Late July Photo Essay

I had a busy yet very content streak of guide trips with great clients. Of course, fishing & catching (or taking pictures) are the most important part and we did well in variety of waters. To me, that's the whole purpose of being an outfitter - to discuss with clients and find what's out there and which water will be fishing well for our objectives. What a rewarding job I've got😁❗❗

I may insert some details here and there but mainly let pictures do the talking👉

First, before clients' arrivals, I went scouting "Below the Lake" of Yellowstone River right after the opening day. This is a rare catch.....💬

So many insects were hatching during Yellowstone River float😎 See how many kinds of insects in this stomach sample from one trout😲

Gallatin in YNP section was very interesting as well. Typically a nymphing river during the morning, however the stomach sample showed us PMD hatch had been very strong and trout had been gorging😲

Westslope😆

This client hauled in one after the other by his Euro Nymphing method😏

This was very hefty😎

Among PMD..............Green Drake😏

PMD were hatching in very good numbers😀

I headed to the other part of YNP with next group of clients.

Now we got our usual species😏

Back to float trip, in spite of winds during the first few hours of the float, we had actions on our dry-flies. We ended up fishing with ONLY dry-flies all day and got great actions all through😎😏

What trout were feeding.........so what will be hatching 😏

I've never taken photos of this bird - well still turning its back on me😓

Father & Son and then guide teamwork👏👍

We then challenged DePuy's Spring Creek.

The famous PMD hatches still offer us some reliable dry-fly fishing and then afternoon terrestrial fishing🐛🐜 is getting really HOT🔥

Immediately after I headed to the even more challenging piece of water - Below the Lake again😐

In the afternoon we hit Slough Creek below campground. He was holding a spot for us😃

Summer goes on😬
See you along the stream somewhere in Montana and Yellowstone Park👋