Western Fly Fishing Trip
Posted By Kent Klewein on August 2, 2009
Photo By: Louis Cahill
Well we’re finally back from our fly fishing trip out west. We ended up fishing several different streams and rivers throughout Wyoming and Montana. The trip was all about adapting our fly fishing tactics to ensure successful fishing. I’ll never make the mistake again to only pack dries for the majority of my flies. We’ve been traveling out there every year for quite a while now, and generally we never even have to break out our nymph or streamer boxes. This trip, however, proved otherwise with high water conditions on almost every stream and river we wet a boot in. The heavy rains the week before and unusually warm temperatures had runoff pumping huge amounts of water into the watersheds.
Despite our hardships Brad Wayne, Louis Cahill, and I did overcome the tough fishing conditions on our trip, and we all landed some dandy trout. Our biggest trout landed was a CutBow that measured 24 inches, and our biggest brown trout measured 22 inches. Louis Cahill documented the trip capturing around 65 gigabytes of photos. We’ll be posting photos when he gets them edited. We’ve decided to post a series on the blog for each fishing day of the trip. We welcome you to comment and check them out as we put them up over the next couple of weeks.
I’ll be adding some fishing stories as well as some hilarious situations we encountered during our travels. All I can say for now is “Don’t ever count out Georgia Boys” 
Hope everyone is doing well, and we look forward to hitting our home waters again soon.
Keep it Reel,
Capt. Kent Klewein Reel Job Fishing, LLC
So whats the deal with the uhaul?
Jamie,
Let’s just say we were expecting to have a tow package on our 4X4 rental SUV. There was one car available in Jackson for rent with a tow package, but they wanted to charge us $670 a day to rent it! Louis came up with the Uhaul idea which ended up costing us $29 a day and 59 cents a mile.
As far as I can tell know one out their had seen that done before
Man can’t wait for those pics, did you get to any of the places me you and Jared went years ago… around Glacier or yellowstone at all?
Chris,
I’m dying to see the pictures from the trip too man. Louis has been slammed and still is in the process of editing the photos. I should hopefully have some photos to post by this weekend.
As far as where we fished in Montana, no we didn’t visit any of those places you, Jared, and I went to. We did some stillwater fishing on Hylite Lake for cruising cutties, which was awesome. Then we floated the upper Madison River outside of Enise. Tough day but we landed 5 trout in the 17-19 inch range. A few big boys spit the hook as well. My buddy Bob Meade and guide was kind enough to show us around and let us crash at his place. When I mean a tough day I mean casting in 30mph winds all day. Really fun rowing though
Kent