May 1st Yellowstone River

It's dry fly season, people. I floated from Pine Creek to Carters on the Yellowstone with clients Asa and Steve in search of our slippery little salmonoid buddies. The day started off with Steve stick'n a nice little brownie on a dead drifted bugger within the first fifteen minutes of the float. As we all know, catching a fish right away could either jinx you or it's a good sign of things to come. Well, fortunately it was a good sign. With the exception of a few fish here and there, the majority of the day was quite slow. There was no sign of bug life until about 3:00 when a few Baetis began to pop, but we didn't see but maybe two fish feed until 5:00. Game on. When the clock hit five bells it was like a switch was flipped and the feeding began. We found large pods of fish eating BWO's in the back eddys like it was their job.....I guess it is their job if you think about it.

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