Category Archives: Utah Trout

Getting out there

Over the past weekend over 700 hundred miles were driven in the pursuit of happiness and splendid isolation.  The weather was beautiful.  Life is all about the journey…

Enjoying the ride
Back where you want to be
Unfortunately, the guide book written ten years ago lied and this GEM of an establishment is no longer open for business

I love seeing everything the state of Utah has to offer so we packed up the car and headed into the incredibly desolate and isolated Northwest corner.

Small freestone stream. No spring runoff this year
FUCKIN' awesome
Trophy huntin'
almost there
Bow and Arrow casting all day

The fishing on this stream was pretty fast for bow and arrow casting, but I had the lady and the dogs with me and they weren’t as excited for the lack of back cast as I was.  So we went site seeing.

City of Rocks
Disappointing, rock climber, hippie establishment in the middle of no where next to a built up hot spring where we had dinner

Probably the place that helped put an end to the Naf cafe.

On the way back to camp from sight seeing, the front tire happened to just so delicately fall off of the Jeep.

6 pm MST. Lost a tire, 70 miles from the nearest real town...no cell service to boot
Sun down in the middle of nowhere

After jerry-rigging the tire back on we drove at 3 mph until we received cell service.  No one at Triple AAA even knew where Naf, Idaho was.  By 11 pm the tow truck arrived.  He wouldn’t drive us the additional ten miles out of the way to our camp, but took us the 70 miles to the nearest town.  From there we met up with Jourdan’s mom who took us back to SLC where we arrived at around 3 in the morning.

The following morning we made the trip back to Naf to retrieve our camping and fishing gear from our campsite.  The good thing about being in the middle of nowhere in the west is everything was there the following day.

To be at this place in its prime

 

 

Road Closed

After hitting the road for another day on the river, I came across a gate still closed for the winter.  It was a two mile hike to get to the stream over a mountain pass, which sucked.

Wildlife along the way
Cutthroat

When I finally came upon the stream, the snow melt had already turned the river murky for the day.  Caught one fish and tried for a while longer, but the fishing had turned off.

Bandito was pooped on the stroll back

Green River next week.

Downtown Brown Town

The notorious El Jefe livin' the dream
You get worried landing these bad boys on zebra midges
Big nets put to good use
Ted took his time on this one
To the victor go the spoils