THE LAST DAY on THE ELK and it was DRY FLIES and STREAMERS

Jim and Scott had to leave and so Ellen and I had the camp to ourselves on and off with the two young men bitten with the fly bug.  I would go to a small stream and fish the 12# flavs and egg head streamer while Ellen stayed in Fernie to grab a shower and try a Tim Hortons.

I found a likely pool, tied on a large Mayfly.  No takers until I downsized to 5x and ginked the bug to bounce. Cast the bug with good accuracy on my slow actioned IM6 Winston Tom Morgan Favorite 4 wt and boom the monster came up so quick it hooked himself.  The 4 wt was under gunned and took more angling than normal but the action gave me control over the runs.  Four more cast and four more cutties all in excess of seventeen inch. I need a change and maybe there lurked a bull deep in the pool.

I tied on an Alaskan egg head and........20 inches later, the pool's grand daddy but no Bully's here

Sadly, It was time to head south maybe the snows had come to Ennis, Montana and killed the fires.