Today Nate and I took a half day with four brand new fisherman. Although the river was up we were able to catch a bunch of fish underneath. Even though most were whitefish they got good practice and were able to tie into some trout.
In fact, Scott caught a beautiful cutthroat, a good sign. Many of Cutthroat are in tributaries spawning, but today showed me that at least a few cuts are back and ready to eat. With an early morning rain silting the river a bit, I still noticed a shape tucked under a tree close to the surface. After watching for a few moments it ate a fly. I decided what the heck, even though we were only 10 minutes into the first day of Scott's life with a fly rod we should give it a shot. I dropped anchor and tied on a size 10 parachute Adams.
I rowed back up to the tree and tried to get us in good position. On his first good cast, just as he was closing in on the fish, his son Chris made a defensive play and threw over top of his dad's line snagging it and causing it to drag. The fish turned away in the last moment. I thought We were through, but the fish just went on rising. It had tucked tight to the bank under the tree. Scott, a fireman from Ohio, showed determination and finally got the cast and mend. The fly floated drag free, and pretty as a picture, the fish rose and took the fly. Bam, good hook set and good fight.
Scott, who is a man of few words, said deadpan,"that was exciting."
Chris caught this Bow out of a foamy swirl. Again we had to let the bugs hunt and had five or six eats without any luck hooking up. But finally he hooked and landed the fish. Nate's boat caught some fish as well. When they were not catching fish Randy and Hank were catching everything else. Nate earned his pay today.
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