Fishing the small drainages and lakes

With flows in most rivers still pretty high it never hurts to look into the smaller drainages that clear out fast and start slowing down long before the bigger rivers. This Rainbow, at 17 inches, came out of one of Montana’s smaller drainages this last weekend. The fish fell for a #8 BH Gold Hares Ear I was dredging a deep hole with. Bugs were moving, most notable were big Golden Stones.