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Uintas float and a bonus
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I haven't put up a report over here for a while, so here goes.

I have been hitting the bass fairly hard all summer long and when a kitchen pass came my way today, I decided I wanted a change and went trout fishing. My destination was the high Uintas. The route took me past my usual bassin pond and it was weird not to make the turn at Rock Cliffs. After the always enjoyable drive, I got there around noon. Since I wanted to float, I hit a roadside lake. As usual, the Uintas didn't disappoint. I initially had good luck with a Pistol Pete leech, but then found an area with active surface feeding, and switched to a 14 Adams. They liked that one too. As is typical of most lakes up here, most of the fish were small. Mostly bows but 3 albinos and several brookies too. After catching a number of fish approximately equal to my age, and after the initially cool refreshing rain was becoming a nuisance, I headed back.

As I got to the Rock Cliffs turn off on the way back, I still had a little over 90 minutes of daylight left. The car was on autopilot and the next thing I knew, I was at the launch ramp. As luck would have it, the senko carrier was there in the car too, along with the flies I brought. I therefore was obligated to see how my bass friends were doing before coming home. I am happy to report they are doing fine. (Last 4 pics)
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#2
wow.. great report and great pics of some very cooperative fishies.. congrats on a great day of fishing..

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[cool][#0000ff]Nice work.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Glad you decided to post up on the "Dark Side".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As an old Idaho kid who has spent a lot of time in the mountains, there is always something therapeutic about getting back into the pines and the clear running creeks and small lakes. The trout in those places are sure purty.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Nothing wrong with basses either.[/#0000ff]
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#4
That looks like Trial?
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#5
Nice report and nice batch of fish pictures.

It looks like not only your car but your rods were in auto pilot as well.[cool]
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#6
It was Trial. I had heard that the DWR had put in a few tiger trout in there last year and was hoping to score a few of those. No tigers yesterday, but the other species were more than happy to play.
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#7
As I mentioned before, believe it or not, that Lake is 68' in the middle, so the fish can get big.
Also looking at your picture, in the upper left hand side there is a stream coming in. That is where I caught the Grayling and they DO fight as good as Tiger. I didn't catch any tiger there either, but I have at Washington. Washington is just so hard to get to unless you are camping there. I mean packing in a tube or pontoon that is, walk wise it is nice.
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#8
RE: "in the upper left hand side there is a stream coming in. That is where I caught the Grayling"

Yes, that area was where the surface action was yesterday also. I didn't catch any grayling, but I have heard about them in there. How many did you get? Usually, for them, I hike into a lake on the Crystal lakes trail that has them. Grayling are one of my favorites. The species has never met a dry fly they didn't like. Ya gotta love that!
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#9
I caught about 10 Grayling there from 4" to maybe 8"..(if you pull real hard LOL)
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#10
WOW! I've never seen anything quite like those albino trout! Nice fish!!
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#11
The freak me out. You can almost see IN them.
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