The fishing was spectacular on the Fremont River today! okay Okay. maybe it was because on this short fly fishing trip I was accompanied by my Daughter Miriam. Bicknell Bottoms The bottoms are essentially a giant marsh with plenty of Mud, Reeds, Cattails, and ducks. it was once a slowly meandering beautiful stream that wandered…
DetailsIt’s Winter Here In Southern Utah.The Fly fishing Streams are Quiet. I found myself wandering the streams alone, unless you count the weasel hunting the shoreline for voles or unwary chipmunks checking on their winter stores.Fly Fishing Southern Utah In The Winter Reminds Me Of How it was over 20 years ago, when few people…
DetailsSnow has come to our little mountain valley and left it’s first covering of snow, and most of the mountains with 10 to 18 inches of its cold icy grasp! With the winter months the fly fishing is limited to lakes not yet frozen solid, or to the adventure of driving snow covered roads up…
DetailsFly Fishing In Southern Utah During The Winter? yes, well…. sometimes, winters here can be brutal, mostly due to cold! its important to remember that the fishing here takes place between 7000 and 11000 feet. most of the water is obviously frozen, that coupled with un-maintained roads covered in Snow means that fishing can go…
DetailsAlthough the temperatures are forecasted to be climbing back into the upper 50s the season really is closing down… reports are coming in that many of Boulder Mountains lakes have ice to thin to walk on, to thick to to smash your 4 mm bead through. Fish lake typically doesn’t freeze till after Christmas, but…
DetailsThis fly is great for those fish that aren’t just at the bottom, but are actually under the rock at the bottom. The Tiger Trout Fishing has remained great on several of the mountain lakes this fall.but….. the temperature this morning was 8 deg. that makes it kinda tough to cast!frozen line guides? well yes!…
DetailsTomorrow promises a high in the 60s this will be the last high pressure day before another cold front swings in! These high pressure days make for great fall fishing!!! When the pressure drops I tend to feel it in my ears and back! And it gets cold! Highs in the 40s, 30s and 20s,…
DetailsGreat day on the water with Merri, Melissa, and Gram!started on the Fremont. the fish were spawning pretty heavily so we focused on the pools drifting small nymphs below an indicator the fishing was fast and furious there was no need to disturb the spawning fish. We finished off the day fishing for Tiger trout!…
DetailsFall has arrived!and with it some Big Fish!its not been often this year I got to fly fish with My son Thomas, but the last two times I’ve made it out with him he’s caught bigger trout then me…. I couldn’t be more pleased with his progress in learning to be a great fisherman and…
DetailsSNOW! SNOW! SNOW!Boulder Mountain and Thousand Lake got 8 to 10 inches!Don’t attempt to cross over the top on T.L. or go up on the Dirt roads of Boulder!Be prepared to get stuck and be there for a while you do.