{"id":711,"date":"2009-06-11T13:04:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2009-06-11T19:52:07","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T01:52:07","slug":"fly-fishing-the-bitterroot-river-with-john-hickman-in-early-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/fly-fishing-the-bitterroot-river-with-john-hickman-in-early-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly Fishing the Bitterroot River with John Hickman in early June"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John fishes with Jack pretty regularly. John is a retired (more than once) Marine, neighbor and good friend. He is also “godfather” to our Chesapeake puppy, Freda. Yesterday we fished a stretch of the Bitterroot mainstem Jack hadn’t been down since high(est)-water. The water level was at about 3000 CFS – fairly big, but clear. John wanted Freda to come, too. In order to be safe and keep Freda in tow (or more accurately, in the boat), I got to come along as dog-sitter. I did get to catch some fish, too!<\/div>\n
We saw a LOT of wood – new wood, the big kind with green leaves – in the river. In the slideshow you will see John play a fish and I will include some photos of Freda and new “trees” in the river.<\/div>\n
If you are floating the Bitterroot while the water is fast, be sure to do your homework and have safety flotation devices. The hydraulics are dangerous and often difficult to predict. I didn’t take photos of the biggest rocks and obstructions because Jack made me put my camera away. Wise choice.<\/div>\n
Along the way, we saw herons, ducks, osprey, eagles, kingfishers, Lewis’s Woopeckers and many more small birds. Those photos are for another blog entry.<\/div>\n
We surprised a whitetail deer on a gravel bar. I loved those photos. To see them click on Merle’s Whitetail Deer photo blog<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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John fishes with Jack pretty regularly. John is a retired (more than once) Marine, neighbor and good friend. He is also “godfather” to our Chesapeake puppy, Freda. Yesterday we fished a stretch of the Bitterroot mainstem Jack hadn’t been down since high(est)-water. The water level was at about 3000 CFS – fairly big, but clear. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[173,192],"tags":[13,11,8,103,95,9,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapiti-waters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}