We had a fun threesome in the raft: Bill, Nate, and Greg. Dad and his sons.

We love family trips!

It got pretty interesting with three casting out of the boat. This added to the learning experience for sure. Of course our better fishing was when we stopped to wade different sections.

The best results were with the Delektable Mega Princes and Hurless Stones, even better behind a Chubby.

The earlier part of the day was great catching and constant action. By mid afternoon it really slowed down. We had fun and lots of entertainment. Thanks Guys!

Marty

After numerous days of abuse from Dan about my ability to row and fish; we went out on the river to see what I could actually do. Marty joined us. He was a bit chilly early in the day and warmed up as the weather did. We were unsure about the weather the days prior when we were planning this day off together but we kept with our original plan, launch the boat at 11 am. We Floated from Ruby to Varney and planned to take off whenever we were done fishing. We started off the trip throwing streamers. The browns wanted the big meat Delektable brown/yellow double screamers, and the Delektable black double screamer. The fish weren’t overly aggressive to a fast moving Streamer, if you slowed it done with smaller movements that would induce a strike. Also the Skwallas were out and the Delektable Olive Hurless size 8 and the Delektable Olive mega prince size 8 caught a lot of fish. With the water being a light green color it made it easy to see the buckets against the shallower water. Don’t be afraid to fish the smaller stuff such as 16 Delektable root beer Serengolds, and some olive Shop Vacs for caddis.

Craig

Two days of father and daughter fishing on the upper Madison. Day one consisted of floating from Raynolds Pass Bridge to Pine Butte Creek. We decided to only fish the big water out in the middle of the river where the bank anglers were in fear of wading. The rainbows and browns did the rest. The flies that we used on the Upper River were Delektables: Flashback Megaprinces in size #4, #6, #8; Flashback Olive Megaprince in size #6 and #8 and a Delektable soft hackled red worm in size #12. The bank anglers were happy catching as we floated downstream. The BWO’s were emerging all day and we suspected the bank anglers were having big fun fishing the baetis hatch.

Day two started afloat from Palisades to McAtee Bridge. Since this section of the river is open to fishing out of the boat we decided to combine some streamer fishing out of the boat and some wading using nymphs.

The pictures tell the story. I rowed and Allie pounded BIG browns and rainbows on Delektable Double Screamers in Black/Olive and Olive. The nymphs were the same as day one on the upper river wade float.

Dan