I was out in Montana fishing with a few friends, one of whom is Gary Borger. Gary taught me to fly fish 31 years ago and we have been friends ever since. My trip and Gary's crossed for a couple of days.
I know that our trip timing crossed with the Montana Fish In but I was never able to get to the Campfire Lodge to look up the FAOL'rs
You can catch Gary's blog on our trip at:
http://www.garyborger.com/2012/07/16...g-the-madison/
We stayed at the Greenlee "guest lodge" just above the Raynold's Pass Bridge.
The fishing god's gave us a great the day before Gary arrived. Both Gene and I landed trout numbering in the high teens. A storm blew in on Gary's first fishing day with use
Here are a few photos:
We hiked upstream with fog rising from the Madison:
Here is Gary taking photos of a fish. Gene and I call this the Glory Run for the huge fish that spooled Gene several years ago. Then the next day, I took first cast in the same pool and the same fish spooled me. We never saw the fish but having caught 20 inch fish in this area before, we figure the fish was north of 2 feet.
Gary casting :
Gary at the Colonel's Pool:
The Three Amigos:
Two fish that fell for my sunken ant. I was fishing a dry ant with a sunken dropper ant. Both fish passed on the dry ant and took the sunken ant.
A twig I snagged with Hydropsychidae (net builders) caddis larvae:
Gene with a nice brown
Hope you all had some time to fish as well and I look forward to the report from the FAOL Montana 2012 Fish In.