Camping-Memorial Weekend

I have been trying to get up to Flaming Gorge for over a month now to fish for the spawning rainbows. One of my patients goes up 3-4 times a week and always lets me know how good it was. Finally this last week, he told me that I better get up there with in a day or two because the fishing has started to slow down. I took the boys up wednesday after work and got a flat tire on the dirt road down to the lake. I decided that I would fish a bit anyways before driving home 50 miles on my donut spare tire. I had my patients secret fly which is basically a ginger bugger with no hackle. My very first cast I landed the fish below. It was frustrating after that because you could see over 5lb rainbows everywhere within the first 10-20 feet of shore but none of the fish were interested. Next year remind me to go in April!
This last weekend I decided to go to currant creek for a camping trip. My dad and brother met us up there for a quick friday/saturday trip. Saturday morning we went to the lake to let the kids chuck some bait. When we got to our favorite spot, there were about 15 "out of towners" with their buckets filled with trout. Jace ended up catching a few smaller cutts, and I caught some smaller browns below the dam in the river. On the way home we made a little detour to our secret tiger lake and ended up catching about 20 cutthroats that where piled up in the little inlet.

This lake is a brood lake for the native bonneville cutthroats. They had some bright red coloration to their bellies since they are spawning.

Jace with his cutthroat from currant creek.