Snow Day.

6-11-08 BIG HOLE LODGE, WISE RIVER, MONTANA: For weather fans, we had four inches of snow on the grass this morning. It was again below freezing and windy. There was a general reluctance to go fishing, but they took us to lower [in altitude] sections of the Big Hole River. There was no snow, no rain, less cold and less wind.

I fished with Bill Sweeney for a short day. We quit at 3:30. We each got a few in the boat and lost a few. At one point, we had simultaneous hits, a double, and both lost them five seconds later.

We inadvertently disturbed a nesting merganser who flew around the boat feigning injury to draw us away from her eggs.

By evening, the snow was gone.


Not my idea of mid-June.

Merganser lets us get fairly close to draw us away from the kids.