Take a gander at the attached three photos just received from returning Group Three veterans Brian "Moraine" and "Nicholas The Czar" Shepard who, as they do each year, ventured to Missoula for their annual Spring Sorrie to fish with our Double Up Outfitter, John "The Great But Propaneless [and, of recent, Grillless] Gould. As I mentioned to you earlier in the week, the runoff is now in full bloom in and around Missoula such that all local rivers are "blown out" (i.e., running too fast to safely drift and now the unfishable color of mocha coffee) so, as we always do in situations like this, the trio trekked over the Continental Divide to fish the Mighty Missouri River just below Holter Dam near Craig, MT (about an hour's drive north of state capitol Helena).
As is almost always is the case (what with the Might Mo averaging 5,000 trout per mile in the 18"+ range), their drive was well worth the effort as depicted, first, in Moraine's 19" gorgeous Mo rainbow and then trumped by son Czar's stunning 22" brown trout followed by his 21" "bigger bow"!
The Mo's "tailwaters" below Holter Dam are nearly always fishable, clear and serene, so long as the "W" Factor does not insert itself (that being the to-be-whispered-only word {never to be mention aloud} of [ssshhh] "wind"]!!
Bravo, bravo, bravo!!
RCR---<'///:><
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