Bighorn River, June 16, 2008. Air temp 75 degrees, Water temp 45 degrees, 8,700cfs. Sunny, winds calm, gorgeous day. Floated from A to B with Toolman and his friend Scott. A persistent rumor had been making the rounds that a dark olive scud was the pattern to have, and having tied up a few the night before, I started with a steel worm and an olive scud. We pushed off from the ramp at Afterbay, and I tossed my rig in the water while I dug in my pockets for some more split shot, and immediately hooked up. This was a bit of a rodeo, as I was in the back of the boat, didn't have my rod in hand, you know the drill. My first cast also hooked up, and fishing was damn good. Lots of fish seen, and the river looks absolutely gorgeous. We stopped just above 3 Mile to take in the river and marvelled at the chanfges occuring. Fish were moving all over the river, and I swear I senses the fish were getting a big kick having all this water and room to move about. Below 3 Mile, things really slowed down for me, and eventually never boated another fish after leaving 3 Mile. Had a could of nice hookups, but never touched a fish from there on down. Scott, fishing from the front, did land several very nice fish, including one rather hefty brown. I went through the usual cycle of flies until finally tiring of lobbing an ounce of lead around a fly rod. I swtiched to dries, and had a few takers on a Tarantula, but couldn't hook up. I'd been waiting for some baetis to appear, and had BWO emergers ready, and was MORE than ready to cast something a bit more delicate, but it was not to be. Others were hooking up, and I don't want to give the impression fishing was anythign less than spectacular. It just beat the crap outta me the second half of the day. There is almost no safe places for folks to wade fish on the 'horn right now, so plan accordingly. I'd say half the trips are ending before 5pm just because there's not a lot of places to stop and fish. Even our group, that started before 8am, and had a long stop for grilling burgers, pulled out about 4:30pm. Do plana trip to the 'horn while the waters up. Its a sight to behold, and absolutely gorgeous.