Henry's Fork

Brady and I went on our first fishing trip down the river in a drift boat yesterday.  We left the house around 3:30 and stopped at a convenience store for "provisions" before hitting the road to Ashton.  We put in at the Ora Bridge just after 5 p.m. and took out at the Vernon Bridge.

The wind was blowing ferociously, so we stayed next to the edge looking for wind blocks.  Maybe because of the wind we had the river to ourselves-not another person in sight for the entire evening.  We found a few pod of rising fish.  At first we threw caddis for there was plenty of adults in the air.  Yet, no luck.  While changing flies, a PMD flew into my box so I decided to tie one on.  It turns out the fish were feeding on very small PMD's.  I brought one to the boat, a small rainbow.  Brady is getting very good casting from the boat, now we just need to work on getting a drag free drift.  Little does he know he'll be working on that for the rest of his life.

We got off the water just after 9 p.m. as the sun was setting.  We had a beautiful ride home looking at the sunset on Tetons.