Monday, July 30, 2012

Falcon's Ledge Utah

Spent Thursday night, Friday, and Saturday fishing out of a lodge called Falcon's Ledge. It is an Orvis endorsed lodge and they put us up for free with the expectation that we would of course have a great time, and send clients back.
I had expected the fishing to be good. After all it is mid summer in the rockies, and we're all pretty experienced sticks with guides so... yeah, it was good.
We only had 2 full days of fishing so we had to choose what rivers we were going to fish. There are about 10 choices within approximately 30 min from the lodge so the choice was tough. I decided not to go to the high mountain streams because I can do that stuff in CA, even though I'm sure it would have been awesome. Some of the other people that were there chose those streams and had a great time.
I decided to fish a river called the Strawberry the first day, and was super lucky to have my name pulled out of a hat for a drift boat trip on the Green River on Saturday.
The lodge was surrounded by ponds which were fun to screw around on in the evening and early morning. I caught some fish out of those. I also caught my first Tiger Trout which is a brown mixed with a Brook Trout; they're really aggressive.

My guide for the first day was named Grant. He was a lot of fun to fish with. We used Yellow Stimi's because the Yellow Sallies were hatching, we dropped big size 14 Red Copper Johns underneath them.
We caught fish on both flies at a pretty equal rate. I caught two 20" browns and a few others that were over 15. It was a great day. Grant's grand parents and some of his aunts and uncles are little people.

Woke up the next day at 5:30am and hit the road with Tucker for the Green at 630. Met our guide Nick Johnson in Dutch John.
The river was crowded with rafters but it didn't really effect the fishing, just kind of ruined the serenity of being on the river. They were having one hell of a good time but I wish they'd have chosen to play in a reservoir instead of one of the most beautiful and trout filled rivers in the world.
There were a number of other drift boats out too but everyone got along just fine. Accepting one dumb ass on a huge raft that was alone. He low holed us once and Nick gave him a dirty look, he didn't come too close after that.
We fished dries all day which was awesome. The hot fly up top which was Tuckers idea was a black spotlight caddis, size 18. I hooked one on a renegade also.
We dropped a PT size 18 off of a hopper down low and started hooking rainbows on the pt's. The last fish of the day was a nice brown on a hopper.



Lots of fish caught. Lost one brown at the boat that was 20"+ and another rainbow that charged the boat that was probably around the same size but its tough to say. The smallest fish was 14".




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