I just got off a morning on the upper Blackfoot and am sitting on the shady and sort of cool porch of one of my favorite friends over here on the Blackfoot. Great day but I left my camera in a friend’s car who is now halfway back to Hamilton by now. Damn it.
You can see the big storms south and east, and sure enough the radar shot just now (about 4 pm) shows some big storms rolling around out of southwest Montana and headed out across the plains. Bet Steve’s gettin’ rained on right now on the Missouri. I know the picture isn’t a very good one – if you can’t see it well on your monitor, Missoula is pretty much right in the middle of the frame.
We mainly fished PMDs early and then switched over to hoppers, beetles and ants towards midday. We had planned to be off the water by 3 to avoid the storms; this wasn’t a record setting day but we had steady action all day including some very nice fish on hoppers after noon. Not bad at all, and better than I’ve heard it’s been during the hot, dry, sun-filled days of the past few weeks.
Tomorrow looks more stormy than today – I’d be planning a morning trip if I were you…..
Tags: River - Blackfoot
