East Gallatin – 11.19.09

So on my four days off this week, I too a leisurely trip down to Gardiner Montana to visit my two favorite women. It was a nice day. Melissa did lesson plans, and I sat around and did some homework. It was good to see her on her turf, rather than when I see her in Bozeman.
The next day I took the dog on a walk, and then headed into the park, hoping that the path to West was open so I could go home via Big Sky; it was not. So I drove around a bit, but being that backtracking is my biggest pet peeve in the world, I turned around and decided to head back to Bozeman.
Upon arriving at my front door, Matt called and said that he had a loaner rod and wanted to go cast some line. Side note, Matt broke both of his fly rods, and they are currently being repaired. So he came and picked me up and we drove out Dry Creek road quite a ways and hopped into the East at a location I have never fished. Found what appeared to be a deep pool with decent flow and hammered that water until a little before dusk. No luck with the fish, tried everything from drys to streamers to small and large nymphs. I did however become extremely frustrated because my fly line is starting to bring to much water up to my guides and about every five casts I have to clean out my guides as I can’t get a cast to load at all. I think I will try cleaning the line see if I can clean it off so it doesn’t hold as much water up to the guides when I strip the line. If that doesn’t work, I believe I will have to buy some fly line, or as PJ O’Rourke calls it, the worlds most expensive clothes line.