E-14 Ones: It's Official--To The Mo We Go!!!

Well, Ones, here it is, your OFFICIAL NOTICE…Extravaganza 2014’s Group One will be fishing the Mighty Missouri River out of Craig, MT all three of its E-14 fishing days!!!  Hence, indeed, it is “The Mo We Go”!!

 

And, as you veteran Ones know, that is not a bad thing….so here is the new program for Group One:

 

1.        Arrival Day, June 14^th, remains unchanged—except for the Rosenbaums who are doing their traditional “Spokane thing”-- I will meet and greet each of you at Missoula Airport upon your arrivals, from which we will have vehicles for you to (a) go to the Montana Club for our traditional first day luncheon, (b) then go to our Blackfoot House for a Group Meeting, (c) then head up to the Rock Creek Mercantile to get licensed and geared up (remember, all, we reserve the right to treat you extravagantly during your stay with us!), and (d) continue up Rock Creek Road to Headquarters to get moved in and spend the afternoon practicing our casting and getting acclimated to your new digs.  That evening, Hank Fisher will present on the goings on of the National Wildlife Federation and the Montana Natural History Museum.

2.       Each of our three fishing days, (a) we will arise early and leave with our boat provisions (rain suit, polarized glasses, change of clothing all in your water proof boat bag) to meet our motor coach at 5:30 a.m. sharp; (b) the 50 person motor coach, under the supervision of our favorite driver, Commander Cliff, will depart at 6:00 a.m. sharp arriving in Craig, MT (just north of Wolf Creek, MT, the nearest weather station for those who might want to check it out in advance) around 8:30 a.m. where we will meet up with our guides (who will already be on site and waiting for us); (c) we will fish the Missouri River just below the Holter Dam with guide lunches provided to you, getting off the water and back to the bus no later than 5:30 p.m.; (d) the bus will leave to retrace its tracks at 6:00 p.m. sharp, arriving back at the Merc around 8:30 p.m.; from which (d) we will head immediately back to Headquarters for drinks, dinner and some down time.  Blessedly, except for a special E-14 Jack Hannah video presentation for you on our last fishing day, I have just cancelled the gaggle of speakers that I otherwise had set to present to you après dinner each of our evenings together.

3.       Departure day remains unchanged—we will have our traditional closing breakfast at Headquarters that morning and I will take you back to the airport in time for you to collapse on your homeward bound flights.

 

A word about the Missouri—true to the adage “when he is good, he is very, very good; when he is bad, he is very, very bad!”, that sums up the lay of the water on the Missouri River.  A curse upon anyone on the bus ride over who mentions the “W” word…don’t even think it or spell it (w…i…n…d), as that is the downside of fishing a river within a W tunnel when the weather kicks up.  This early in the season, “W” is not as normal an occurrence as it is later in the summer when the thermals develop, but, “’W’ happens” on The Mo (remember those of us Ones in 2011 who were on the water one day and got caught up in a blustery half hour downpour that impressively deluged us!!).  That being said (as in, yes, rain gear is a must to have with you as well as a change of clothes), get this:  below Holter Dam which regulates the water so it is fishable even in high water years, the fish count is 7,200 trout to the river mile (that’s 1.25 fish to every river-foot, Ones) with the average size of the brown and rainbow trout residing in the Mo being over 18”, with the plurality in the twenty inch range, and, as I mentioned to you before, during E-11 when we fished The Mo all nine of our fishing days, we caught and released 111 Twenty Inchers, as is well reflected on our Twenty Inch Boards (we needed three of them!) yet here with pride at Headquarters.

 

So, yes, Wonderful Ones, it is official:  “To The Mo We Go”…viva la Extravaganza!!  Reach out to me via email if you have any questions; also, I will be back in my Bay Area office come Monday so feel free to call me there as needed.

 

Best to you all from the scene of it all,

 

Rock Creek Ron

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Ronald K. Clausen
Clausen Law Group
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