After driving along and by the great Gallatin River, even rafting it last summer, it was time to see what that beautiful stream had to offer for fishermen.
After arriving at a pullout not too far downstream from the Big Sky stoplight, the gear rolled out of the back of the car in great quantities; vests, waders, poles, reels, pocket knives, zingers, flies, reading glasses, polarized sunglasses, hats, and other flyfishing accoutrements too numerous to mention. Jamie Shumway took the prize, however, as the guy with the most toys (see photo). If this trend continues til his death, he wins!
In fact, Jamie's toys must have helped b/c he landed the first two fish; nice wild Gallatin River rainbows. The rest of us saw rises and had strikes but no lucky strikes.
After lunch, we headed further downstream, and I found a spot to wade across (very strong current! It was a near dunking...). But that gave me access to a couple of pools that were not easy to reach from the near side. I happened upon the right fly for the day (PMD) and landed 3 nice rainbows myself, making sure Colin was witness so it would not be treated as one just so fish story... Unfortunately, no pics of these fish, and they were all caught and released. But the other photos shows us heading off to the stream. We look fairly eager, eh?
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