Days to Remember - March 25, 2010

March has been one of my favorite times to hit the Provo. Once the blue wings start coming off, the fish seem to crawl out of where ever the heck they like to hide in the winter and start eating. I decided to hit my favorite spot on the lower provo, of which I can't disclose, and it was amazing! I had once heard a guy say he had caught 50+ fish in one day, and I just kinda laughed because I didn't think it was possible.....
I was wrong. I fished for about 4-5 hours and I easily caught 50+ fish, and it could have been more had I landed all of them. I was happy to see fish everywhere! They were active and feeding, and it paid off to have the right fly......thee OLIVE BRASSIE. I even landed about a 18-19 inch rainbow that was hard to get in my net. I also landed my first double!! I was quite surprised as I was fishing a hole, and 2 fish came rolling out and fighting. I wasn't able to take the picture until I finally got them both in my net, but it was pretty cool. Enjoy the pictures, and Gilbert, tie up some olive brassies and use them and you too, will have a day to remember!!!!!

Fish Creek-Early March '10

With how warm the spring has been, I really wanted to get out to fish creek and check out this year's flows there. I even convinced my brother Brad to go with me, despite me worrying about the outflow from the dam. We got there and I was excited to see at least some water coming out of the dam, but it wasn't enough and fishing was fairly difficult. We did manage to pull a few out and still had some fun. We saw a lot of wildlife. Deer, elk, bald eagles, golden eagle(look to pic below, I tried to take pic of it but it flew away before I got a really good pic of it), and lots of ducks. There was also a lot of snow on the ground still. We kinda had a hard time getting downstream to go fishing trying to get through the snow. Snow shoes would have been a big help!

Late Winter FISHING!!!!

Late winter has provided some pretty darn good fishing despite the cold weather. I have fished both the Lower Provo and the Middle Provo, of which I have caught some pretty good browns. I also took a trip to the South Fork of the snake river in early February with Gilbert and a Devin Olsen. We got there and we were lucky enough for it to be beautiful weather, and the fishing was even better. We caught lots of whitefish and even threw in some nice lookin cutts.
Late Winter has also brought me a new way of fishing....the new and only way to nymph. Gilbert had been using this method of czech nymphing with a french style leader setup and I finally jumped on board. The first real time I used it was at south fork and it worked out great for me. In fact, towards the end of the day, we found this long deep stretch of water and we ended up staying there for a good hour catching whitefish. We had to end for two reasons. First, it was starting to get late so we had to start making our way back to car, and second because my arm was so darn tired of pulling in fish. The olive opa worked magic. I am still getting used to this style of nymphing but I am looking foward to learning this way of fishing and catching lots of fish as the warm season is quickly approaching us.


This was my first fish of the day. I had to try my new colored opa and on my fourth of fifth cast, I caught this beauty! The lavender opa is one of new favorites considering it caught a couple other nice fish this day!


This rainbow on the middle took the famous rowley stone!


Gilberts nice Cutt on South Fork


There were midges everywhere and all day on the Lower Provo!


This was probably the best lookin cutt of the day at South Fork and Devin caught it.

ICY Olive PT

This here fly is one of my favorite patterns that I just tied up at the end of this last year and it worked great for me. Its the first video that I have ever made and after viewing it myself, there are a few things I will do to make it a better video in the future. I hope you not only enjoy tying this pattern, but that you also enjoy catching some big fish on this pattern just like I have!!!!! ENJOY!!!!
ps-I realized after that I put the wrong video on and its not good quality at all so I will hopefully put the the right one on soon.

Hook: 12-18 TMC 2488
Bead: Silver tungston 7/64
Tail: Olive pheasant tail fibers
Body: Olive Pheasant tail fibers
Rib: Green BR wire
Thorax: Olive ice dub

ICE FISHING at Strawberry- Dec 09

I decided to hit up Strawberry this last weekend along with some of the Whimpey family and we had a great day fishing. We picked a perfect day to go as far as the weather. It was sunny and had no wind. We caught some good really nice cutts and some smaller rainbows. Here are the pics:

I really wish I could claim this cutt as my own. It was a 23 inch monster. Just bigger than my big cutt. I just had to take a picture with this beast cause it was so big. My wife's bro in law caught this one.

