It is a rainy day in the mountains, a day when most of us "mountaineers" hunker down, stay warm and dry. Several years ago, our son and I were on a fishing trip in Montana. Livingston holds some of the most beautiful trout, blue ribbon trout streams and incredible scenery. We had fished the Yellowstone River a couple of days when the weather turn on us…cold, rain turning to snow, windy…they called them "micro climates." To us, it was just miserable.
When I saw our guide, I told him that Chad and I were thinking of bagging it on that day. It was just not how we wanted to spend the day. Our guide, a student at Montana State in Bozeman, looked me square in the eye in disbelief. I said, "What's the matter?" With a straight face he looked back at me and said, "Trout gotta' eat!" In other words…trout don't know it's cold and raining…they see a fly drifting in front of them and they instinctively attack it.
The painting above is a recent commission, "Toe River Bow." Lee McAlister knows…trout gotta' eat!
When I saw our guide, I told him that Chad and I were thinking of bagging it on that day. It was just not how we wanted to spend the day. Our guide, a student at Montana State in Bozeman, looked me square in the eye in disbelief. I said, "What's the matter?" With a straight face he looked back at me and said, "Trout gotta' eat!" In other words…trout don't know it's cold and raining…they see a fly drifting in front of them and they instinctively attack it.
The painting above is a recent commission, "Toe River Bow." Lee McAlister knows…trout gotta' eat!
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