Quote Originally Posted by LadyFisher View Post
And what were they eating? And the fly too please?
Fished upstream from this spot today to avoid the crowd - a nice old fellow from Jackson WY who beat me to the parking area by about two minutes and who was headed downstream, and a younger fellow who was working his way up to this point from below.

But I had a bunch of water to work with the same hatch - mixed midge and bwo - that we had Monday.

I tied on the most elegant fly in my box. It was designed for the midge activity on this river. Today it took about 17 of the 27 or so rainbows I hooked, regardless if the major player in the hatch at any point in time was a bwo or a midge.

The bows were bigger in the section I fished today. Only a couple under 14" and six or seven over 17". The biggest, about 20", took the elegant fly.

It is the t.c.t.k. ( fly of the week third quarter '07 ).

This fly outfishes anything in my fly box on the Big Lost. And does very well elsewhere, also. Its a "less is more" kind of thing.