Posted by Bob on January 20, 2010

When the forecast calls for 50-degree weather in January the thought of heading for the bighorn surpassed all other temptation. So with gear and the boat loaded we headed that way. Almost instantly it proved to be a wise decision when bishop within 2 or 3 cast hooked into a nice brown. Although we fought a stiff breeze for the fist hour or two, the day proved to be a good one, the water temp was a seasonally “warm” 40 degrees making the fish a bit sluggish but all that was needed to remedy that was a slowed retrieval. Black woolly buggers were the ticket with a bit of weight to make them more castable in the wind and slapped on the water as close to the bank as possible. Once freed of the “oar duty” orocketman didn’t waste much time in hooking into a few nice browns of his own including the biggest fish of the day, as is usually the case! Up at the front of the boat (Shawna Osborne) decided to try nymphing for the first half of the trip but with less than satisfactory results having being skunked, but she would have her revenge for after switching to a black bugger with a bit of flash in it she was the only one bringing in the fish at the end of the day. The totals at the end of the day were around thirty trout to the boat and about twice that amount of hits and misses but of course all smiles. All in all it was a great day and a bit above average even after considering that a bad day of fishing still beats the hell out of a great day at work!

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