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Utah Trout, Wild Trout Streams

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

 

 

The Green River

Going Green For Twenty Twelve

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Great food and service with a smile at Spring Creek Guest Ranch

Rumor had it the fishing was good on the Green River in late March.  Therefore, a weekend trip had to be made to assess the situation for myself.  An A and B trip was the plan and we took off after work on Sunday to get on the river first thing Monday morning.  Instead of camping that first night, we got a room at the Spring Creek Guest Ranch and stayed in luxury.

There’s something awe inspiring about rivers large enough to take a drift boat down that gets you every time.  Especially one with such a robust history of exploration as the Green River.  Although the river is nothing like it looked like in the 1800’s, mans’ impact has made the Green River below Flaming Gorge one of the most prolific trout fisheries in the United States.

Ted and Aaron stopping to fish an eddy
Healthy brown
Ted showing us how its done

After copious quantities of alcohol and several fish, day one had to come to a close.  Beautiful weather and the most ridiculous midge hatch I had ever seen we’re some of the highlights of the day.  Below are some from the night and the following day.

Jefe taking it all in by the fire
Best dinner on the river I've ever had
Best breakfast I've ever had on a river trip all thanks to Ted
Aaron getting prepared for Day 2
Jefe examining Matt's catch
Day 2 also had a pretty incredible midge hatch

Matt admiring his catch on his hand crafted YUM

All good things have to come to an end

In closing, the rumors aren’t true and you probably shouldn’t come here.

 

Utah Trout

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.