... in 2020.

Fished a stretch of Northern Rockies freestone water that I have not been on for a couple of years. Started with a JARS and stayed with it.

Over the course of an hour and a half, hooked up thirteen fishies and landed nine of them - one mountain whitefish, three rainbows and five cutthroat.

( No steelhead today, but then again they never are in this particular stream. )

We've had an exceptionally mild winter so far here in west central Montana and northern Idaho. Decent snowpack on the Rockies, but we can use a lot more before spring actually gets here.

It won't be that long before big flies start emerging, starting with skwalas in a couple months, and then a steady stream of stoneflies and hoppers through the summer getting ready for October Caddis.

JARS is a good fly to start the year with, on streams and rivers with decent stonefly populations. It's in the FAOL FOTW archives at 12-31-12.

John