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 A couple of buddies and myself have made a tradition out of skipping Friday classes and floating the river (we're in college and even the professors know that Friday is part of the weekend to us).  Lately we've focused our efforts on the Bitterroot, which has been fishing relatively well (not red hot yet) with skwalas, neumoras, midges, and BWOs.  This last Friday, we chose a stretch of water on the lower river to try and avoid some of the skwala-hyped crowds.  For those of you who have fished the lower Bitterroot (Florence down), you know that it holds healthy populations of pike that are becoming a big threat to the trout populations.  So I had one goal in mind; Friday night pike fry.  So, as my buddies spent the day tossing dries on their 5wts, I spent the day tossing 7" of white and red bunny on my 7wt (it would be a complete lie if I told you I didn't fish a dry).  Because of the length of the float we were on and the fact that I was out numbered 2:1 in favor for fishing for trout, we were only able to fish a couple of the sloughs on the float.  Overall, no pike were boated, but many were spotted.  I'm confident that if we would've fished all of the sloughs, many pike would have been landed.  I did manage to land a 3lb. largemouth bass, which I'm still pretty stoked about.  Crappy pic. was taken on a phone...its all we had.