Keeping Good Company

Signing the Adipose Wall of Fame is the ritual when purchasing a new boat from the great team at Adipose. Recently the crew from Montana Wild picked up there new ride and figured they wanted to be near the other most famous signers on the door.

Just a little humor to start your Tuesday morning out.

 Most importantly if you do not follow the blog and travelings of Zach an and his brother, these two live the life of hunting and fishing the west . In addition, they are excellent videographers and make fantastic fishing and hunting video shorts. Music, story lines, scenery are unparalleled, the photography is amazing. check them out.

Teaching Old Dogs New Casts

While others might have been out fishing the high country, or floating some of the

waters that are finally coming down , or just having a picnic with the family today.

Mrs. Floatfisher and I thought we would send a fun filled 8 hours in the sun being humbled

and taught the finer skills of Spey Casting by Simon Gawesworth .

 The South Platte in downtown Denver would prove to be an excellent training

ground, with flows that would rival most steelhead rivers. It would give us the perfect

currents to practice our Roll Casts, Snap T's, Single Spey's, Double Spey's and Switch Casts.

 With only 6 students, each would have ample opportunity to be scolded and throttled

like a newly arrived cadet in boot camp. Holy shit, 6 hours of casting and couples hours of classroom

Instruction will plain wear your ass out. 

 Here Simon, works with this "special"student, I think I finally got it after  

couple of smacks to the back of the head. 

All kidding aside, what a fantastic class, more practice while we are floating the Missouri, 

and Colorado this summer, so we are in tune and ready for the Deschutes in September.

Don't want to make a spectacle out of myself.(or anymore of one)

Would highly recommend Simon's class to anyone who needs a touch up or knows nothing about the 

art of casting a two handed rod. He is very patient, and an excellent teacher.

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I foresee two weeks of this action in our future, nuttin' but boat unloading, dragging

rowing, fishing, tying knots, little AC/ DC and snoop Dogg to get the blood pumping in the morning.

Let's get it on. If your not out fishing you are stale and old. Get a Life.

Fly boxes are jam packed with every imaginable pattern, if we don't have,

we know where to buy more and pack more fly boxes full. Liquor, well as you would

guess, we have that covered too, fully stocked traveling saloon. 

 Next stop, at couple of rivers to bend a few new rods in the quiver.

yippee que yah , MF......

Falling into Perfect Shape

After a great flush some of our great river sheds are rounding into perfect summer shape, by the time Ms. Floatfisher and I return from rivers far away, our home waters will be in perfect shape.

We look forward to the season know as " silly season" , that short window of time, right after high water, where every fishing in the river is on the feedbag and willing to eat dry flies, especially big

foam gaudy ones.

Arkansas River at Wellsville

The Ark is at 3200 and change and dropping nicely give it another week, it will be still high but really nice for the floating angler, pounding the edges with some large golden stones.

The Colorado is also just a week or so away from being ready, flows are really dropping fast, with the width of this river to disperse the flow, and the flush, there should be some spectacular summer fishing on hand soon. Are you ready.... I am.

Rio Grande River 

Probably pretty damn close , would like to be down there if we did not have a spey casting class 

to attend. Although still slightly high and in the willows, streamers and the nymph rig would wrangle a few, not far away from some green drakes starting to show up.