IF you have met Bill Thorne you know he is one of the good guys.
After all any guy who is willing to take on the presidency of two TU chapters should be accorded trout sainthood. But Bill hadn’t had much of a shake on big browns, and Bill being a big fella needs to be holding a really big brown.
We have scored plenty of fish over 2’ long in the last 3 years, Chad, Ben, Alex myself and a bunch of customers but as hard as he tried Bill couldn’t crack the 24” mark.
Today Bill, Alex and I put in plenty of river miles for little result, the bite was a little timid, lots of fish flashing on the flies “drive-bys” and even those that ate didn’t seem to some with commitment. Then Bill moved a real Hawg a behemoth of a fish which levitated up off a log pile _ would that be Bill’s only shot of the day?
We were way downstream and I was on the sticks when he set up on a good fish, a very good fish, one we were keen to tape, 26.75”. I don’t think Bill has stopped smiling yet.
