Big sky, Big fun, Big fish

[anonymous]

Just got back from here:

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in this town:

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woke up to this:

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Saw lots of these:

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and lots of this:

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and this:

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and these:

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and these:

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and this:

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more of these:

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alot of this:

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some more of this:

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and these:

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a little of this:

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We stayed at the Bighorn angler, rented our own boats, no guides. My crew and I were probably the only crew on the river that refused to fish bobbers and nymphs.  There were plenty of fish eating hoppers, and many that ate streamers all day.  I exclusively used Juan Ramirez’s hopper pattern- “The Hopper Juan” in pink, tan and yeller.

[Tim Pommer]

Thank you for making my morning with a beautiful report.

[Jay Hake]

I think my drift boat is attaching itself to the back of my truck without me.

[Corey Kruitbosch]

Damn nice report and fishing!

[Tim Angeli]

Awesome report, that river is a blast.

[Eric Weller]

Nice Tim, good looking fish.

[Kelly Glissmeyer]

Having fished the Horn for the first time this past spring, its fun to see places I’ve now been.

[kurt budliger]

Very nice, gotta get out there one of these days.

[Juan Ramirez]

That dang bug is everywhere I would like to be right now!   Great report and great pictures.  Five days of throwing hoppers to nice fish–too bad you had to go home.   :-[

Juan  😉

[anonymous]

Kelly, how the hell did you know about two broken sticks?

[Kelly Glissmeyer]

Kelly, how the hell did you know about two broken sticks?  Yeah, we busted my scott S3 906-3 and a Dan Bailey 9 foot 7wt.  The scott has been all over the place, and was hit with a streamer earlier this year. I knew it was a time bomb eventually.  My buddy put the wood to a major hopper taker and busted it on the set.  The dan bailey busted because of a loose ferrule.

And I broke a pair of smith glasses.

But the fishin was good!

Juan, thats an interesting perspective- the Hopper Juan is everywhere you want to be.  Thanks for the fly, and tying instructions on your blog- It was THE pattern to have, and I’m sure we were the guys that had it….Not once did that fly foul or land funny.  Its a great and easy tie.

Dave

Dave, unlike Juan, I AM everywhere I want to be, I see all and hear all.. yeah, right!

[mark s]

Great stuff dude – looks like a blast.

[Neal Osborn]

Very cool Dave.

[lawrence underwood]

Very cool.

[anonymous]

Kelly,

Oh yeah, I did mention it on the other thread.

[Adam McDowell]

Dave, looks like a great trip. the bighorn is a really underrated river by the sounds of it. maybe they need to call it the pighorn! hopper fishing is the pinnacle of trout fishing imho

[dan berger]

that made my morning, great pix, thanks for sharing

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