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Thanks Warren. Sucks about your vehicle.

Yeah, it sucked for about an hour. When all was said and done and I was
driving back home, I just had to laugh about it though. Things like
that make fishing trips memorable.

Your fish are much more active than those on my local waters. I think
that's because of the flows you get. My home river has very low flows in
the Winter and although there has been some open water due to our
warmish Winter, the fish are holed up with only the occasional fish out
feeding. We usually need to start getting some increase in flows, even
small ones, before any of the fish start moving. That usually happens by
the end of the month. Then shortly after the BWO's start.

I haven't been fishing very much lately due to other obligations. I
think I just happened to get there at the right time. The fly shops had
been telling me that the fishing didn't start picking up until around
noon when the water was warmed up so I timed my outing for that time.
The fishing got tough and very slow at the end which could have been
because the water temps dropped. It did get pretty damn cold.

On the way back from work today I took some pics of the area. I can't
promise much in terms of quality since it was snowing a little and we
were moving, but here are a couple.

The $100 fishing car before "window extraction":
http://home.earthlink.net/~troutbum_mt/DSCN2175.jpg

The drive along the Gallatin:
http://home.earthlink.net/~troutbum_mt/DSCN2210.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~troutbum_mt/DSCN2213.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~troutbum_mt/DSCN2217a.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~troutbum_mt/DSCN2221.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~troutbum_mt/DSCN2227.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~troutbum_mt/DSCN2239.jpg
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