09-29-2003, 05:56 PM
We fished the Mirror Lake highway (Upper Provo) around the Soapstone area. Fished both above and below the Soapstone turnoff. In the morning we fished with fly rods and only UncleRay caught anything, one small Brookie I had numerous bites but no hook-ups, my daughter couldn't get her technique working and decided flyfishing was no fun this day.
After lunch my daughter and I changed to our spinning rigs and thats when the action heated up. Dakota (my daughter) ended the day catching 16 and keeping her limit. I had the hot hand and caught 40+ including 2 really nice rainbows both about 14". UncleRay ended the day with 3 fish all on his 1 weight fly rod but the last one which was his biggest about 12" was on a fly tipped with a worm.
We fished from about 8:30 am to about noon with fly rigs and from noon until just about 5:00 pm on spinning rigs.
All we used was a worm. No weights no bubbles. Followed stream bed fishing the deeper channels just tossing the worm above the holes and under logs and bank cuts. In some holes the catch rate was one every five minutes other times we'd walk 100 ft to the next bite all in all we covered as the crow flies about 400 yards, but along the river was easily 2-3 times that distance.
I brought my digital camera, but the batterries died right after we took a couple pics of the fall colors. No extra batteries werre available. I'll post pics of the fish on the counter just before I can the fish.
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After lunch my daughter and I changed to our spinning rigs and thats when the action heated up. Dakota (my daughter) ended the day catching 16 and keeping her limit. I had the hot hand and caught 40+ including 2 really nice rainbows both about 14". UncleRay ended the day with 3 fish all on his 1 weight fly rod but the last one which was his biggest about 12" was on a fly tipped with a worm.
We fished from about 8:30 am to about noon with fly rigs and from noon until just about 5:00 pm on spinning rigs.
All we used was a worm. No weights no bubbles. Followed stream bed fishing the deeper channels just tossing the worm above the holes and under logs and bank cuts. In some holes the catch rate was one every five minutes other times we'd walk 100 ft to the next bite all in all we covered as the crow flies about 400 yards, but along the river was easily 2-3 times that distance.
I brought my digital camera, but the batterries died right after we took a couple pics of the fall colors. No extra batteries werre available. I'll post pics of the fish on the counter just before I can the fish.
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