Gros Ventre River - Teton national park - Monster Cutthroat Trout - early July 2013

I got to spend a few days fishing on the Gros Ventre River with Mike and his roommate Nat. This soon became one of my favorite rivers in Jackson Hole. On my first day, as I drifted a high foam salmon fly down a rapid an enormous fish came out from under a dead tree and grabbed it. The fishing pretty much continued that way all day long. We were only limited by the sunset.

The big fish were holding right up against the shore in small pockets in the bank, the perfect cast was just inches from the shore and dead drifted down along the bank, each time I managed to keep the fly our of the overhanging brush I got a big hit. without a net with me I had to follow at least one fish down the river into water I couldn't wade and it finally broke my line.