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Here’s a cool video sent in by a New Clacka owner.

We fished the South Fork yesterday( my usual crew see photo below) from Husky’s to Spring Creek Bridge.  The river was around 8000 cfs and it  fished okay.  Palisades Creek was running over the top and dumping in a ton of off colored water.  River left was clear and fish-able all the way to Irwin Foot Bridge.  Rainey Creek and Fall Creek were also running mud so by the time we made Spring Creek  Bridge the river was off colored even more, but I think it would  still be fish-able.

the Crew….

We fished streamers (black was the color) all the way and was able to catch our share of nice fish.  The  photo below is Parker(rowing) after I just landed a Brown Trout around 19 inches.  As you can see he doesn’t like dad to catch the biggest fish of the day.

I wanted to leave you with one last photo.  Check out the snow on Baldy Mountain… just think what is on the back side.

Headed for Montana this week… will post more

I took the new Headhunter II out on the Henry’s Fork this weekend to battle the crowds and hopefully catch some big fish.

I still can’t get over how well this new boat holds and ferries. We watched a guide walking a boat down a bank that we had rowed back up earlier in the morning.  We could stop the boat pretty much anywhere and row back up almost everywhere (which was nice because I fished a 200 gr. sinking line for awhile and it kept getting snagged on rocks. Thanks to Don and the skiff, I only lost 1 streamer).

We were the 3rd or 4th boat down from Ora (to Vernon) on opening day. We threw nymphs and streamers in the morning and then went back up and threw dries in the afternoon.

As you can see… we had a nice day.

I need to work on my ‘picture face’.

I had a chance to visit with several of the guides (A.J., Vance, Keith and Bill) for World Cast Anglers today at the Spring Creek Boat Ramp.  As you can tell from the photo below they all like ClackaCraft’s.  The guide school was on its 4th day.  Check out World Cast at www.worldcastanglers.com.

Check out the photo’s of our new HeadHunter II skiff.  We raised the back of the boat about 6 inches, shortened the length by about 9 inches and created room for a motor. It also comes with our new walk-around rear knee brace. We are starting production on the new boat this week.

I was able to fish a few days last weekend in Montana.  I had to work the Rivers Edge demo day but was able to slip in a few hours fishing.  It started off Friday evening at Hebgen lake.  The ice was just starting to go so fishing was pretty good.  After working all day at the Rivers Edge we slipped out to fish the Lower Madison.  Armed with advice from Steve and Dan we loaded up and by 5:00 had our waders on.  A good caddis hatch along with some small golden stones.  I was able to land several nice fish on dries. However, Parker put on a Streamer (olive circus peanut) and went to work fishing every piece of pocket water he could find and he did find a few fish.

On Sunday we ended up wade fishing behind Kelly Galluops Slide Inn.  I started off with high sticking small midge patterns.  After a while I switched over to streamers because I couldn’t stand watching Parker land fish.  This time Parker was working over the fish with a Olive Zoo Cougar.

All in All it was a great weekend….

John

P.S.  Rumor has it the Salmon Flies are out on the Henry’s Fork.