Get a load of the E-13 non-flow gang, currently at a now-fishable 1,060
cfs...to wit: all of our E-13 local rivers are now shaping up nicely and
early which is a good omen for all that awaits all of us looking forward to
traveling to Extravaganzaland starting (get this!) TWO weeks from this
Saturday.
I just got back from a memorable Memorial Day weekend of fishing in Idaho
with long time Extravaganzer "Idaho Mark" Grassi where, likewise, the rivers
in the lower section of the Rocky Mountains have shaped up early (although
we awoke there yesterday morning to be adorned with fresh snow on the 8,000
ft mountain tops!).
What this all means is that each of our three groups is in for prime-time
fishing...in fact, things are so early this year that we could be fishing
all of them today!
Specifically, all 80 miles of the Bitterroot River are now fishing; the
upper sections of the Blackfoot River are now coming into their prime (with
the lower sections soon to follow) and the Clark Fork of the Columbia
(including its brand new section at its confluence with the Blackfoot River
which is now open for fishing for the first time in a century) means that
there will be plenty of bug life on the rivers come the advent and arrival
of the Wonderful Ones and the soon-to-be formerly dormant fish will be well
focused on looking upwards to our dry fly offerings. Soon, the world-famous
salmon fly hatch (a salmon-colored stone fly about the size of your little
finger) will blossom on our Rock Creek home waters--recognized as one of the
most cherished free stone blue ribbon trout streams in the world.
Bueno, bueno, bueno!!
And, as a further sign that we are getting close, today your now resident
Hostess With The Mostess and her buddy Eric the Landscaper are headed to the
Clinton nursery for their annual trek to buy more flowers than any one
parcel of property reasonably deserves to assure that you are each florally
well adorned upon your now-imminent arrival(s).
As for me, I am yet hunkered down here in Brickyard Cove for a final two
weeks of file-fishing as I prepare for my annual month-long pilgrimage to
the wonders of Mother Montana.
Getting close, now, gang...getting REALLY close!
Best to all in the effervescent emerging nearness of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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