Holy Snow Storm, Batman—take a gander at the just-received first pictures of our 2015 fishing season!!
Group One veteran Brian “Moraine” Shepard is first on scene and the pictures above of his bounty on the Bitterroot River are, indeed, bountiful! We measure “big fish” in Extravaganzaland as fish over 20” in length and both of the brown trout featured above are in that category. Also, get a gander at the early season color of the cutthroat in the net (so called because of the red, slit-like marking under its mouth).
Shown in the last image above is our Double Up Outfitter John “The Great But Propaneless” Gould (so named because of his propensity over our years together to leave ashore the required propane for his portable bbq!) with a twenty inch brown trout caught by Moraine in between intervening snow storms—yes, that is standard fare for Spring in Montana!!
Snow yesterday notwithstanding, it has been unusually warm in prior weeks in western Montana, such that an early mini-runoff has resulted, yet leaving 82% of twenty year average snowpack in the Bitterroot Mountains and 94% in the Upper Clark Fork River Basin---plenty of water in them thar hills for us and good news looking ahead for E-15, all!!
If you wonder at all why we fish the fish-filled rivers of western Montana, just take a long look at Propaneless’ screenshot of the Bitterroot River…it simply doesn’t get any prettier than that!!
Best to all in the early moments of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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