Bright Skies Today
Whenever I'm driving up the mountain and the sky is bright blue without a cloud in the sky, I know it's going to be a day of spooking lots of trout. Those wild browns can see an angler coming to them from a long way, so days like this are usually pretty slow. And it was just that today. Oh, it did cloud up later in the afternoon, but too late to help us out with the catching part of fly fishing. My buddy Neal was with me, and we both knew the fishing wasn't likely to be landing lots of fish today. However, the outdoors was in its full glory up at high altitude where we were fishing. Three things made the day pretty special for me: Bull elk were bugling from behind the tree line most of the day while we were floating a dry fly. Their music made the day pretty special. Watching trout do their sexy dance was a lot of fun too. Yeah, it's spawning season for the brown trout in this beautiful setting, and they didn't even know they were putting on a show for us. For sur...
