What a weekend, from fishing the opener of the Park to floating the MO, you can always find a place to fish in Montana. Right now many rivers in Montana are off color and flowing high. Except there are always spring creeks and tail waters to be had. So I fished the world's most famous spring creek the Firehole River and the MO a tail water that fishes a lot like a big spring creek.

Fished the Firehole river off of Fountain Flat Drive near the Nez Perce picnic ground. Started off slow, had a few grabs on the soft hackle. Then about 12:30 started seeing the first emergence of BWOs. Put on a dry, and started catching fish. I ran back to the truck and grabbed my new fiber glass 3wt I built this winter. It was great, a very fun rod for the firehole. The nastier the weather the larger the hatch, which sent the fish in a feeding frenzy. You name it we had it for weather that day. I lost count of how many I caught that day, however I'm not really the counting type. I can just say it was enough to break in my new 3wt.

Here are a few pics from the Firehole:

Headed out of Bozeman on Monday around 7:00 am and dropped the boat in the MO around 10:00 a.m. Every time I fish the MO I am amazed how strong and big the fish are. I did see plenty of BWOs, however it did not get to many noses up. So the nymph rig was the setup for the day. Here are a few pics from the MO: