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Thisisflydaily.com recently posted a you tube video showing a French guy landing an absolutely monstrous brown trout on a fly rod. The thing is ridiculously huge. What I can’t figure out is why during the entire video, the guy is losing his waders until they are eventually around his ankles. Thankfully he is wearing some swimming trunks. Video below:
My good friend’s production company recently produced a video for the new Toshiba product called the Libretto (links here and here). He wanted to put some fishing photos in part of the demo so he borrowed a few from my collection. You’ll notice from :15-:20 a photo gallery with three fishing themed images. The images are the brown trout, me standing on a log in front of the Tetons, and a group of buddies I fished with recently, I don’t know who the bikini girl is, she certainly wasn’t fishing. I guess this 5 seconds will be deducted from my overall 15 minutes of fame budget. Hopefully that leaves me enough time to still do something awesome. Click for the full video:
Big Weber River brown trout
Wildlife biologists in Utah have been busy in recent weeks conducting gill net and electroshock studies on local fisheries. Generally the reports have been quite positive. Here are links to some of the results:
Let’s get out and get some!
Me and a brown trout
I recently had a chance to float the Green River in Eastern Utah with a couple of old friends Andrew and Kevin. We had a great time. We floated the A section from the dam down to Little Hole in a drift boat we rented from the local lodge. The weather was incredibly snowy, but we carried on undaunted. The day started a little late as we were recovering from our late-night drive to the lodge which included plenty of snow, an encounter with pajama clad vixens in the Mountain View, Wyoming Maverick gas station, and a VERY near miss with a bounding deer (actually she brushed up against the car, but there was no real contact).
Kevin and a brown trout
After hearty breakfast at the lodge, we headed off to the river. We started the day with some deep nymphing, but found that to be a little slow, mostly I think this was due to not finding the right depth and feeding lanes. Within an hour of getting on the water however, we found ourselves in the midst of the biggest midge hatch I have ever seen. They were on the water in droves and everywhere you looked there dozens of fish up and feeding actively on the surface. We pulled over to make some rigging adjustments and I got out to wade fish. I had two beautiful browns in a matter of moments interestingly enough they were both caught on my olive compar-a-merger pattern which let me know that the BWO were also getting … Continue Reading
Lake Powell Largemouth Bass (utah.gov)
From the last few reports out of Lake Powell by Wayne Gustaveson, it sounds like this year is going to be a stellar fishing year. The stripers are up in both numbers and size and the largemouth bass are readying to spawn. Both the largemouth and smallmouth bass are producing well and they are catching very nice fish. If you have means to get to Lake Powell in the next 4-5 weeks don’t hesitate to go. The fishing sounds unbelievable!
Lake Powell report: 2010 looks remarkable (via SL Tribune, Fishing Utah Blog)
Brown trout. Credit: USFWS
I did a more exploring of local urban creeks last weekend and I can only report that I am more amazed than ever. My latest expedition found several wild browns that were absolute bruisers in the 16-17 inch range. I’m not even sure if these fish have ever seen a fly, but I can assure you they will soon. Now I just need to figure out how to get a good drift through the shopping cart they were hiding in. Seriously though, I am really amazed at how resilient these browns are living in all the trash and pollution they must endure. There was a nice mayfly hatch coming off too. I didn’t ever get to catch one for a closer look, but they were about a size 14-16 and a dusky gray as far as I could tell. I can’t wait to wet my line in pursuit of these beauties. Hopefully more to come on this saga.
I didn’t realize that the previous story I linked to Fishing: Flying on the Green, also had a companion video, which I have posted below (thanks for the tip Brett). This is a perfect example of why I love the Green. Around the 8:00 minute mark prepare to have your mind blown with an underwater shot of the river showing the great numbers of trout for which the Green River is famous and they aren’t tiny. Unbelievable. I need to get there soon!
(Click on the resolution setting in the player to watch in HD)
Wow, two book reviews in two days hard to imagine.
Today I am reviewing a great children’s book called Trout are Made of Trees by April Pulley Sayre (Author) and Kate Endle (Illustrator). This book offers an educational, yet fun look at the circle of life in a trout stream and describes how trees ultimately become trout. It is a great way to teach your kids about ecology and start them on the path to amateur entomology, we call fly fishing. This is a timely read given that Earth Day will soon be upon us and you will have a fun book you can share with your kids.
Trout cruising (photo from another outing)
The other day I was out scouting a local urban creek to look for some fishing opportunities. Mostly I was going to see if there were any carp in a place I had seen them before, thinking it would be fun to tie into one on a little creek. What I found surprised me. As I approached the creek, I could see there were 20-30 fish schooled up at the bottom of the run. I couldn’t distinguish what they were, so I moved in for a closer look. This move scared off several of the nicer ones and for a moment I thought I was looking at some mountain whitefish. However when I got a clear look at the few that remained I found they were all trout, some in the 14-16 inch range. I was shocked to say the least. Historically, I had caught trout on higher up on the creek as a kid, but after years of pollution and encroachment of white bass and carp, I guess I figured that trout were a thing of the past. These trout were stacked like cord wood in there and they were all wild. Amazing! Now to get back there and hook a few without drawing too much attention to myself, that will be the real trick!
I am telling you there is an underwater apocalypse brewing as we speak between sharks and gastropods. First it is reported that great white sharks are fighting giant squids, but now comes this shocking video of an octopus getting even. Thanks skatethefly.com. Next we will hear of sharks getting outfitted with fricking-laser beams on their heads.
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