Nice report. Makes me want to crank up the pickup and head east. I'll bet it was colder than a well diggers backside though.
Jim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 10:46 PM 11/11/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Flew to Bozeman for business Friday. Took my 15-year-old son along as he had >a 4-day school weekend. Got done with business Friday afternoon, rented an >old Suburban, and made a beeline for Ennis. > >Fished the lower Madison Saturday (below Bear Trap) and the upper Madison >(near Hegben Lake) Sunday. > >The brown trout are on the move. > >If you like the chance to hook (a few) large browns, streamer fishing, and >cold, threatening weather, this is the time and place. We worked real hard >to bring a half-dozen brutes to the net in two days. 20-23 inch pigs, >bright orange bellies, hand-wide from the butt through the shoulders. I also >caught one big 'bow that hurled itself out of the water and up into the air >against a backdrop of a Montana snowstorm, then stripped line off my reel at >will. (No whirling disease in that fish). > >Best of all, we saw seven total fishermen on the entire Madison. > >It ain't matching the hatch, but it's dramatic and primal. I love it. > >Gary Meyers >Kirkland
