Pat Barnes Scud
I was rummaging through some old 35mm slides this morning, and found these.
The first is Pat Barnes Scud--a marabou streamer Pat called the scud partly because a scud is a cloud, and he thought this fly looked like one. And also just to be contrary. Which was a big part about Pat and who he was. He really did like being ornery contrary and cantankerous. The three most important pieces of fishing equipment, he used do say, where rod, reel flybox and paying customer. Saying three and listing four was part of the deal.
The second photo shows Pat releasing a nice 18" male brown at the Hardy rapids on the Missouri. There is a spring that dribbles into the river there where the raccoons like to clean and eat crayfish. There was and still is a pile of crayfish bodies 2-3" high and four feet in diameter there. Pat pointed it out to me. Told me that crawfish pile had been there for as long as he could remember. Actually it has been washed away by high water a few times, since I first started watching it. But the crayfish bodies don't take long to reappear. Right where Pat caught this fish.
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