The week in review.
Arrived home around midnight last night after dodging two thunderstorms in route. The first was horrific. Never before have I seen so much lightning. We passed the storm in Wisconsin north of Green Bay. We were just above and several miles to the north of the storm but I had a good view of the lightning which never stopped in the twenty minutes the storm was in sight. Trip to the Owyhee provided me with six great days of dry fly fishing for big browns (17 to 20 inches). The river basin is in a high desert and the water is used to irrigate the surrounding crop land. This year they had over 40 inches of snow on the ground at one time (normal winter snowfall is 6 to eight inches). The spring melt filled the reservoir and flows as high as 6000 cfs were run for several months. This flushed the silt out of the big pools and scoured the buildup of algae and grasses from the river. As a result there were major changes in the river. I...