Wind River Canyon

My good friend John Holland and I left town Friday night for Thermopolis Wyoming, to fish the Wind River Canyon with Darren Calhoun on Saturday. It's quite possibly one of the greatest brown trout streams in the lower forty-eight. I try to get over there a couple of times a year with Rachael or John. The river was a little higher than we would have liked...3000 cfs out of Boysen Reservoir. Typically by mid-June, the cicada hatch is popping and the river is about half that flow. Since it has been so cold, the hatch has not started yet and the downstream irrigating demands are keeping the river higher. The fishing was a little tough, but we still managed to wrangle in some nice browns on streamers and large drys. It was a great day. For more info on this incredible fishery, please click on the link for Wind River Canyon Fishing, and also check out issue 8 of This is Fly. The article Conversations With the Wind was co-written by myself and Darren Calhoun.