08-31-2024, 02:36 AM
wiperhunter2, joshomaru, Cowboypirate, richyd4u: wow! thank you very much for these awesome responses! I'm looking forward to helping out my new peeps!
My son's and I have already read through all this excellent information. We plan to very soon try the upper Provo, diamond fork, hobble creek, and I'm sure we'll try some lake fishing again soon at Strawberry and maybe some other places. Cowboypirate, I'll find your video on the upper Weber if I can (I fished up there - near Peoa and Oakley a fair bit in from about 1988 through summer 1991 with awesome memories!).
richyd4u: wow, that is one amazing fish your daughter has there. I'm curious, is that another family member putting in the fish behind and left of your daughter (back right of photo)? Must have been an amazing outing for all! Please let me know which lakes/streams you think worth a trip to Southern Utah. We love to try to spend time in the region of St. George at least once a year (we love visiting Snow Canyon and just running all over the petrified dunes for example). My 14 year old son found a place called Boulder Mountain in his searching, and has been trying to convince me to find time for a trip there.
wiperhunter2: yup my reference to rubber hatch is the CRAZY number of rafts, tubes, and flotation devices of all kinds. I cannot stress enough how difficult it is to fish there most afternoons and evening now - from just below the dam at Deer Creek down at least to Vivian Park. As a teenager and in my early twenties, I could spend 2 hours on that stretch of river and land a dozen browns and bows easily. Not anymore, not at all.
joshomaru: my boys and I have had some fun and success on the American Fork river, but wow it's hard to fish it with all the tree/shrub/brush growth and difficulty of access. Now that they're getting better at fly fishing, I don't spend the whole time untangling and re-doing their lines due to hooking everything except fish, haha! It's also hard to find decent holes that hold the better and larger fish. That said, we've found a few (literally as in 3) that we like and now avoid the rest. We've caught rainbows and browns there, with a couple reaching to the 14 inch range, but with most very small around 8-10 inches but lots of fun. The swarms of humanity all over the place up there nowadays on evenings and weekends doesn't help - but no human floaters on that small creek thank goodness.
Cowboypirate: many thanks for your response and videos... impressive all around. So you know, a former work associate of mine fishes with jigs like you used on the Weber of on the south fork of the Snake River in Idaho. He has his secret spots, and literally kills its just about every weekend. He uses jigs with fly rods and spinner setups, and that's almost the only way he fishes.
I'll be posting more. If there's anything I can do to return the favors let me know. I'll be sure to begin offering my experiences on where we fish. Finally, thankfully I kept all my old equipment boxed up... and now my boys and I have a long table with three fly tying vises, and my old rod building equipment and turner. My 14 year old built his own fly rod with my guidance (I guess it's like riding a bike, haha) and now my 12 year old and I have kits and will be making our own fly rods as well over the next month or so. I look forward to sharing anything I can. Thanks again y'all.
My son's and I have already read through all this excellent information. We plan to very soon try the upper Provo, diamond fork, hobble creek, and I'm sure we'll try some lake fishing again soon at Strawberry and maybe some other places. Cowboypirate, I'll find your video on the upper Weber if I can (I fished up there - near Peoa and Oakley a fair bit in from about 1988 through summer 1991 with awesome memories!).
richyd4u: wow, that is one amazing fish your daughter has there. I'm curious, is that another family member putting in the fish behind and left of your daughter (back right of photo)? Must have been an amazing outing for all! Please let me know which lakes/streams you think worth a trip to Southern Utah. We love to try to spend time in the region of St. George at least once a year (we love visiting Snow Canyon and just running all over the petrified dunes for example). My 14 year old son found a place called Boulder Mountain in his searching, and has been trying to convince me to find time for a trip there.
wiperhunter2: yup my reference to rubber hatch is the CRAZY number of rafts, tubes, and flotation devices of all kinds. I cannot stress enough how difficult it is to fish there most afternoons and evening now - from just below the dam at Deer Creek down at least to Vivian Park. As a teenager and in my early twenties, I could spend 2 hours on that stretch of river and land a dozen browns and bows easily. Not anymore, not at all.
joshomaru: my boys and I have had some fun and success on the American Fork river, but wow it's hard to fish it with all the tree/shrub/brush growth and difficulty of access. Now that they're getting better at fly fishing, I don't spend the whole time untangling and re-doing their lines due to hooking everything except fish, haha! It's also hard to find decent holes that hold the better and larger fish. That said, we've found a few (literally as in 3) that we like and now avoid the rest. We've caught rainbows and browns there, with a couple reaching to the 14 inch range, but with most very small around 8-10 inches but lots of fun. The swarms of humanity all over the place up there nowadays on evenings and weekends doesn't help - but no human floaters on that small creek thank goodness.
Cowboypirate: many thanks for your response and videos... impressive all around. So you know, a former work associate of mine fishes with jigs like you used on the Weber of on the south fork of the Snake River in Idaho. He has his secret spots, and literally kills its just about every weekend. He uses jigs with fly rods and spinner setups, and that's almost the only way he fishes.
I'll be posting more. If there's anything I can do to return the favors let me know. I'll be sure to begin offering my experiences on where we fish. Finally, thankfully I kept all my old equipment boxed up... and now my boys and I have a long table with three fly tying vises, and my old rod building equipment and turner. My 14 year old built his own fly rod with my guidance (I guess it's like riding a bike, haha) and now my 12 year old and I have kits and will be making our own fly rods as well over the next month or so. I look forward to sharing anything I can. Thanks again y'all.