End of Year – East Gallatin 02.28.10

Yesterday was the official last day of the 09-10 fishing season. March 1st is the day when I have to go buy another license. I must say, this was a great year of fishing, and Matt and I ended the year with a pretty decent day.

We headed to the East and jumped in around Penwell and went down river. The fishing started extremely slow, and there appeared to be an excessive amount of dead baby deer on this stretch of the river, a scene I have never seen before. I am not sure if it was coyotes/wolves, harsh winter or itchy trigger fingers, either way it was definitely a sight. As I said the fishing was slow at first, but later in the afternoon Matt and I each got a few bends in the rods, in water that we were really surprised to find fish, as it was fairly low and fairly fast. We found no fish in deep slow moving water along the big banks, only in the thigh deep riffles.

The only downer of the day was that Matt lost a fly box with about 100 flys or so.

update After we left, Matt went home and stewed on the lost fly box. He decided the best course of action was to head back to the river and search for the box, which at almost dusk and searching for a small fly box on the amount of water we covered seemed ridiculous. Well he went all the way to where we fished, didn’t find anything and decided to go along this little side channel on his way back to the car and BAM found his fly box submerged in the water. Pretty amazing if you ask me. Told him that he needs to write his name and phone number on his boxes just in case this happens again.

Here is a pic of Matt with a little rainbow.