03-10-2003, 05:19 PM
Fished the Weber River both above and below Taggart on Saturday. It was a beautiful day with occasional gusty winds and some decent fishing. Overall I caught 6 whitefish between 12 and 16 in. 1 small brown of about 10 in. and my first Utah sucker (23 in and 4lbs) on a fly rod. Actually, I snagged the sucker in the side out of deep pool and for a while thought it might be the monster brown of the river! The fight it put up was well worth the ugly fish though. When I got home my wife asked why I didn't bring such a monster home and cook it! [crazy] I finally had to find a picture of one so she could see exactly why. I used several different nymphs all day on sinking line, but the only setup that was producing was a prince nymph followed by a pheasant tail. All of the fish ended up taking the pheasant tail. I would have probably caught more, but my rambunctious black labs always wanted to explore the pool I was fishing first.[
] There were also a few small midges on the water, but no fish rising so it didn't seem to be worth the switch to a dry rig.
~mc
] There were also a few small midges on the water, but no fish rising so it didn't seem to be worth the switch to a dry rig. ~mc