Idaho Exposure

A rare shot of the author holding the one that didn’t get away. A rainbow about the same size broke the line where the tippet met the leader in a few inches of water, and headed for deep water, taking my grasshopper dry fly with him! After tying on a new leader, adding tippet, and tying another grasshopper to the end of the tippet—a project which takes me much longer than it should—I hooked into this rainbow on the first or second cast. Needless to say, I was extremely careful about landing the fish.