May 8 Yellowstone River

Today was a day on the river with my dad, Jeff, pictured above with a nice brown he caught in the morning, and his fishing buddy Dr. Ray. I fish with these two a few times a year and it is always cold snowy and windy. We got all three on Friday plus some sunshine. Fishing was a bit interesting the way that it was toughest in the middle of the day when the bugs were rolling off.

I talked to other guides who had the same luck on the stretch we did. I think the fish have been pounded in the stretches close to Livingston and are reluctant to eat. But we did catch over a dozen fish. Here are photos of a few.

This one seemed to have a knock on his head and had obviously been spawning.

Dr. Ray, who played center for the grizzlies, caught this Rainbow in the late afternoon when the fishing really picked up.