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Seeing as I had to take my skiff in to Ro Boats in Four Corners, Montana, about twenty minutes from the Madison, I decided it would be a good day to fish. Nate and Tony accompanied me. We dropped off my boat and picked up the loner.
First, a few words about drift boats. There is a simple axiom at play here: the more roomy and bigger the boat, the more of a beast it rows. I had harboured thoughts of exchanging my skiff the roomy Deville, a low sided drift boat with lots of room. After Rowing it for the second time, I'm convinced that for my style of fishing, the skiff is perfection. If you only fish big rivers and are well lazy, the full sizer is for you, but if you work the water hard, want to fish skinny side channels and resurc holes, I can't stress how well my skiff rows. What I give up is the snazzy looks and a bit of storage. People can stand and fish in my boat, but they don't have to. Most guides I know and respect like having their guys sit. You can get closer to the fish, your legs don't hurt at the end of the day and you don't act like a sail. I know, I know, Some people just want to stand. I stand most of the time when I'm fishing. I have knee braces and people can stand in the skiff if they want.
Back to the River. Well it fished great. Goldens and PMD's with an occasional salmonfly. Tony went strait to dry, pitching a little stimi. He hooked up almost immediately. It did not take long before we had a dozen fish in the boat. Nate Caught a beautiful 22 inch brown that came straight up to eat his golden in a mid river seam. When we stopped at an Island I was able to work a run with about 50 risers in it. They were not easy, and I never fount The bug, but I caught eight fish. They ate a small yellow sally parachute, a PMD cripple, a spotlight emerger and the larger yellow stimi.
As we pulled out of the side channel I pitched down stream into a bucket about the size of a VW Bug. I had an emerging nymph, just below a dry. There was a small subsurface swirl and I set the hook. A nice Brown rolled over and started to shake its head. I jumped out of the boat as the Brown was running up stream. Like chasing King Salmon in Alaska, I just followed the brown around, finally landing a nice 20 incher. Tony, a professional photographer took a bunch of photos and said he will send some. I'll post em when I get em.
The day was perfect and we even made it to our soccer game in Bozeman just in time.
First, a few words about drift boats. There is a simple axiom at play here: the more roomy and bigger the boat, the more of a beast it rows. I had harboured thoughts of exchanging my skiff the roomy Deville, a low sided drift boat with lots of room. After Rowing it for the second time, I'm convinced that for my style of fishing, the skiff is perfection. If you only fish big rivers and are well lazy, the full sizer is for you, but if you work the water hard, want to fish skinny side channels and resurc holes, I can't stress how well my skiff rows. What I give up is the snazzy looks and a bit of storage. People can stand and fish in my boat, but they don't have to. Most guides I know and respect like having their guys sit. You can get closer to the fish, your legs don't hurt at the end of the day and you don't act like a sail. I know, I know, Some people just want to stand. I stand most of the time when I'm fishing. I have knee braces and people can stand in the skiff if they want.
Back to the River. Well it fished great. Goldens and PMD's with an occasional salmonfly. Tony went strait to dry, pitching a little stimi. He hooked up almost immediately. It did not take long before we had a dozen fish in the boat. Nate Caught a beautiful 22 inch brown that came straight up to eat his golden in a mid river seam. When we stopped at an Island I was able to work a run with about 50 risers in it. They were not easy, and I never fount The bug, but I caught eight fish. They ate a small yellow sally parachute, a PMD cripple, a spotlight emerger and the larger yellow stimi.
As we pulled out of the side channel I pitched down stream into a bucket about the size of a VW Bug. I had an emerging nymph, just below a dry. There was a small subsurface swirl and I set the hook. A nice Brown rolled over and started to shake its head. I jumped out of the boat as the Brown was running up stream. Like chasing King Salmon in Alaska, I just followed the brown around, finally landing a nice 20 incher. Tony, a professional photographer took a bunch of photos and said he will send some. I'll post em when I get em.
The day was perfect and we even made it to our soccer game in Bozeman just in time.
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