Fall Fishing

When the water starts to get cold, the fish will move up into the shallows, which makes the fall season an excellent time to catch monster trout. This is a tiger trout I caught on saturday (11/7/09). This tiger is about the average size for this lake. They get BIG, which is why this lake must stay a secret.

Tiger Trout about 22 inches. This fish took a Denny Rickards seal bugger fly that I tied up in all black with maroon hackle in size 10.

Up on the mountain there are 3 lakes right in a row. One evening, when the family was visiting Salt Lake, I went up to calder to catch some football sized rainbows. Tiffany took our good camera, so I was left with the back up which takes fuzzy pictures.

At this lake I was able to catch 3 nice sized rainbows that were all over 21 inches and a half dozen smaller ones. These fish are as fat as they are long. These guys would not take the normal assorment of wooly buggers. I ended up catching them on a matuka fly variation with a yellow and brown tail, yellow/orange body, with a wrap of orange/brown hackle behind the hook of the eye. The majority of them were caught within 20 ft of the shoreline.

Obesity is a good thing, if you are a fish.


On Halloween, Jace and I went for a quick trip to the Green. While I was fishing he took out his airsoft gun and asked if he could shoot at some birds. Not really paying attention, I told him sure. I heard him take a shot and say, " huh, I think I missed, but he's not flying away." I turned around and he was shooting at an offsprey about 30 feet away from him. I then told him, " Uh... I don't think you want to shoot at that bird."

The fishing was good! They were sipping midges all day, but still could not resist my brown foam ant (winner of the day). I had a couple of fish take a variety of midge patterns (griffith gnat being the highest producer followed by a double midge pattern). The rainbow above took my mole fly, which is a mayfly imitation.


This was a boys trip to greens lake, which is close to flamming gorge. This is a private lake that is stocked with brooke trout.

These guys were spawning and had bright orange bellies. There were a few other people fishing with bait but nobody was catching anything. I tied on my olive damsel fly with a burnt orange tail and couldn't keep them off my hook. The fish weren't very big, but they have beautiful colors.