July 20, 2010 - Summer time, and the living's easy.....

First off, I'd like to humbly apologize to my faithful readers (both of you) for the hiatus this month. It's been a busy three weeks since my last post. I've been on the Madison every day. I've seen some good to great fishing, and guided some awesome folks.

After a slow start, the river has fished well for the last few weeks. Rick and George joined me for a fun day of adventure wading. We found a number of nice fish with dry flies, and only took one swim.

Thanks for another great trip guys. Thanks also to Dwight and Carter for a fun day, and to Steve and Scott for a great visit.

I joined the crew at Big Sky Anglers for a few days to fish with the boys from Omaha. They arrived in style and fished the Madison for a few days out of the Old Kirby Place. Thanks guys, I hope you had as much fun as we did.

It took a little while for our evening caddis fishing to get fired up this year. But, once we got some hot weather it was on. I've had some terrific evening floats over the last two weeks. Howard and Stephen from IF joined me this past week. We had a fun float, fishing dry flies from ramp to ramp. Stephen fooled this big brown on a small midge. Thanks, guys. Sorry you had to see P-Man with his shirt off....

Dillon and Greg, John and Greg, and the rest of the folks I've fished with in the last few weeks, Thanks for some great times. We'll try to get some photos next time.

As the summer chugs right along I look forward to a few more weeks of good dry fly fishing on the Madison. Gulpers have begun gulperig on Hebgen. And, soon it will be time to head into the back country.

Stay Tuned...