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Uintas to Utah Lake (Tiger Trout Torture) - TyeDyeTwins - 07-30-2011 From my twin.... "As climbers we have made the pilgrimage to the Unita's year after year, but we never bothered to fish the place. Today I decided to break that trend and see how I could do with the fishing rods. Went to Cystal Lake Trailhead with the mountain bike intent on making it to the further out lakes. What a mistake. For a pro rider it is a decent trail but for a guy with a bad knee who is scared of falling it sucked. After getting my feet wet at the river that feeds Lake Washington, I saw way too many signs of life in the pool above the bridge to pass it by. I unpacked and rigged up my Gold Blue Fox spinner size 2. I got a bite as soon as it hit the water so I was ready for some action. As I was about to make my 2nd cast I saw a large fish boil that just would not stop. Excited I kept casting. Pretty soon I noticed that there was a bobber above the fish. Then I saw the fishing line and a pole. I looked around....nobody here. (Edited) how could a fisherman forget his pole? I kept fishing and later on a guy came out of the bushes with his kids and his grandpa. I asked,"hey is that your pole? There's a fish on it!" His eyes lit up and he yelled for the grand kids to come over. The dad would NOT LET THEM saying they needed to help wash dishes first!!! After yelling at his son for being a bad dad he told me, "I guess campers and fisherman have different goals." The kids started to yell, then cry. Knowing fish HATE crying I moved down to the inlet of Washington Lake. Seeing tons of Tiger Trouts cruzing and boiling I made my way over to a point past the inlet. I threw out a worm under the bobber and put a Gold Blue Fox #2 on my 2nd pole. As soon as the spinner hit the water the Tiger Trout turned into SHARKS! Swimming as fast as they could at the spinner they would touch it, shake and swim off! Meanwhile the bobber was not getting even a bite. After watching the specticle of Tigers chasing my spinner I still had no takers so I moved to a size 0. Still biters but no takers. Put a nightcrawler on and all the Tigers lost interest. Took the nightcrawler back off and the bites were back on. After 3 hours of watching the Tiger Trout play "touch and go" my reel broke and I lost the upper half of my 1st fishing rod. Now the rod lies at the bottom of Washinton Lake. Watching the thunderheads develope I got on my mountain bike and headed back to my car. While biking back a running deer got within 2 feet of my handle bars! With the thunderheads popping up I hit Dicks Drive In and decided to hit Utah Lake. When I got to Saratoga the thunderheads were practically following me. I set up a new spinnerbait with a nightcrawler and with the 2nd (busted, and broken) rig I sunk a worm on the bottom. Should not have done that because sure enough I look over and the line was straight on the broken rig. With no way to reel the fish in, I bit the line and attempted to play tug a war with the fish. Sure enough the line broke. Switched rig #1 to worm under a bobber and bam got a big bite but had no return. By then the rain started and the lightning show began. This week has been unkind to my gear (pontoon leak, broken reels, half a rod gone). A guy told me at UL that, "it beats a day of work though right". To which I replied, "at least if I had a job I could pay for all this broken gear!" I must say tho....it still beats recovering 3 weeks in a bed from a knee surgery! A Tiger Trout who was telling me "catch me if you can" The Tiger Trout rising sequence 1 of 2 Peek a boo I see you (sequence 2 of 2) Tiger Trout are such posers. [signature] Re: [TyeDyeTwins] Uintas to Utah Lake (Tiger Trout Torture) - CRM801 - 07-30-2011 [] you sure have had a rough couple of outings. I'm just curious is there anything in your fishing arsenal besides a blue fox lol. I definitely prefer a panther martin over a blue fox but I haven't thrown a spinner in years. [signature] Re: [CRM801] Uintas to Utah Lake (Tiger Trout Torture) - wannabefisher - 07-30-2011 [quote CRM801][] you sure have had a rough couple of outings. I'm just curious is there anything in your fishing arsenal besides a blue fox lol. I definitely prefer a panther martin over a blue fox but I haven't thrown a spinner in years.[/quote] TyeDye is dead on with the #2 gold Blue Fox. That spinner is a trout slayer especially in that type of environment, I picked up on it a few years ago. Thanks to the 'trout whisperer', LOAH. [signature] Re: [CRM801] Uintas to Utah Lake (Tiger Trout Torture) - TyeDyeTwins - 07-30-2011 Rough indeed! We like roostertail spinners too![]Mostly for warm water species though. As you can see we are very fond of the spinners. We have 1 or 2 panther martins but I have only got 1 smallmouth bass on it in 2 years so we quit throwing them. In the winter we love jigs and sometimes ice flies. Fly fishing has produced very little in the fishing department for the 3 years of dedication we put into it. I have been building up my marabou jig department and I have gotten into the wacky and drop shots rigs for worms just this week. I forgot to mention I like the little jakes and kastmaster as well. Fishing has endless combinations and always seems to be a process of elimination to find what works. That is probably why it is such a great market for the fish sales.[laugh] [signature] Re: [TyeDyeTwins] Uintas to Utah Lake (Tiger Trout Torture) - grndfisher - 07-30-2011 Great photos! I enjoy reading your posts. Good story with good information as well. [signature]