August 11, 2013
During the past two weeks I took some vacation time and went to Montana. I stayed with a very old friend that now has a house in the southwest corner of thestate. This is some of the most beautiful country in the world. The house is located 10 miles off the hard road, between Custer National Park and Yellowstone. I spent 7 days fishing for brown and rainbow trout. We fished four days on Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone, two days on the Yellowstone River itself, and 1 day on the Stillwater. I had a great time and hope to go back in the spring next year.
This week started out with early afternoon low tides, and we really had to work hard to catch redfish. WE fished a lot of water from downtown, north to Palm Valley. As the week went on and the tides got later in the afternoon, the redfish really picked up and by Friday we were catching up to 15 fish in the 22 inch range, with three or four in the 30 – 32 inch range.
We really got lucky with the afternoon thunderstorms this week with the easterly sea breeze. It kept all the bad weather inland so we had no problem with the storms. Next week we will be having good early morning tides. We’ll be starting the trips at daylight and I expect the fishing to stay good with the early starts and good tides. 
