Monday, October 12, 2009
We made the journey “over the hill” today down into Ennis and the Madison River. The weather was supposed to be a little on the warmer side today, which it was, but we still felt the bite of winter most of the day…nothing a few layers of fleece and good gloves can’t cure. We launched at Varney Bridge and wound our way down to 8 Mile. Fishing was a little on the slow side early in the morning as the water temps still held some chill from the night before. It wasn’t long however until we started hooking fish. We stayed in the upper portion of our section for most of the day and caught fish at every run we stopped an worked. Zonkers, SJW’s, eggs, Zebra Midges, BWO’s nymphs, and October Caddis were the choice bugs of the day.
As noted in the photo above, we landed this beautiful Brown and Rainbow double early in the day. What is not noted in the photo is that we should have had three fish in the picture! We landed on fish and had her securely in the net, and I made my way over to the second angler who was already hooked up with his fish. As angler number two was just about to place his fish in the net, angler number one, who had just landed the brown, hooked up with another great trout. We had two fish in the net with a third one on and just about to join the party when it made a hard run to the middle of the river and came off. What fun!
