Group One Mo Report

As shown above, the Mighty Ones fished the Mighty Mo for their first two days of fishing, posting nine (count’ em!) twenty plus inch beauties to our E-17 Twenty Inch Board.  After two bussing days, the Ones are fishing their final day in local waters to regional rain with Demetry “The Ghost” Kondrascheff leading the pack with his 21 ¼” (yes, quarter inches matter here folks!) brown, joined by fellow twenty inchers Craig “El Senor Feo” Benjamin, Scott “Crack” McAdams, rookie Judy “Principal” Colton and, get this, FOUR entries from second yearer Joe “Great Wall” Arnao, the largest being his 21” first day brown (see, a quarter inch is a BIG thing around here!).

 

Each of the Ones’ first two days started out both briskly and early with 4:45 a.m. house departures to meet their Tucker Transportation motor coach for a 2 ½ hour trek over the Continental Divide to fish the Mighty Missouri River out of Craig, Montana (a “drinking town with a fishing problem”!).  The trip(s) though exhausting were well worth the invested time as the weather on The Mo was absolutely perfect with matching fishing conditions.  Evening boat reports were replete with stories of wildlife encountered (including pelicans, mink, magpies, eagles, osprey, muskrats, beaver, geese, antelope, deer and, yes, even one sighting by “Kayak Mary” Von Kerrebrook of a rabbit swimming the Mo, as seen from here water level kayak!) and marvelous fish encounters of the first encounter.  Browns and rainbows were the species of delight to all, well almost all as a few (even including yours truly on Day One) pitching no hitters, with the average fish takes being in the 10-20 fish range and the average size being in the 18” category.

 

Rookies and veterans alike were taken aback with the abject beauty of The Mo’s surrounding rock formations, the clarity of its waters and the bounty of its fishing largess, averaging over 5,000 trout per river mile.  Hats off to our Double Up Outfitter John “The Great But Propaneless” (and on both of his days partially lunchless) Gould for expertly coordinating all of our 18 fishing boats (that would be 9 each day) and assuring that our fifteenth Extravaganza continued in its pattern of safety and frivolity.

 

As the Wonderful Ones are now wont to say, “May The Mo Be With Y’all”!!

 

Rock Creek Ron

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