Jake managed to relieve himself from household duties yesterday afternoon, as did I (the boss was taking a nap and watching Casablanca).
It was the last day for 2009 Montana fishing licenses to be in effect and needed to be spent at least in part on a river. Winter still controls the upper half of the Gallatin, though the lower Madison environs have shed most of their snow and you can even imagine the earliest hint of green beginning to color the hillsides. Greycliff access was amazingly vacant of fishers; there was only one raft rig shuttled and parked.
Fishing and catching were nice – shirtsleeve nymphing on the last day of February with temps pushing 50 is an afternoon well spent in anyone’s book.
Northbound in the Big Sky – I’d rather be fishing.
Tags: River - Madison
