Missouri River Float Trip

A big river, is the Missouri...

Sizable brown and rainbow trout reside there...
Dry flies ruled this day...

Our guide Brian put us onto some good but somewhat difficult fish. Long casts and feeding the whole fly line into the drift was required. The windy conditions did not help matters either. All this casting did, of course, lead to me burying a caddis parachute past the barb into my loevely wife's upper arm. Brian saved the day with an expert hook extrication.

The browns were by far the larger fish, but the rainbows made up for their smaller stature with plenty of jumps, 2-3 feet out of the water.

Fished spent and CDC caddis pretty much all day. During the early afternoon doldrums we tried a San Juan Worm and a caddis pupae under a Thingamabobber. Didn't even get a bump subsurface.

Managed to land a few on my own on Saturday and Monday evenings. Finding spots suitable for wade fishing was rather difficult.