It was a dream for you. However, my 24 year old son moved to Missoula, MT this past summer.

He was beginning his fly fishing career one fine July morning. As he described it, he was in a creek 20 yards wide, focused on his casting technique, trying to lay the fly in just so.

Out of nowhere a cow moose come flying out of the bushes. He claimed it cleared half the creek on one jump. He fell back into the water as the moose blew snot directly above him. He dropped his pole and took off like a bat out of he!!?

He said he was in 3' of water and the animals knees were still a foot out of the water. The funny part is he left his wallet, phone and car keys on the bank and had to return to the scene of the crime to retrieve all his belongings.

Welcome to Montana young man. I'm sure there was a calf involved but he learned a lesson on paying attention to your surroundings in the wilderness.