Bob Jacklin landing a 10 lb 32” monster brown trout while fly fishing the Madison River near West Yellowstone, MT. Can you imagine?
Why We Fly Fish
Is it the ever so slim chance of catching a phenomenal trophy brown trout on a size 14 nymph like Bob Jacklin’s fish of a lifetime or it is something more? Most people I know don’t get fly fishing and can’t understand why I stand in a river for hours waving a stick only to come home empty handed. If you are reading this, you understand.
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Bob didn’t go home empty handed. He retired that old general he eased into his net and rightfully so. I don’t know how old that crimson and gold beauty was but I doubt he was long for the world and a fish like that only comes around once.
Listening to "If You Ever Get Famous"
Fly Fishing Madison River
As part of our continued coverage of fly fishing in America’s national parks we’ll be taking an in-depth look at fly fishing the Madison River and the bounty of rivers in southern Montana and Yellowstone National Park just as soon as we finish mapping the streams of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Stay tuned…
Fun Fact:
The Duke and The King, a band so named for the traveling Shakespeare hustlers in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin” floating adrift on a river of chance, recorded their debut album Nothing Gold Can Stay
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