We just rolled into Ennis, Montana and parked the Mobile Hotel® a couple of long casts from the banks of the Madison River. It's currently raining and gusting 40+ here, plus the Madison is under "hoot owl" restrictions, so no angling after 2 PM because the heat is hard on the trout. It's nice to get a little moisture and cooler temps.
Yesterday was a designated angling day for me. Mrs. Fading Angler and The Offspring
went panning for sapphires in (surprise!) the Sapphire Mountains east of Missoula. Lest you begin seeing visions of grey beards and pickaxes, this is a
tourist trap commercial establishment that is happy to loan you equipment when you buy buckets of
dirt ore mined material to sift through. I think they had fun. Here's what happened to me on Friday, wading on Rock Creek:
- Big Horn sheep
- Brown trout
- Cutthroat trout
- Rainbow trout
- Cutbow trout (no, I was not fishing with Hank Patterson...)
- Bull trout (sadly, found deceased in the creek)
