04-12-2004, 11:13 AM
[cool][blue][size 1]TO KENT: I have caught every species of fish in Utah Lake on flies...including a couple of suckers I snagged. [/size][/blue]
[#0000ff][size 1]TO LEAKY: I should be back up there before the end of this year. I'll be happy to have a couple of tying sessions and we can put together a fly fishing flotilla for anyone silly enough to want to do it.The more the merrier. Verbal instructions can only take it so far. There is nothing like getting out and doing it to get the "reel feel" of the deal.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]TO DON: That black bugger pictured...with the red head and red Krystal Flash...is also an adaptation of one of my favorite steelhead flies. It became my favorite night fishing fly in Utah for big trout after dark. And the red and black is a good largemouth color. I could say almost the same words for both the black and white, black and purple and purple and white combos. Good for steelhead and good for Utah fishies of several species.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]TO GLASSYEYEDGUY: I have also seen a lot of folks fish fruitlessly with a flyrod...in many places. I didn't catch many in Utah Lake myself at first. And, I can still blank with the worst of them. Fishing flies is no guarantee of success, but merely another arrow in the quiver, so to speak.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Let's face it, most of the folks who show up with fly rods are probably rigged for trout and use patterns and techniques more fitting to that species. Some will work, when the fish are in and active, but more often they leave frustrated.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]I have also seen tons and bunches of folks fish Utah Lake with spinning tackle, baitcasting, cane poles and handlines who only caught a cold or a lot of mosquito bites. As an experienced angler who knows the lake well, you doubtlessly realize that tackle and lures alone are no guarantee of success. [/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]I still subscribe to the theory that you can catch more fish on the wrong lures...fishing them the right way in the right place...than you can with the right lures fished wrong or in the wrong place.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Utah Lake is definitely an example of a 90/10 water. At any given time, over 90% of the fish can be found in only 10% of the lake. To fish anywhere the fish are not is to wash lures and drown bait fruitlessly. It is no wonder that so many people have such a poor impression of poor old Utah Lake.[/size][/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]TO LEAKY: I should be back up there before the end of this year. I'll be happy to have a couple of tying sessions and we can put together a fly fishing flotilla for anyone silly enough to want to do it.The more the merrier. Verbal instructions can only take it so far. There is nothing like getting out and doing it to get the "reel feel" of the deal.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]TO DON: That black bugger pictured...with the red head and red Krystal Flash...is also an adaptation of one of my favorite steelhead flies. It became my favorite night fishing fly in Utah for big trout after dark. And the red and black is a good largemouth color. I could say almost the same words for both the black and white, black and purple and purple and white combos. Good for steelhead and good for Utah fishies of several species.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]TO GLASSYEYEDGUY: I have also seen a lot of folks fish fruitlessly with a flyrod...in many places. I didn't catch many in Utah Lake myself at first. And, I can still blank with the worst of them. Fishing flies is no guarantee of success, but merely another arrow in the quiver, so to speak.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Let's face it, most of the folks who show up with fly rods are probably rigged for trout and use patterns and techniques more fitting to that species. Some will work, when the fish are in and active, but more often they leave frustrated.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]I have also seen tons and bunches of folks fish Utah Lake with spinning tackle, baitcasting, cane poles and handlines who only caught a cold or a lot of mosquito bites. As an experienced angler who knows the lake well, you doubtlessly realize that tackle and lures alone are no guarantee of success. [/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]I still subscribe to the theory that you can catch more fish on the wrong lures...fishing them the right way in the right place...than you can with the right lures fished wrong or in the wrong place.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Utah Lake is definitely an example of a 90/10 water. At any given time, over 90% of the fish can be found in only 10% of the lake. To fish anywhere the fish are not is to wash lures and drown bait fruitlessly. It is no wonder that so many people have such a poor impression of poor old Utah Lake.[/size][/#0000ff]
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