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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!
Pete between the oars
I recently got in touch with my old boss from my guiding days, Pete. He and my favorite local outdoor news writer Brett Prettyman took a marathon day trip to the Green River on Tuesday 4/13 and floated the B Section. Sounds like amidst the snow and sun breaks they had a great time fishing. Read more about it here.
They floated with one of the Green River originals, Emmett Heath who has recently returned to work for Western Rivers Flyfisher in Salt Lake City. My favorite Emmett story, which I understand is supported by video evidence, is also from the B section of the river. The story goes that he was taking a crew from Fly Fisherman magazine down the river for a video they were shooting. They filmed him as he made his way through the most technical rapid on the fishing sections of the river, Red Creek Rapid. Usually in low water guides choose to have clients walk around the rapid as there is a fairly high chance of a mishap in the rocky rapid. On this occasion, however, he had the woman who hosted the show float through with him. Apparently just as they entered the chute where you “drop” into the rapid, his oarlock malfunctioned and pulled out leaving him with only one working oar. Somehow he had the cool to get through the rest of the rapid and get them both safely through. It would be cool to see the video of that. I wonder if it is out on YouTube somewhere. I would have had to change my shorts after that for sure!
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
A new website specializing in Utah fishing information has recently sprung up called called, appropriately, utahfishing.info. I think it has some really good potential as a means to harvest fishing reports information from Twitter. It would be cool to see if they could refine out the totally unrelated tweets from their river reports, but so far things at least look interesting and it’s a site I’ll be watching. They can also be followed on Twitter @utahfishinginfo.
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I had a great outing yesterday (Jan 20, 2010) to the middle section of the Provo River in Midway, UT. It also happened to be my birthday. I was very excited to get up there and had been planning this trip for a couple of weeks. I got to the north parking lot around 10:30 AM and just as the snow was letting up. This combination turned out to be the right one as the fish were very active and hungry. As soon as the snow stopped falling and the sun started to peak through the clouds there was a healthy hatch of black midges that had the fish feeding heavily.
I had in mind for sometime that I was going to fish streamers and try and get at some of the larger browns. So that is the approach I took. Within 10 minutes I had already landed two nice brown trout, the second being the fish of the day at just under 18 inches (to the left). They were both aggressive strikes that left no doubt I was on the right track. I was fishing an olive cone head sculpin pattern that is a cross between a muddler minnow and a wooly bugger. I worked my way around through a few more runs and gave in to the siren song of the rising fish, but soon changed back as I was having a hard time seeing my flies in the light conditions. In all I fished for about 6 hours and landed about 7 trout all of them quality fish. Perhaps what I found most striking was how beautifully they colored … Continue Reading
Brett Prettyman of the Salt Lake Tribune has a blog that is always full of great information about fishing conditions and other Utah outdoor topics. Today he has a some good reports for the state of Utah over at his blog. Todays topics:
Check out his blog frequently for updates!
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