Today I began my summer road trip.  My first stop is the Columbia River in Castlegar, British Columbia. I fished with Chris Dawson (a fly fishing author) who is also a Guide with Dave Brown Outfitters of http://www.davebrownoutfitters.com

This is an enormous river with strong currents which grows very powerful rainbows, actually a steelhead holdover from before the building of all the dams on the Columbia in Washington.  It was extremely hot during my trip but I still managed several very nice fish on hoppers and caddis.  This is an amazing place to sight fish to pods of cruising rainbows.

The first fish is a 21" rainbow, the 2nd a 15" rainbow and the third a 23" hog.







I'll be posting more photos as I continue my travels through Missoula Montana, Bozeman Montana, Livingston Montana, Cameron Montana, Jackson Hole Wyoming and finally the SOuth Fork of the SNake in Idaho.