we're down on the south fork today it's getting into autumn and we have a a rare treat today uh
on the rock right here in front of me are little nymphal shucks of a certain kind of stone fly
that hatches only at this time of year down here you can see there's a big gravel bar behind me
there's a lot of big gravel bars out here on this stretch as the water drops and exposes these rocks
these stone flies hatch these are a special uh smaller golden stone fly they're actually
kind of gray in color and they're what we call a mutant they don't have wings
so that makes for great dry fly fishing out here because since they can't fly they just skitter
across the surface and drive trout absolutely nuts so we're gonna have the opportunity today to
tuck a big rubber-legged dry fly into these fast banks and these flats and all over
and twitch it and skitter it around a lot and get these fish up to eat it we just came through the
first little stretch of bank from the put in we've gone a few hundred yards and we've had
like a dozen fish take the dry fly already so uh this is only gonna get better come on let's roll
there you go that's it so they'll come at it on the twitch then it stops and they catch it
right they see it skitter they come start coming you stop it they eat it
but in this situation just fish it right right there maybe a little twitches maybe
but try and give it a little drift in between the skidders you know that's cause that's when they're
gonna catch it and eat it gotcha they'll swatted it while it's moving but they'll probably miss it
let's go in there a little closer and just do the same thing just go in deep scatter it out
good i mean you're you're waiting long enough i feel like before you go
you're doing it hard there you go cuddy nice cutthroat there you go i think you're doing
it right mark i'd say you're doing it just fine i'm sliding here an anchor up a little slow eat
first cut-throat of the day classic cuddy real slow see this grass right
here came right off this grass yeah he's living in there he's tucked right in here
just like on the teton flatwater we've got a double double dry on here
because these fish are totally zoned in on these on these uh
mutant stones
god they just don't quit just amazing such a fun fun fishery when you can take fish
regularly on a day like today on dry's it doesn't get any better than this it really
see good trick huh yeah good job nice cuddy it's a nice fish what a fantastic animal dandy
whoa i feel his head shakes i mean i got him in the lips
okay i'm gonna i'm gonna bump down i'm gonna stay moving right i'm gonna stay along this bank i
don't want to get this this log right here in our way so i'm not gonna put us over the lumber yard
when you come down here looks like the bottom's all clear right here
man that is a giant brown trailer okay i'm gonna back up an anchor
and i'm gonna jump out and run down there it's like he just rolled up in it just then
that's a big rainbow it is big cut bow nice nice nice nice oh get out and take a look at this guy
hey look at this one this is a big fish man look at that thing that is a special fish that is a
specimen that's what that is so this is a hybrid cut bow you can tell that by a couple things uh
first of all they have they'll often have a little blotch on their belly like this big girl's got a
little yellow dot right here the other way you can tell is if if you push on their tongue a little
they'll have a little red hot orange in there you see that yeah all right man let's let her go
what a fish what a fish huh thrill look at that thing all right here you go girl there we go
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