If you've been following the news, you know we've been having more than our share of miserable weather in the South. The problem isn't so much the snow, though that is certainly an issue in a region unprepared to deal with frozen precipitation. It's the constant rain that's been getting people down, and this has been going on for several months now.One consequence is that I indulged in a little escape this morning, remembering a bit of fishing I did last summer in Montana and Idaho. Places where it wasn't raining. Places with lovely cutthroat trout, like the Montana beauty above that I took on a dry fly with a Temple Fork Outfitters Signature Series 3-weight rod, an Islander IR3 reel and a Jim Teeny WF-3-F line.
And there was opening day in Idaho when I fished with Denise Maxwell and Rick Williams. I did quite well nymphing for rainbows with a Temple Fork TiCr 5-weight rod, a TFO Prism reel and a matching Jim Teeny WF-5-F line. Many of the fish, like this rainbow that Rick caught, appeared to have just finished spawning, so they were definitely hungry.
