Originally Posted by Smed1065 (Post 17740912)

Kinda have to brag since with my brother. https://thumbnails-photos.amazon.com...=A7POPJY9GD6KWhttps://thumbnails-photos.amazon.com/v1/thumbnail/RxywwQDrTEyC4qXqH1WUlQ?viewBox=780%2C1040&ownerId=A7POPJY9GD6KW

Originally Posted by loochy (Post 17741368)

I'm currently in Hamilton, Montana fishing the Bitterroot River.

I got some nice rainbows yesterday, including an 18 and 20 incher

https://i.imgur.com/swMECtI.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/oEPsrLr.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/ReLQqiG.jpeg

Today I went upstream and got into some nice sized cutties.

https://i.imgur.com/7H24hJN.jpeg

I have 2 more days of fishing. Let's see what else I get into

Originally Posted by Megatron96 (Post 17743183)

Big fan of the Bitterroot. Which fork or what area did you fish?

Originally Posted by loochy (Post 17743653)

Day 1 was a float trip on the main river north of Hamilton. Day 2 started on the main river south of Darby, then I drove up to the west fork for the evening. The best day was day 3 on the east fork. The fly shop guy told me about a way to access some great water through a cattle ranch. It was was awesome...riffle run pool, about 30 feet wide, through open meadow with lots of casting room, and zero fishermen.

Originally Posted by Megatron96 (Post 17743676)

Yeah, I figured out the first one from the pic when I looked again. Been through there before.


That east fork bit, you have to park near a small overpass? Walk upstream maybe be 2-3 miles to a private property fence strung across the stream?

Originally Posted by loochy (Post 17743694)

You actually turn left right before the bridge on the main road and take a small road back, thwn you take a dirt road to a tiny bridge. Right there is miles fishable water all the way east.

Originally Posted by NewChief (Post 6545939)

With a fly rod? The only saltwater fish I've caught with a flyrod are all upper panhandle fish like specks, redfish, ladyfish, and mackeral. Out of those, I think redfish are the most fun due to having to stalk them and being able to sight fish to actively feeding fish. But hell, really a school of -any- kind of saltwater fish is a lot of fun... nothing like a bunch of bluefish busting bait.

I've caught just about everything in the salt on conventional tackle, because my parents were -very- into saltwater fishing when I was growing up. I caught my first sailfish when I was in 5th grade. Dolphin/dorado are hard to beat, though. So much fun, and such good eating. I'd love to go bonefishing, though I'm not sure I'm a good enough caster to do it justice. I'd really, really like to fish for one of these babies, though (fishing buddy of mine in the pic):
http://www.mcflyshop.com/images/reports/papagallo.jpg

If you've never seen people target these bad boys, it's pretty awesome:
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Catching a tarpon is also on my list.

Originally Posted by frozenchief (Post 17743741)

Tarpon on a fly is a life-changing experience.

Originally Posted by philfree (Post 17744342)

The neighbor lady was out in the backyard trying to get her dogs to go in and of all things she finds a fish. She's like what in the world! Then as she disposes of the fish she looks up one of her dogs as another fish in his mouth. Before it's over she finds 4 dead fish with the heads eaten off in her backyard. I looked around my back yard and found no fish and our backyards are almost the same backyard. They have an iron fence a small dog can squeeze through so it's not much of a barrier but the fish were only in her yard. There is no real body of water close to our houses so this is a weird mystery of where the fish came from. ?