Sunday, September 23, 2012

September Trips


Over Labor day weekend, the Carter family had their annual camping trip up by Flamming Gorge.
While we were up that way, we also did our annual "Bro's no Ho's" float down the Green. 
We dropped the drift boat off at the Dam and it started to rain hard.  By the time Trent and Todd got back from little hole the rain had stopped, but we had a good couple of inches of water we had to bail out of the boat.  Luckily it didn't rain again the entire trip until we pulled in to little hole.

 Trent chucked a brown trout rapala all day and caught a lot of fish.  One of his last fish was the nice fat rainbow in the picture below.
 Todd caught a couple of fish underneath using a black PT nymph.  His last fish of the day took him for a ride and was a nice healthy brown in the pic below.


 Jones Hole
 Saturday (9/22/12), my wife actually told me to go fish for the day!  Since I had some time to burn all by myself, I went to Jones Hole around lunch time and hit Calder in the evening.
 Finally a break at Jones!  My past couple of trips to Jones has been hard fishing with not very many fish.  This trip however, I had the creek to myself and the fishing was ridiculous.  I started with a brown ant that caught a few fish but started to sink, so I went to tie on something else.  I noticed I had very little tippet and left my extra tippet in the car.  So, I picked out a nice tan hopper and tied it straight on to my leader, which apparently worked out much better on a small creek with trees everywhere.  Once the Hopper was tied on, BAM, fish on all day long.
 I only hiked in about 1.5 miles and was surprised at home many browns I caught. 


CALDER

 After a good afternoon on Jones, I stopped off at Calders, put the boat in and rowed over towards the inlet.  Once I got to the inlet side of the lake, I noticed a fish  rising on occasion.  I tied on a olive/burnt org stillwater bug and trailed a black/peacock callibaetis nymph behind it.  My first cast was towards the area where he was rising.  As my fly was sinking just a bit, I felt my line take off.  I set the hook and this big old rainbow came flying out of the water 3 times.  When I finally got him close to the boat, he made one last run deep into the weeds right under me and "pop" there went my fly.  He took the nymph, so I tied another one on.
 My next 3 fish however took the stillwater bug.  Overall for the evening it was 60:40 with the stillwater bug winning.  My fishing luck carried over from Jones Hole and I had an awesome evening on calder boating a fish about every five minutes.
 Most of my fish where in the 16 to 18 inch range, but ALL were nice and fat.
 My biggest fish of the evening was a 21 incher
 As the sun was setting over the mountain, I heard an Elk bugle not to far from where I was at.  A few minutes later I heard a weird grunting noise.  I turned towards the noise, thinking it was the elk I had heard and was shocked to see a moose family.
 So, I rowed over a bit closer to get a better peak.  I watched them for about 15 mins, but soon all the fish jumping around me enticed me to cast again.  A couple more fish to the boat and I called it a night!