Hair Hackle Wet Flies again

Me my buddy and his 20 year old son
drifted through the head of the Salmon Fly hatch
on the Yellowstone yesterday. Clumps of stoneflies as big
as man's thumb hung from the willows like bunches of
grapes; big fat females dropped their eggs in the water
and then fluttered helplessly on the surface until fat lazy cutthroats
drifted slowly up to the surface and sucked them in, without
so much as a splash.

A stiff downstream wind made it hard to cast, hard to row
and it blew us 8 miles down to the takeout way too soon.
But the fishing was very good. We didn't catch any big fish.
But we caught way to many to count. We caught cutthroats,
rainbows a few browns and just shy of billion white fish.
We had a blast.

I fished a homemade foam salmon fly adult
with a hair hackle wet fly dropper. We all fished that way,
except Steve and Burt used Prince Nymphs, red body Copper
Johns and I'm not sure what all as droppers. I was the only
one using Hair Hackle wet flies--and everybody noticed they
were the flies of the day. These classic (by Montana Standards)
wet flies are still as good as it gets. The water was still a
little off color, so I used a 3x dropper tippet, attached to
a Lady Might, and that one wet fly lasted all day long. It's
still attached the rod.
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