiar to steelhead aficionados. Can you say riffling hitch?
.. The fisher folks in New Zealand are already calling this the year of the mouse because of the population explosion of invasive mice, and the mouse eating trout down there. And they have the necropsy's to prove it.
.. There is a good crop of mice here too this year. The coyote numbers are down. The perfect spring provided both warmth and wet that yielded good forage, (the wet was hard on the baby grouse though.) And, too, the lingering salubrious weather has allowed frisky behavior among the rodent population as they expand their feeding territories, (along the river banks where grass stays greener longer and seeds mature later.).
.. In New Zealand it's the Beech Tree Seeds: here it's the grass seeds. The rodents of our meadows are feeding voraciously - so will the trout!
.. We've always used a mousy silhouette. This year we're going with all three. An English Torpedo Mouse, a Black Bomber, and a Yellow Headed Mouse. Just one at a time, mind you.
.. Now then, can fly fishers in the neighborhood forgo a night or two at the pub? We'll see.
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Ask The Experts

September 11, 2009
SWALLOWS & OSPREYS
They Tell More Than We Know
big wallpaper edition
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.. The rivers are whispering loudly. The birds tell us where to - AND - how to fish. We're out the door and back to the hole, (Baker's Hole.) The fish are just plain exuberant!
.. It's a couple weeks early - maybe more but, we're going head hunting. The big-n- ugly box is going to get a workout.
.. It's going to be a long day. The water will thrashed to a froth. We'll exhaust our self. The neighbors will giggle - unless we bag one. RUNNERS-HO!
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It’s Early But . . .

August 27, 2009
ANTICIPATION
Get Streamers Tied
listen to the worm folks
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.. A nice 22" buck Rainbow Trout was taken on a worm at the Duck Creek Highway 191 Culvert Pool yesterday. It was bright, feisty, and very colorful. It was cooked on a grill in foil with lemon, sage, and bacon grease - the flesh was on the pinkish side.
.. Bigger fish were not landed, and several were seen jumping up the little water fall debauching from the corrugated pipe.
.. Reports from the worm-tubers around the Grayling Creek Estuary highlight the catch of fish of the same class. Gulper fishers continue to comment on the bright fish of good size taken from the narrows up to the mouth of the river on the Madison Arm of Hebgen Lake.
.. So we quickly dug out the "big & ugly" boxes and took inventory. The streamer stash was also examined for completeness and diversity. The mouse collection was scrutinized for possible additions.
.. It's not quite time to expect the submarines in any number - but the anticipation of the fleet is always good for the visceral juices.
.. We mention this now, (while the fishing is still just a bit on the easy side,) so that the best excuse for a stint at the bench will be foremost in the cerebrum. Just in case anyone asks.
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