Rainy week thwarts the best laid fishing plans

The wet, but needed, rainy weather of the past week really threw a tailing loop into my last weekend’s fishing plans. Plan A was a 3-day trip to Craig, gorging on BBQ and bidding on Silent Auction items Saturday at Caddis Festival, then throwing streamers for couple of days on the Mo.

Last year’s trip to the Caddis Festival was a muddy bust.  Literal on the muddy part. Always fun to hang around other fly fishermen but everyone was so bundled up in the rain, the town looked like a raingear test site.

We watched bobbers for awhile near the dam and we cast a few streamers downstream but it was hard to have fun while getting soaked.

We were a bit surprised by a fresh layer of snow the next morning.  I’d tried to sneak one more trip out of some old tires on the moho.

So, Sunday morning we ate breakfast and headed back over the Continental Divide.

Been there, done Caddis Festival in the rain.  Not again this year.

Plan B was jumping on the fledgling salmonfly hatch on Rock Creek.

Word was out the monster flies were hatching near the confluence of the Clark Fork.

Not many, just enough to get excited.

We figured if the dry fly fishing in the lower river were slow, we could float some sections upstream, before the crowds arrive in the next few weeks.

This plan stayed viable until I checked the www.kingfisherflyshop.com website Friday morning and noted not only was the Rock rockin’ and rollin’, it was muddied from rain.

Check two more items off my ToDo List.