Our guide is Tom Baxter an Australian who rigged my rod this morning before our departure. Two weeks ago I was fishing the Bighorn River in Fort Smith, Montana, with a five weight, a ten foot 5x tapered leader and a size 20 trico imitation. Today I have a nine weight Sage ONE with an 8-foot leader that starts out with a 60 pound butt of RIO Fluoroflex tippet followed by a 40 pound mid-section of the same and a short 20 inch section of RIO wire. My fly is a size 3/0 black snake, this is obviously serious business. Tom points to the far bank and tells me to cast as close as I can to the bank and then strip as fast as I can.