Post by macintosh on Aug 11, 2013 16:51:01 GMT -5
I had to attend a trade show in Salt Lake at the end of July, and managed to sneak in a couple days chasing trouts afterwards. We drove east several hours to yet another gold-medal trout stream that my fishing partner has fished a few times. As per usual for this type of watr, there are a zillion fish and finding them is stupid-easy...its catching them thats nearly impossible some days. I had the hardest time not spooking fish, and by the end of the trip I was using a 15 foot leader and 7x tippet and still spooking more than not. Darn fish are well educated. Everything we caught was on size 24-28 midges. Enough to drive a bass guy mad...pretty happy to get back to my "burly" drop shot rig with 8lb test today!
Hope you enjoy
The reservoir the river flows out of. This is just one arm of it, its actually a dammed river thats now a res almost 100 miles long.
Its best fished from a drift boat, as not much of it is wadeable. We were wading
. Further downstream where this pic is taken some of it is wadeable, although its still a big river especially by western trout stream standards.
I am living proof that if you froth the water long enough some fool trout will take pity on you and bite purely as a courtesy.
My buddy, on the other hand, is actually a good fly fisherman, and managed toland this whopper of a brown on a size 28 midge and 6x tippet. It had broken him off the night before...after nearly dropping the fish in the water before the picture, he removed both flys and released it to make more whopper browns...
Hope you enjoy
The reservoir the river flows out of. This is just one arm of it, its actually a dammed river thats now a res almost 100 miles long.
Its best fished from a drift boat, as not much of it is wadeable. We were wading
. Further downstream where this pic is taken some of it is wadeable, although its still a big river especially by western trout stream standards.I am living proof that if you froth the water long enough some fool trout will take pity on you and bite purely as a courtesy.
My buddy, on the other hand, is actually a good fly fisherman, and managed toland this whopper of a brown on a size 28 midge and 6x tippet. It had broken him off the night before...after nearly dropping the fish in the water before the picture, he removed both flys and released it to make more whopper browns...
