Summer vacation time and many will be out fishing for pleasure.
Here is a good fish story from the blue ribbon trout streams of Montana,
an article in my morning local paper.

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Fly fisherman catches record trout in Madison River

By TED SULLIVAN, Chronicle Staff Writer

Bob Jacklin saw his fluorescent orange strike indicator twitch, reared back and knew he was into a lunker.
The fish was heavy, tightening his fly line and bowing his rod.

When it rolled on the surface, he couldn't believe his eyes.
"His head looked like an alligator," Jacklin said Friday.
Jacklin landed the 30-inch, 10-pound brown trout in the Madison River near Cabin Creek last week.
And it's likely a Madison River record.

Jacklin, 61, of West Yellowstone, had been fishing for about an hour in a riffle, standing in about two feet of water. He was nymphing, casting upstream and allowing his line to drift back toward him.
After losing three different rigs to snags, he remained persistent. He knew a fish had to be in the hole.
But he caught nothing.
At that point he tied on a dropper, a No. 14 Jacklin's green rock worm, below a No. 10 March brown nymph. The rig was on 4-pound tippet.
And it worked.
The trout initially swam upstream, pulling line. When it turned back toward him, Jacklin reeled him in tight.
The fish swam back out into the current. Jacklin was ready for a chase downstream. But the trout turned around.
It swam back toward Jacklin, circled him nearly two times and stayed still for a second. The fish never jumped. It never tried to cough up the fly.
Jacklin grabbed his net and captured half of the fish. Since only its head and half of its body fit inside the net, Jacklin lifted the rest with his right hand.
"At that point, I had him," he said.
Like any fisherman with a great catch, Jacklin held the lunker for pictures. He gave it the death squeeze, sticking his fingers in its gills.
He plans on mounting the fish and hanging it in his West Yellowstone-based store, Jacklin's Fly Shop. The fish probably came from Quake Lake. It was at least 5 years old.
When Jacklin hooked the fish, he happened to be filming a fly-casting video. Two cameramen from Colorado captured the entire episode on video.
The company filming him, F/T Video Productions, plans on broadcasting the catch on two television shows, "Angling Adventures" and "Mountain States Fishing."
Jacklin has been tying flies, fly fishing and guiding for about 40 years. He has been inducted into the Fly Fishing Hall of Fame in New York, known as one of the sport's best. He's also a charter member of the Federation of Fly Fishers.
Despite his expertise, Jacklin said "the whole thing is contributed to complete luck."
The largest brown trout ever caught in Montana was 29 pounds, according to Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks. E.H. Bacon caught the fish in Wade Lake south of Ennis in 1966.
The state has no record for the largest trout caught in the Madison River.
"This is once in a lifetime," Jacklin said. "I've been looking for a 10-pound brown for 30 years."