The Biggest Fish Ever Caught on the N. Platte River!!!

Zach with a good ol rainbow!!
Clay gettin it done!

Shawn Engberg with a big ol rainbow!! We had a blast!!!

I thought you might enjoy a picture of a true giant caught on this river. It was caught on a San Juan worm and took around 20 minutes to land. It measured over 45 inches and bottomed out a 30 lb. boga grip. No telling how much this monster really weighed. We truly experienced something amazing getting to hook and land this fish.

The calendar says middle of November but our bugs are still hatching and the fish are still coming to the top and eating them. We are getting into waterfowl hunting mode but it is hard to get away from the great top water fishing we still have. The past few trips I've done dry fly fishing has been the main focus. A friend and I went and did some wade fishing from around 9 to noon and there was still plenty of bugs on the water. The water is getting pretty cold though, temps. around the 40 degree mark so the bite is getting later. Mornings haven't been real productive until the sun gets up a ways and starts getting everything warmed up. Once it gets warmed up though the fishing has been pretty good. Streamers have been pretty slow but the nymphing has held us through until mid day when the blue wings start popping. From then on we have mainly been strictly throwing dry's. Our set-ups lately have been as such:

Nymphs: Dark leeches (brown and black) sizes 8-10
Red San Juans size 10
Rock Worms sizes 6-10
Midges sizes 18-20
BWO nymphs sizes 18-20

Dry Fly's: Blue Wing Olive size 16 with a BWO dropper size 18 and you're set.

If you are wanting to come up and enjoy some of the finest fishing around and some of the beautiful days in the forecast give me a call. The cabins have been really popular so give me some notice if you want to stay in the finest lodging on the river. Also, we've had a lot of interest for booking cabins already for next spring so if you're planning on coming get a hold of me as soon as you can.

As far as waterfowl hunts go check the calendar on the website for open days. These days are very limited. Typically Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays are the only days we hunt to ensure quality hunts for everyone throughout the week and the entire season. Hunting was real good last weekend for our opener. 26 birds were killed in a day and a half. There are a lot of birds in the area right now and are sure to be a whole lot more coming as soon as the northern birds get here. Due to a cold spring most of the farmers lost their sugar beets so were forced to plant 90 day corn so..... there is a lot of feed there. I have never seen so many picked corn fields in my life. In theory this should keep most of the geese around all season barring the start of another ice age:) There are only a couple of open days left in December but January and February are open. If you would like to experience a great goose hunt over decoys shooting birds right in your face give me a shout. I hope you all are having a wonderful year and also hope you all have a very safe a happy holiday season as it is quickly approaching. Don't forget about Cowboy Drifter clothing and /or float trip or goose hunt gift certificates for gifts this holiday season. If there's anything we can ever do for any of you please let us know. Thanks for your business. God Bless!