{"id":107,"date":"2014-04-08T21:38:38","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T21:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/?p=107"},"modified":"2014-04-08T21:38:38","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T21:38:38","slug":"expect-the-unexpected-the-missouri-in-the-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/expect-the-unexpected-the-missouri-in-the-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect the Unexpected &#8211; The Missouri in the Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fly fishing the Missouri River above Cascade Lake out of Craig Montana in early April is not for the average angler. \u00a0Snow, rain, hail, wind and sun are always in the forecast. \u00a0However the rewards of early spring fishing far out weigh any concerns for weather. \u00a0That&#8217;s why we spend $$$ on guide clothes, right?<\/p>\n<p>This year, I selected the same dates to fish the MO as last year. \u00a0Big surprise. \u00a0Record snowpacks and cold temperatures extended winter well into early April. \u00a0However, we still caught &#8220;angry&#8221; Browns and &#8220;feisty&#8221; rainbows on adult skwala patterns as well as the short leash nymphing technique. \u00a0(See previous post) \u00a0If you go say hi to Headhunters Fly Shop owner Mark Raiser. \u00a0Ask for Jared Edens to guide you. \u00a0You won&#8217;t be disappointed. \u00a0(yes that&#8217;s a purple Skwala)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_108\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-content\/uploads\/brown-eats-purple-skwala.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108\" alt=\"Hungry browns in spring await your presentation.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-content\/uploads\/brown-eats-purple-skwala-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-content\/uploads\/brown-eats-purple-skwala-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-content\/uploads\/brown-eats-purple-skwala-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-content\/uploads\/brown-eats-purple-skwala.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hungry browns in spring await your presentation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always expect the unexpected when fly fishing the spring on the Missouri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,22,18,21,19],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brown-trout","tag-headhunters-fly-shop","tag-missouri-river","tag-rainbow-trout","tag-skwala"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.troutdogs.com\/writing-narration-production\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}