Your favorite streamside photo

[TroutHunter814]

Here’s two of my many favorites..

 

[6xAdams(Jones)]

Not exactly streamside, but sometimes it’s not only the fish that you’re after.

All these are beautiful. I don't know if it's shading, focus or what, but the width of that fly rod makes it look very heavy - or she's tiny by comparison.

 

[mt_flyfisher]

All these are beautiful. I don't know if it's shading, focus or what, but the width of that fly rod makes it look very heavy - or she's tiny by comparison.

If you look closely you’ll see she actually has 2 fly rods. Plus don’t forget that in Montana you sometimes need heavier wt rods for the bigger trout you might expect to catch. 😃

Like this brown that a friend of mine caught in this very small stream.

Or better still, this one that another friend caught in a small stream that dozens of fishermen pass over every day, headed to the larger, better known places.

 

[6xAdams(Jones)]

If you look closely you’ll see she actually has 2 fly rods. Plus don’t forget that in Montana you sometimes need heavier wt rods for the bigger trout you might expect to catch. 😃

Thanks for the explanation.
While very nice, your photo provides no answer to my girl's eventual question... "What color were her eyes?" 🙂

 

[wildtrout2]

If you look closely you’ll see she actually has 2 fly rods.

I thought I saw her carrying two rods and wondered if it's a hassle, especially if she's covering a lot of stream?

 

[TCWNY]

 

[mt_flyfisher]

Thanks for the explanation.
While very nice, your photo provides no answer to my girl's eventual question... "What color were her eyes?" 🙂

Guess.

Hint: Why it could be called Big…?.. Sky Country.

 

[laszlo]

Two seasons

 

[TCWNY]

Same season lol

 

[Jay_H]

Two seasons

I know that spot.

 

[MJMFlyfisher]

This is a picture I took with my phone of a print hanging on my wall so it's probably losing a little in the translation.
1995, Me in the Madison River, MT trying not to get swept away while nymphing that center seam above $3 Bridge.
This photo was in the 1996 Orvis catalog.

I met Andy Anderson (well known fly fishing photographer back in the day) on the water that evening, he sat and watched me land several trout and also take a sweet faceplant into the water!.... and he approached me asking if I would help with a photoshoot.
When I figured out who he was and that it was legit (and this wasn't gonna be porn ,or worse), I modelled for an hour. 😂
He tried all sorts of different "poses", casting, nymphing etc but I was using a dull gray fly line at the time and it wasn't showing up in his viewfinder. (This was film camera days LOL)
So we had to settle for the old rod under the arm, looking in my flybox, pose.
He had 2 cameras on tripods and one handheld and ran through 3-4 rolls of film.....man I wish I had those rolls too.

I gave up the last hour or so of a really good day of fishing but have that signed print he mailed me 6 months later to remember it.
I also rounded up a couple copies of the Orvis catalog it was in.

And from standing in that fast water for over an hour both my legs cramped up completely and at the same time on my late night drive back through Yellowstone park!
Hard to drive a manual 1985 Subaru wagon with no legs....stalled my car and rolled out onto the pavement in the pitch black. I can still remember laying on the cool pavement with seized up hamstrings thinking. "WOW that's a lot of stars!"
And I better move before a bison steps on me.

Lots of memories wrapped up in one dang picture!

 

[Chronicflytying]

 

[wildtrout2]

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Boy, that just looks fishy!

 

[Swattie87]

some catches from same place

I’ve been catching Browns in there…Got a nice one at the base of the double falls in your first pic. All I caught that day was Browns matter of fact.

 

[wildtrout2]

It was huge. I wish I would have taken a better picture, add something to give it some scale. But it’s still one of my favorite streamside photos. Its trunk was as big as a tree. That’s not a small hemlock behind it. The vine was way bigger around than say a five gallon bucket. I can’t imagine what it must have weighed. It was impressive and unique. I think it’s neat to think this vine might have had grapes that fed some Native Americans or possibly someone when we were still a British colony. Pre 1776.

~5footfenwick

I thought you took a great pic of that vine. What a rare find.

 

[The_Sasquatch]

Bremen, Germany.

No, didn't get to fish it.

 

[5footfenwick]

I thought you took a great pic of that vine. What a rare find.

Hey thanks. I could tell a thunderstorm was coming in and I was far from the car. So I figured it was time for a lunch break. Walked over towards that hemlock to hopefully have a little break from the impending rain and there it was. It looked surreal, like a movie prop from Jurassic park or something. I thought this is worth a couple photos. I didn’t realize how rare it was until I got home and started trying to google one that was bigger.

 

[mt_flyfisher]

Bremen, Germany.

No, didn't get to fish it.

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Your picture reminded me of this one. Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany

I didn’t get to fish there either. However, I did have a Rauchbier (2, actually) at the Schlenkerla. Almost as good as fishing.

 

[wildtrout2]

Hey thanks. I could tell a thunderstorm was coming in and I was far from the car. So I figured it was time for a lunch break. Walked over towards that hemlock to hopefully have a little break from the impending rain and there it was. It looked surreal, like a movie prop from Jurassic park or something. I thought this is worth a couple photos. I didn’t realize how rare it was until I got home and started trying to google one that was bigger.

I've been hanging one of my trail cams on this grape vine for about 15 years now. It's the biggest I've ever seen, but it's not even in the same ballpark as the one you posted. 🙂

 

[FollowTheBlueLines]

From 2 weeks ago in the Smokies on one of the most gorgeous brook trout streams I’ve fished.

And the first southern strain brook trout I caught out of it.