THE LATEST NEWS and advice on fly fishing, fly fishing gear, fly fishing trips, and fly fishing books and media.Chasing Salmonflies on the Lower Madison
Brett French finds that he's lost his wading legs as he and a friend fish a caddis hatch -- that was supposed to be a salmonfly hatch -- in Beartrap Canyon. "Although the salmonflies never showed up, caddis were out in droves. Hundreds of them hovered over and next to bank-side brush in a cloud of brown, mottled movement. A greedy red-winged black bird sat atop a juniper tree flitting from branch to branch as it gorged on the quarter-inch-long bugs." In the Helena Independent Record.
