Getting there...

    The bugs are showing up in greater numbers, the rivers clearing and the fish are starting to look up, but it hasn't gone off yet.  We bribed a local guide with beer down at the Claim Jumper Saloon last night.  The word is that the bugs come off whenever they want and you just have to be on the river everyday.  So that's what we're doing.
    We floated Varney Bridge to Ennis today.  I stuck a fat brown today on a brown girdle bug and after a considerable struggle he came to Kevin who was manning the net.  Kevin was a bit confused because I'd been nymphing for most of the day and a large sofa pillow was sticking out of the fish's mouth.  The mystery was solved when we pulled the fish from the net and found the girdle bug in the other corner of the fish's mouth.   Apparently another angler's day didn't work out so well.
     Kevin landed a rainbow to match the brown, by working a back slough that the majority of fishermen were ignoring.  This fish also took a girdle bug.

Bugs Attack!

    

   Tomorrow- Storey Ditch to Ennis and maybe a bath in the river.  I haven't had a shower since Friday.  The waitresses have quit smiling when we walk in and the river dog's quit stopping by camp for a pat on the head. Might be a sign.