Back Down South

Hopefully the same Kings of Leon song is going through your head as mine while I departed on this journey last Friday after work.  Last summer and this spring I had spent some time fishing in Southern Utah and the opportunity came knocking for another trip so therefore it happened.

We arrived at camp after dark the first night so it was nice to have previously been in the area to have an idea of where to set up camp.  The following morning after a couple mile hike this was the scene.

10,000 feet
These were the fish
Clean release with a midge in the back

After catching more fish then we could count and discovering both of our waders were leaking which is a little chilly this time of year we decided to warm the blood and hike to another lake.

Still cold here

The original plan was to spend another night at 10,000 feet, but we kinda didn’t want to freeze through another night so we took off to a lower elevation.  After taking some real good beer drinking roads we arrived at night two’s camp well after dark again.  This place however was new to me so we had to spend some time on figuring out a spot to camp.

We awoke to this
We fished for these
Lots of wild trout on hoppers
The definition of pocket water

After catching more fish then you could shake a stick at we thought the only topper to this trip would be catching a hog.

So we went here
We caught this
and another one of these!?!
And a couple of hogs on streamers

Then we went home, but it was a three day weekend for me so I grabbed the dogs and went out for another day.

Tala fell off this rock ledge in the background, but was obviously unscathed.
I was fishing this hole until these guys showed up
The kids let me catch some fish, but I'd have to shoo Bandit out of the water when I was trying to land the fish because he kept on chasing them down in the river
After a while they become good fishin' dogs
Until next trip...

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