Last Saturday morning I found myself headed South again. Back to the North Fork of the White River. My favorite river to fish. It was a wonderful day to be on the river with perfect weather. If anything it was a little hot but I am not complaining. It was warm enough that I wasn't bothered that I had turned my breathable waders into a model with water based foot cooling. Luckily the leak isn't bad enough to fill the waders completely up, but it looks like it is time to research wader repair.
The day on the river started off great. I had hooked four and brought to hand three small rainbows in the first twenty minutes right in front of the campground at Sunburst Ranch. After that things really cooled off. The first four hook ups came on a gray hare's ear nymph but as soon as Brian Wise rolled through with a couple of clients in his boat and another two in a drift boat piloted by Kyle Kosovich the fish shut down and wouldn't touch my hare's ear. I might also add that only a matter of two minutes or less after I pulled a decent sized bow out of a little tail out pool and started working my way up the island that one of Brian's clients had a take in the very same pool I had just disturbed. Really, I am no where near good enough to do that, that's why I moved on up along the side of the island. Obviously that's why he is a guide and I am not!
I did manage to bring to hand nine more trout through the rest of the day though. nothing too note or picture worthy though aside from the little brown pictured above. I am 100% convinced that it is a true stream born wild trout. Sure it isn't big but who else can say that their first NFoW brown trout was a wild one? It was the icing on my cake that's for sure. And although it wasn't THE Happy Ending (although maybe his offspring) it was my own happy ending. The brown, along with a couple others came on the green circus caddis pictured. The rest of my fish (including a abnormally large number of rough fish that were caught) came on a copper john hot spot.
After a great day on the water the patriarch of Sunburst Ranch gave a VIP of the yet to open Dead Drift Fly Shop and fixed me up with a couple of stickers, which I was glad they had due to their awesome logo. To purchase a sticker or two is enough of a reason to visit but ss Justin phrased it the Dead Drift Fly Shop "will have everything an angler needs to fish". I also laid eyes on some very quality flies that were tied by locales that are proven patterns that are river specific and even some homebrew patterns that knock 'em dead on the NFoW. And, on top of that the shop sits a half hearted toss of a stone from the water! Everyone should pay a visit to the Dead Drift Fly Shop, you will be glad you did.
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