The famous Madison winds were blowing Saturday in the lower canyon and yes, it was a chilly one. Sunday, we hit snow, which has more of a warming, insulating effect, and we were pretty comfortable. But dressed for it, too.
-- Gary Meyers Kirkland > 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 > >
