Little Family time for the 4th!

Yesterday I took out my sister and my brother-n-law. I am not positive, but I think it was the first time I've taken MK fishing! Lewis and I have fished together several times, including a banner day last fall. Anyway we stuck around here and went down river a bit. Fishing was good. Mk came out of the gate smoking. She smacked several pretty browns and and a few rainbows. Lewis did great as well and closer to the end of the morning he landed this great rainbow!

Foam, rubber legs, and explosive strikes

A couple of days ago I got the chance to take my dad fishing. After Hays and I had such a killer day on the White fishing hoppers, I wanted to share a piece of the pie with my dad. After all, for years he dragged me up that way and guided me into all my fish as a youth. It was awesome...borderline silly..he landed at least 25 browns and one rainbow...The cookie cutter fish was 17 or 18 inches with several larger and of course several smaller...The action was killer.  It was really cool to get to watch my dad have such a great time throwing big dries...

Steve

The other day I did a group trip with Tony. We had some clients that fish with Jamie Rouse Fly Fishing often. I had Steve and Spence in my boat. The water was great. We had  a good flow and got an early start to beat the heat..I would say the boys landed close to 90 fish from 6 am until noon. We didn't land any monsters but we sure did have some fun! Life is good on the Little Red!

hopper time

The summer heat is not all bad...One of my favorite things about being on that cold river during the middle of the summer is the terrestrial fun. There is nothing better than watching trout come up to the surface and do back flips for big nasty foam flies...The other day my buddy Hays and I got the chance to go out and fish together..Here are a couple of pics from our trip!

Ole Ray!

The past two days Tony and I guided a group of guys on some morning fly fishing trips. We have been getting started early to beat the heat and the fishing has been great. Once the sun gets up high the bite has been slowing down but until mid day its on fire...I bet this morning we had landed close to 45 fish by 9:00am. I have not been out in the afternoon in the past few days but the midge bite, right before dark has also been off the hook! Ray caught this fish that taped at 21 1/2 inches on a hare's ear variation. Hoppers should start picking off some fish with more consistency as the summer goes on!

Brad's fine fish!

Not to long ago I got to take out my buddy Brad for some fishing...You may remember the post...anyways we had a killer day and had tons of fun fishing all sorts of techniques. Brad landed this fish swinging soft hackles off of a drop off. He also took this picture of one of the fish from that day...I just had to post a shot of it because the photography was so sweet!

Noble Gulledge

Last week I got the chance to fish with some great people. Noble Gulledge and his grandson joined me for the three days trout fishing on the Little Red. We tried to cover and see several different parts of the river and catch fish on different techniques. The guys did great. Noble works for Orvis in Texas and his grandson fished mostly for bass on the fly on his Texas home waters. The guys caught tons of fish. We saw some deer, and eagle. A few nice browns and of course broke off some thumpers but at least there is always next time!

SUZIE!

Last weekend I got the chance to guide my good friends Mike and Suzie Bowen. Mike and Suzie have fished with me all up and down the river and seen high and low water. Last week the river was extremely low and we decided to go fish a stretch that we hadn't fished together...As usual Suzie put the funk on the fish! Mike got him a few and does what he does best...enjoys life! Its always a pleasure to fish with these two..

Jake and Jordan

So I'm a little behind on posts but I just wanted to give ya'll an update and let you know the fishing is good. We are currently not getting a lot of generation and the fish can be picky. With a stealthy approach there are plenty of fish to be caught! This was two brothers I guided last week Jake and Jordan. The guys lit them up fishing soft hackles. Dead drifting them was the ticket with a nice swing at the end!

An evening Dry Fly bite

So one day last week after I got home from a guide trip I wrangled up Amy to go out for an evening float. The fish had been going crazy on midges late in the evenings and I wanted her to get a few on dry's. Unfortunately, the fish were not going bonkers but we did find a pod or two of rising fish and scrapped out a bakers dozen or so on the surface and several more just under the surface in the film. The weather was nice, the company was great, and as always Life is Good on the River!