Kind of unusually quite here. This is the time we should all be out on the cool water!
I have been working a bunch, but still managing at least a couple of fishing trips for ME a week.
I have been mainly deep nymphing because of the Vegetation in a lot of lakes being so high.
Just drop the flies right down in the clearing.
Anyway, here is some eye candy for you all, different times and places.
Nice!
Where’d you get that net?
FT
Actually, it is an Orvis long handle that came with cloth basket. I hated the basket, loved the net so I recently re-basket it with a ghost basket. Still not sure. People say the ghost net doesn’t scare fish…I question that when you are dragging them into it. And the bigger holes are meant not to get hooks caught, but my #14’s were getting caught. All in all, it is an awesome net.
Where/who did you get your ghost basket from? I have an old Brodin boat net that has the old mesh in it, and I’d like to replace the netting with the rubber stuff.
I have an older wooden net with a cloth mesh that needs to be replaced. Can the net be replaced on this?
Yes. All nets are somewhat the same size. You just need to measure and get as close to it as you can. My “Orvis” net was a little odd on the size, but the large basket fit perfect.
Thats good, I thought I would have to buy a whole new net. I like my old wooden net especially for wading and stuff.
Found it, here is where I got mine:
http://www.fishwest.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=BR52RNBA
Thanks FG. Perfect! One is on the way.
Great photos !!! Thank you
Peter
You have sure had some good and successful trips lately! I am going to have to go and find a few of those nice fish myself. Except mine always seem about half that size. Maybe it has to do with me only having half as much skill!! As soon as I can drag myself off the mountainsides and back on the still water that is. I am so easy distracted by the lure of dirt roads and cow paths. — It must be a sickness!
Seriously nice fish, FG!!!
It doesn’t always come easy and BIG. We hit a little lake today that we have not hit in a long time.
I love to deep nymph and I love being out on the water as long as the weather permits.
I like to fish rivers and streams, but I love being on my boat and I can only do that for a limited time, so yes, I do as much as I can.
Utah Fly Drifters is even now adding guided stillwater trips.
Anyway, this lake, I had four pull the indicator, but come off just short of the boat. I thought for sure, I was going home with a clean net. Then hubby lands one, then the guy that just went past in a tube…ARGH!!!
I was getting the fish to take my chironomid, but they kept coming off…
I switched to a little different color and a tad smaller…waited to watch the indictor bounce a little, then when it went subsurface, I pulled the line with my left hand, then lifted the rod tip…WAHOO! I now have the timing down and landed several, but these were little guys.
No not the Uinta’s…those guys would have been inhaling these flies, up there. This lake is a little more technical and BEAUTIFUL>
What a wonderful Sunday and we are going to hit this spot more.
