So I have been derilict in my blogging duties, no excuses other than busy life. So the fishing has been pretty good in fact very good at the old haunts. Of course I am sworn to secretcy on location of our fishing haunts, suffice to say, hold it! hold it! almost devulged it there but all I can say it’s called John’s A Hole…. there is no B hole so we’ll leave it at that….New toys; got myself a new rod, it’s a bamboo troutspey. In fact it’s a James Reid rod and it’s a 4 wt. James is a craftsman and his rods are not only beautiful but they fish great. So look him up at  http://www.jmreidbamboo.com/.  I hooked that up that rod to  a beautiful Saracione Skagit 3 3/4″- 1 5/32″ reel. The other fat bastard Robert Fat Bastard “2” and one of the original founders of the Fat Bastards got some new toys also, a sweet bamboo single handed Orvis old school and a Bob Mieser 2 wt Spey, new school. I’ll take some pictures soon of the toys for the next blog. So back to fishing, I will let some of the pictures speak.
Some notes on the photos, mostly taken by John, Fat Bastard #4 and Robert. The big fat brown in the net was courtesy of Wye (honorary Fat Bastard who is not so Fat) photo by Etsuko. That porker was caught in P.E.I. early summer (can’t tell the location). The rest of the photoed fish were caught in the spring & early summer. Early mornings and early evening fishing during the hot summer days, propelled Robert & John to the  hammocks for the obligatory post lunch afternoon nap which lasted more than a proper nap time should what can you expect for old guys. In fact we all got one and once all three of us will set up we will look like a bunch of bananas hanging from trees. The naps of course  are due to Marlene’s cakes and Jane’s banana breads.
Bruce  (Fat Bastard #3) was not able to fish much with us, many family events happened, his daugther got married (nice) and other stuff like barn and deck building along with the mandatory swearing at squirrels and keeping  Mrs. Bruce happy (wink, wink, say no more). She’ll probably kill me! He did fish a couple of times mostly in the early spring for landlocks. Missed many and yelled many times. Expecting to fish the autumn run!
July was not good very hot and low water, fishing in late August will pick up it’s been raining much here for the last few days so the rivers will fill up again in time for some good late summer fishing and the anticipation of the landlock salmon is in the air.
That’s it for now, will be back sooner rather than later, maybe more pictures and some editing.
Along with the Nelon’s Spring creek we  fished the Armstrong & the DuPuy spring creeks. We also fished the Firehole River & the Beaver Medaows in the Yellowstone.
Fat Bastards & Curmudgeons 