Bighorn River - Fort Smith Montana

[flyfishmt]

The wife and I went over to the Bighorn last Friday and had a great day of fishing. The weather was marginal, but we dressed up for it and it wasn't too bad.

We floated from Afterbay to Three Mile stoppong along the way to fish several riffles and runs. There were two other drift boats on the river and we only saw four other wade fishermen.

We used a two fly set up with San Juan worms, orange scuds or pink sow bugs as the point fly and various midge patterns as our droppers.

Fishing was real consistent throughout the day, which kept us from thinking too much about the cold. The fish of the day was a 22" brown. This pics is of a smaller brown also caught that day.



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[PaulM]

We also had good luck on the river last week. Seems like scuds were the pattern of the day. I tried a few new midge patterns, but the fish didn't seem interested.