This was my fishing hole that caught two of the big cutts. Even better was my mountain dew cooler.

This was my first big cutt of the day. It was 20 inches, just barely to small to keep!

This was the last cutt of the day. We were just about done fishing when my pole started to move, I grabbed it and reeled in this nice 22 inch cutt!

Idaho Rainbows and even more snow! OCT 09

Me and Gilbert dreamed of hitting up the Henrys Fork of the Snake River, in Idaho. We had heard stories of big rainbows and awesome scenery. We finally had the chance to go up there over the Halloween weekend. We would much rather catch big rainbows than eat candy! As we were getting close to the town and river, we started to get into snow...a lot of snow! In fact, we had to push the jetta through the snow out of some parking lots! We decided to stop in at one the 4(yes 4) fly shops in the little town. and these were not just small fly shops, they were big! The guy in there thought we were crazy for going out in the weather to fish, but as it turned out, we had both stretches of the famous Henrys Fork all to ourselves. We did not even see another soul in two days. It was great. We had fun and even caught some pretty good fish.

Here is Box Canyon, just below the Dam below Island Park.

Here is a stretch of Box Canyon

Rapids of Coffee Pots

Coffee pots rainbow, biggest of the trip by far!

Gilbert, with the second biggest fish we caught on the trip

Coffee pots. Notice the fog.

Here is a cool photo just downstream from coffee pots.

Here is Gilbert, fishing a stretch of Coffee pots

Strawberry Res. Fall 09

Well, we had heard that fishing is really good up at strawberry for some big cutts in the fall and we went to find out. Here are a couple of pics of one I caught and here troy is holding the biggest fish of the day caught on none other than brad's minnow rod. Its puny and it took forever to get this 21 inch cutt in. Troy has a pole but its a pole that is used to catch 15 foot sharks, not 20 inch trout. I have a pic or two of Brad and My old man but I have not recieved those pics and will put them up on here as soon as I get them. We did have fun and caught a good number of cutts and even a rainbow or two. Me, Brad, Troy and my Dad went.

Midway Irrigation pond- Summer 09

Doesn't my wife look so smokin hot with a hat on and a nice fish in her hand? I think she looks smoking hot. The only problem with this day was that she out fished me. Yup. She caught that one fish and I got skunked. Oh well. I am okay with my wife and my wife only out fishing me. No one else can, or is allowed.

Middle Provo Fall 09

The middle provo has been fishing quite well for me this fall. I have hooked into quite a few browns and white fish. This pic here is one that I caught and it was just over 18 inches and has been my big catch out of there this fall.

FISHING DATE WITH WIFE!? July 31, 09

Yes it is true. What is even more incredible is that is was Heidi's idea. I was shocked but very pleased that she wanted to come along and witness how I fish. It was the best date I had ever been on! I think Heidi would say the same. Just take my word on that, you don't need to ask her. Here are some of the pics. I feel bad that I was so busy fishing that I didn't take time to even take a picture of my beautiful wife. I will repent of this when she decides to come with me again. Flows were running pretty good, and with my wife not used to doing this, she fell in. Lucky for her, I was right next to her and I was able grab her arm before she took a swim. She felt good having a strong man like me to save her! HA

Man, my wife takes awesome pictures. This must be a huge fish since I have it on the end of my line!

I guess I look happy to have a fish on the end of my line. The pic above and below are the same fish and Heidi thinks I look happier having a fish on the end of my line than when I see her. I disagree, and say that I look happy with a fish on and when I see her!

Here are a couple of my catches.

Looks like another big boy or kohler brownie with the rod bent like it is!