This is the first fish caught on this rod...

There were a couple older gentlemen on the river fishing with spin rods. They didn't have much for stream etiquette (they kept coming up and casting into the section of stream I was fishing in directly above me)but one of the guys took this picture for me...

This was a very odd fish. When it rose to the fly, I thought it was a BIG fish, in the large teens. But when I finally landed it (it took a very long time because it kept running on me)I was suprise ho short and stubby it was.


A helicopter kept flying overhead. I guess it was dumping water on this fire.

I had a great time and ended up catching over forty fish. I was having so much fun, I ended up going into town to eat lunch and buy more flies and went back and caught more fish. Most of the fish were 8-10", but a few broke the 12" mark. Of coarse I threw them all back to get bigger. I like catching fish, but don't care for messing with them once I can see how big they are. My favorite thing is when I get them up to me and then they release themselves. I don't even have to touch them, which decreases the chance of them dieing.
