Monster Brown Trout

I finished this past week of guiding with a couple of days on the Snake below South Park bridge, all the way down to the West Table ramp. The fishing has really turned on down there. The water is still a little high at over 5,000 cfs, but the clarity is great. Small fish are around in the mornings on a variety of dry fly attractors, and the afternoons are seeing bigger fish on larger dry flies including the old standby: the chernobyl ant. The South Fork is still nymphing well, with dry fly fishing improving as the water temperature starts to rise. PMD's in the riffles, and dry attractors close to the banks. The Green is still dropping and clearing, with great dry fly fishing. As we move into August, look for better fishing in the mornings on the Green; the hot, bright conditions are not favorable for those large browns. I spent yesterday fishing on my day off with good buddy Stan Czarniak. We floated the North Fork of No Tell Creek and absolutely hammered brown trout on streamers. The cloud cover we woke up to stayed all day and really helped the fishing. Here is Stan with one of the largest fish I have seen in my boat in a very long time. This brown ate a black Sex Dungeon in deep, slow water. We measured him at just over 24" and estimated the fish to be between 5 and 6 pounds. Nice fish Stan! Can't wait to do it again. Coming soon: the opening of Flat Creek on the National Elk Refuge...see you there August 1st.