Bitterroot Regeneration

With all of the action below Buckhouse yesterday afternoon, I decided I had to go see what the commotion was all about. Just not at the bridge, however. Monday is usually off the bike day (regeneration day) and there was no soccer practice tonight, so my bud Nick (above) and I decided to go south of town to see what was flying around.

I caught a pretty nice brown trout hanging out in water not two feet deep right along the shore. He hit a semi-skwala dark green pattern, which was as close as I could get to whatever was hatching. Pretty sure he would have hit a black bird though if I had cast one. Not a bad start for the year, though he was the only fish of the evening. I pitched a lot of different patterns, including the usual parachute adams or the stimulator with a beadhead dropper. The fish had been pretty well schooled over the weekend I believe as they were very selective and we missed numerous nice rainbows. This week is Good Friday and everything is alive. Catching that perky brown on a 4 wt SP was a ball!