We arrived early on the Root and were pumped when we came up to the first group of logs and found a large brown holding. Jerry took a couple of casts before the brown spooked. He continued downstream and found another brown holding near the logs. This one also spooked after a couple of casts. I soon spotted another large female holding downstream in a shallow riffle. This one took my bugger and after a short fight we had our first fish landed, a fat 31 inch female. We continued to working downstream, but didn't find any other fish. As we made our way back upstream, Jerry hooked up with another large female. As I was running over with the net the hook popped out. The fish held in the same place and he was soon hooked up again. We landed it this time, another fat 31 inch female. As we were releasing his fish, I spotted two males fighting. The larger male took off downstream and I headed after it. It only took two casts before it aggressively too my fly and tore off upstream. I excitedly took off after it as I could tell it was a big fish. After a couple of runs, I let out a sigh of relief when it was finally netted. It was my largest brown to date, a large 35 inch male brown.

We decided to head upriver to try some new water. We saw a couple of fish splashing around, but didn't see many upstream. As we turned to head back down stream, Jerry spotted one holding up near the bank. He worked the fish for a good 10 minutes before it finally took his fly. As it turned downstream I could tell this one was a monster. He fought the fish and right as I got the net under it, the hook popped out. The fish was a monster, a 33 inch female, at least 20 pounds. We snapped a couple of photos and let her go. We both each landed two more males close to 34 inches downstream before taking off to try another river. The water temps were in the low 40's with the flow around 20-25 cfs and the best flies were dark colored wooly buggers. Most of the fish were holding near logs or any other structure they could find.