Thursday, January 13, 2011
Utah Trip Dec 2010
We headed up to Utah for the Holiday season to spend time with family. It was a quick trip but I was able to get a little fishing in. It was very cold while we were up there. -21 Degrees was recorded one morning. This made fishing a little harder, but somehow, standing in a river workin hard to get a strike just makes the weather warmer.
While up in Logan I spent a morning on the Logan river. I have not fished this river much, especially in the winter, so this was a learning experience. A couple of hours were spent with my dad landing the only fish of the day. But it was nice just to be outside.
I love the Logan River and Canyon, I just need to get more familiar with fishing it, especailly in the winter.
I also was able to head up to the Green River below the Flaming Gorge Dam. These are my home stomping grounds and I feel a lot more comfortable fishing here. Plus it was about 20 degrees warmer up on the mountain than it was where we were staying. We fished a few different egg patterns and then some midge nymph patterns. My dad landed a few fish right off on egg patterns, but the rest of the fish of the day were on midges. It took me a while to land my first fish. I had spotted 2 trout in a nice little run, and I made multiple casts to them without even a look. I could tell that they were feeding, so I had my dad come over to make a cast to them. On his second cast he landed the closer of the two trout. So while he was releasing that fish, I changed over to the midge pattern that he was using. After a couple of drifts I landed the second fish, which was the bigger of the two. A nice little 18'' Brown. He did not fight very much, but it was just satisfying to see the take and to feel the fish on the end of my line.
Later in the day the fish started to really start feeding on the surface. Unfortunatly we did not have any patterns that matched what they were taking. I did try a griffins gnat that did bring in a few stocker rainbows, but I was never able to land some of the big trout that were cruzing and sipping midges. To bad, It was fun to come to a slow eddie or pool and see dozens of fish nosing up to take midges off of the surface. I took a short video of it and I will get that posted.
While up in Logan I spent a morning on the Logan river. I have not fished this river much, especially in the winter, so this was a learning experience. A couple of hours were spent with my dad landing the only fish of the day. But it was nice just to be outside.
I also was able to head up to the Green River below the Flaming Gorge Dam. These are my home stomping grounds and I feel a lot more comfortable fishing here. Plus it was about 20 degrees warmer up on the mountain than it was where we were staying. We fished a few different egg patterns and then some midge nymph patterns. My dad landed a few fish right off on egg patterns, but the rest of the fish of the day were on midges. It took me a while to land my first fish. I had spotted 2 trout in a nice little run, and I made multiple casts to them without even a look. I could tell that they were feeding, so I had my dad come over to make a cast to them. On his second cast he landed the closer of the two trout. So while he was releasing that fish, I changed over to the midge pattern that he was using. After a couple of drifts I landed the second fish, which was the bigger of the two. A nice little 18'' Brown. He did not fight very much, but it was just satisfying to see the take and to feel the fish on the end of my line.
Later in the day the fish started to really start feeding on the surface. Unfortunatly we did not have any patterns that matched what they were taking. I did try a griffins gnat that did bring in a few stocker rainbows, but I was never able to land some of the big trout that were cruzing and sipping midges. To bad, It was fun to come to a slow eddie or pool and see dozens of fish nosing up to take midges off of the surface. I took a short video of it and I will get that posted.
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