hendrickson spinners have finished. just a few spinners tonight and a few single rises. last night was a fast and furious feed on spinners that I wasn't ready for (messing with a caddis fly). I finally hooked a big brown on a spinner at the mio bend (there were three or four feeding) and lost it after awhile. I thought I was using a #12 tiemco hook but later discovered that I had hastily tied on the dreaded #14 umpqua hook in my panicky state. That makes 4 big browns lost on the #14 and one landed.

Started seeing this great buck on camera on 10/5, but only pictures in the middle of the night. This evening he came out early and I was able to make a good shot with the crossbow, he just ran into the pines where he died.

LY out west 7/29 at Bighorn, 8/1 at Beaver Creek, 8/4 at Beaverhead, each for two days. Best hatches I've seen at Bighorn, pmd and black caddis. CFS at 2700, about average. 3000 last year and it was tough. Best at 2400 or less. Beaverhead and Beaver Creek were tough but caught some. Went to SLC then to Cooke City with Jake and fished Clark Fork Canyon. Unprecedented rain a few years ago blew all the organic matter out of the canyon, will take 100 years or more to recover, another consequence of global warming that nobody thinks about or even knows it happened. Managed to catch a couple of skinny, fiesty rainbows in late evening as there were a few mayflies, about 1/10,000th of what there used to be down here.

EY lake trout fishing with jason and travis smith out of rockport on lake huron, and had great trip. ended up the morning going 17-17 on lake trout and 1-3 on salmon. travis got 15-16 lb king and 3 lakers 12-15 lbs. we ended up cleaning 8 lakers and the 1 king. fun trip!

Big Bear Lake - 5/24, 5/27, and 6/8. No bluegills on beds 5/24. 35 largemouth and smallmouth on 5/27. GY caught 15 on fly rod popper, one 20". EY had 20.5" and 19" smallmouth and a 30" pike on the ned rig. EY and GY 17 nice 'gills on 6/8 and 7 nice bass.
Sage Lake 6/2. KY, NY, GY, EY 40 'gills and 2 15" bass.

Found 204 morels around here 4/26 - 5/10. Peaked on 5/4.

Saw just a few hendricksons the last two days. One rise at old dock but couldn't get a float to it. Looked like fish taking midge emergers at whirlpool, uncatchable with a hendrickson (saw two float over them not taken).

Caught 50-60 good bass on poppers this year. Best was 23" and then a few 18-19 1/2. Broke one off wrapped on the trolling motor that was big and a couple of more on and off that were big. Water was cool until after I returned from Yellowstone in mid-march and fishing was slow. Really hit it well for a few days in late March. Water temps 73-74 degrees seem ideal. Also caught many cichlids, a nice jaguar gaupote and three decent peacocks, but the peacocks weren't liking the cool water.

Lots of nocturnal deer on food plots (with sugar beets) this year. Ended up shooting tall 3 point nov 3 as I never saw nice 6 point and very nice 8 point during shooting hours.

9/9/23- EY took a nice 190# black bear with Grandpa Ernies 30.06 down on a private piece of property down near Luzerne at 50yds, recovered it on 9/10. We’re calling it thr roller coaster bear cause of the up/down/up of emotions that I went through. All in All fun hunt

Caught 32 trout on dry flies on bighorn river at 3000 cfs over 8 days late august - september. All but 3 were 16" or better, two about 20" and one 21" or better. Caught 42 last year when cfs was 2400 in four days but most were under 16" and only one 20" (but was 23"). Also, all evening fish this year and many afternoon fish last year (top three photos from last year). Only caught a couple at dark on Beaverhead last year and nothing at beaver creek last year. Only went to bighorn this year.