A Few More River Trips With A Personal Best

I'm still waiting for ice off so back to the Weber river I go. I fished by myself today and started out fishing a lower section of the river. The run-off was really bad and the water clarity was aweful! It was really muddy and that made for zero hites in 2 hours of fishing. I decided to drive to a different spot hoping to get lucky and find some water that wasn't mucked up with dirt and debris and the drive payed off. I went to a spot I hadn't fished in a while and the water clarity was great for this time of year. I started fishing and it was more of the same that I expirenced earlier in the day. That is, until about a half hour later I came to a nice hole that usually doesn't let me down. And on the forth cast, WHAM! I knew I had a mamoth as the fish hit my lure. The fish repeatedly jumped out of the water tring to get free but to no avail. I landed the fish and knew I had a new personal best. I grabbed the tape and confirmed what I already thought. I beat my old best by 2 whole inches as it measured out at 23 inches, just 1 inch shy of 2 feet long! I really need to get a scale because I would really like to know the weight of this fish. Any Guesses? After a few pictures with the tripod, I watch the monster swim away so that another angler might get a chance at him too. It was more of the same the rest of the day. I landed big browns in most of the holes the rest of the day. I got a lot of video (that I haven't been able to edit and load) so I only took a few pictures. The video editing is a work in progress, I'm still figuring it out.

23" Beast. My new personal best for brown trout.

Long but skinny.

The only Cutthroat Trout of the day.

These are a few pictures from last weeks trip. I went with my friend Joe and we had a hay day catching big fish. Joe landed a 21" fat Rainbow and several 20-21" browns but all of those pictures are on his camera. As soon as I get them I will add them to the post. I landed nothing but browns on this trip. Together I'd say we caught 30-35 fish. It was one of the best days I've had on the Weber as far as numbers caught go.

Epic Day On The Weber

I'm still waiting for ice-off on the lakes so I hit the Weber again. I post alot about this river so this will be short and sweet. I fished with Rob in the morning and he caught a bunch of nice cuttroat trout in the 16-18 inch range. I will add the pictures as soon as he gets them to me. He had to leave early and I fished on for another couple hours. I landed 7 fish total. All the Browns but one I caught were 18 inches or bigger with the largest just over 20 inches! I also landed a smaller cutt which was nice because I usually don't hook into those. The Weber was indeed good to me today!

Check out that hook jaw!

Back On The River

The slush monster was out in full force on the lakes so ice fishing has become more work than what it is worth. With that, Rob and I decided to hit the river for the first time this year. There was lite snow falling with next to no wind. Rob used his fly rod and I used a spinning rod to see what was working. We started fishing around 7:30 in the morning and it started out slow and continued to pick up as the day went on. By the end of the day we had landed a bunch of fish with Rob beating me in the number of fish caught. He caught Brown, cutthroat and Rainbow trout with a bunch of mountain white fish all on the fly. I stuck with my spinning rod and while I didn't have the numbers Rob did, the size of the fish I caught made up for it. I caught a fat 21 inch brown that is a new personal best for me for that species. I'm still looking for that 25 inch or bigger brown to hang on my wall. I also got to try out a new toy my wife got me for Christmas. It's a video head-cam in HD. This unit is in my opinion the best thing since the Cowboys won the super bowl! The only bad thing wasI forgot to charge it all the way and it died about 10 minutes before I hooked into the monster brown. As soon as I get good with editing and formating, I'll be able to start posting video as well as pictures of my fishing trips!

15" Brown

Some of Rob's mountain white fish.

My only mountain white fish of the day.

Christmas Vacation, Ice Fishing Style

I got a week off from work over the Christmas holiday and got to finally go ice fishing. On the first outing, Rob and I met up and headed to East Canyon Res. We started fishing at 7:30 am and caught around 40 rainbows that ranged from 12-16 inches. Pink or White Jammin Jigs tipped with wax worms were the ticket. We found the fish in 10-12 ft.
Rob Couldn't go the next day, so I made a solo run down to Palisade Res. I've had great success here in the past and that was the story again. started fishing around 8 am using pink Jammin Jigs tipped with a mill worm and slammed them. The bite was super lite so a wire bobber is a must. without one, I would have never felt a single bite. I landed 26 rainbows and 1 tiny tiger trout. the rainbows were in the 12-14 inch range. Palisade holds huge tigers but I couldn't find them.
On Wednesday I met back up with Rob and headed to Causey Res. We couldn't seem to really find the fish. We ended up with 20 fish landed, most of which were small tiger trout. The bite was slow the whole day. Our main reason for going there was to try and get into some kokanee salmon. Rob had caught them through the ice before but it wasn't in the cards for us this trip. Overall, the 3 days of fishing were great! It was nice to finally be able to get out on the hard deck and ice some fish.

First bow of the ice season from East Canyon.

Another bow from East Canyon.

A funky colored bow from Palisade.

Small tiger trout from Causey.