The Dark Night

Dates: August 1, 2008
Location: Great Lawn
Air temp: mid 60s
Water temp: ???
Hatches: mice
Fish landed: 3 or 4 browns


Present members of the Fly Anglers Guild :|: Upper Midwest Chapter, for this outing were:

Xan
TP


Trout fishing has been few and far between since Montana. The weather has been hot and humid, so freaks like TP have spent the time chasing giant suckers. He claims they fight like hell, take you to your backing, yadda, yadda, yadda... But they are still suckers. He has slightly redeemed himself by landing a sweet Muskie, but only slightly.

It was time to return to the trout, under the stars and the new moon. We hiked way up the river to runs that TP felt would be productive. As the last bits of sunlight were fading across the valley, I got some nymphing in. Through cleaning the river bottom of much vegetation, I was able to land a decent 15" brown.

Soon, night took over, and it was mousing time. TP started to get some action and landed a trout or two. As we made our way down, most areas were active with trout, and we started to land them here and there. No huge fish were caught, but it was still a lot better than the last time I had night fished this area.

As the night wore on, I started to lose energy. TP decided to fish one last run, but lost his mouse in a tree on his first cast, and that was the end of our session. As night fishing goes, it was fairly productive, but Walter still eludes us...