Continuing our series on BWO strategies….

One of the best tips my fishing mentor gave me several years ago, after being frustrated chasing Tricos and Pseudos on the Missouri, was to learn to fish the backeddies well. 

Think about it - backeddies are like a rotating buffet table for trout, circulating all sorts of interesting bugs around and around. 

It takes some thought and practice, and a good wiggle or pile cast can provide the time you need to present a small fly cleanly.  Does it work all the time - heck no, but every season it gets a little easier and a few more fish come to hand….

It’s hard to see in the pic, but the eddy on the downstream side of the log yielded a small rainbow on the Firehole this past Wednesday….

Editor addendum - this note was posted this afternoon originally stating that a cutt was pulled off the eddy - Mike M. from Pocatello kindly pointed out that it had to be a rainbow, there are no cutts above the cascade - he’s right - Ok, that was our first mistake that hour today…..

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