Spring Trips

I apologize for the set up of this blog. "They" switched the format on me so this blog is really confusing.  This blog consist of 3 different trip.  2 Saturdays ago we had decided to float the Green River as a family; however Jace, Zack and I headed up early to Calder to get a couple of hours in there.  We started off trolling and Jace caught one off a spinner (below).  After that it was fairly slow, until I got close to the boat ramp to dock the boat.  I cast my fly right up onto the bank and caught the fish above.  As I was docking my boat I told two guys, who just pulled up, to fish off the bank by the boat ramp.  One of the guys landed 2 nice fish as I was getting everything ready to go. 

Jace with his fish.  Most of the fish I caught were on a grey AP emerger.

One night after work Zack, Tyson and I headed up to Calder to fish for a few hours.  I had been dying to get back up since I knew the fish were in close to the bank.  After busting off on a fish and a few different misses, we rowed over to the inlet where the fish were stacked up on the bank.  About the last 30 mins to an hour of sunlight, fish were going nuts splashing around 1 to 2 feet off the bank.  My first few casts onto the bank caught some fish until I finally snagged a rock.  Rod number two came out with the same results a few minutes later.  As we rowed up to the bank and got out I could see hundreds of fish right off the bank and none of them seemed to be too afraid of me.

Tyson and Zack

Jace with the first catch of the evening.  When we got to the Green this day, I went straight to a hole I always fish and next thing I knew Jace was trying to fish in my spot  I kicked him out and he went down river a bit and his first cast into his new spot produced a nice brown.  He caught it with a copper spinner with a white body.

Zack with a rainbow that he reeled in.

We spent most of the evening fishing behind this big rock in the picture.  There was a killer mayfly hatch coming off and fish were slurping up flies all over the place.

Most of the fish were caught on a grey parachute adams and a mayfly cripple pattern.

Zack with another rainbow

Tiff with the first fish of the day on our family float trip.  We trailed a black callibaetis nymph behind a ginger woolley bugger.

I rowed most of the day while tiff and the boys fished.  We pulled over for lunch and I finally got to fish.  Jace caught several fish on a brown trout rapala

Jace and Zack

Tyson

Final stretch of the Green.  Tyson feel asleep in Tiffs arms so we plowed through the last couple of miles. I promise most post after this one wont be as confusing!