Kootenai River float pleases fly fishers

FISHING — Wise anglers keep diaries of their fishing trips in log books with dates so they can look back for water conditions, hatches, lure-fly selection and other details that might help them next time around.

Last year at this time, Mike Berube of the Spokane Fly Fishers filed this report after floating and fishing the Kootenai River:

Oct. 13, 2013:  Kootenai River

• Put in at Troy, Mont., city park.
• Took out at Yakk River Campground.
• Float-fishing time: 5 hours.
• Weather: O vercast most of the day and about 45 degrees.
• Fishing was slow but we all caught fish. Brown trout in the picture fell victim to an olive woolhead sculpin on an intermediate sink-tip line. Rainbows also were sipping dries in the riffles.
• Comments: One of us found out the importance of a dry bag and extra clothes.  Not me!