Pics of your favorite fly water

[mandm1516]

flywgn,

I've never run into any Graylings--in the Uintas I seem to catch mostly brook trout. Also never fished Calf Creek but putting it on my list of places to look up.

Mike

[FlyJester]

Nice photos all.

"mandm1516", did you run into grayling in those Uinta Mts?

Allen R

P.S. for Utah flyfishers: Have any of you fished Calf Ck lately?

A.

I have...nothing on the big side..cool fish though.


Never been to Calf Creek....is it in Northern or Southern Utah?

[constructeur]

[Lively]

A few of my favorite

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[bat]

I have not fished in years but those are some great pictures

[ssssnake529]

[Hafwit]

This is a hard one to answer--so many choices to choose from. Here are a few of my favorites.

Cheers,
Greg

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[flywgn]

I have...nothing on the big side..cool fish though.


Never been to Calf Creek....is it in Northern or Southern Utah?

Between Escalante and Boulder. It's not a place you'd normally look for trout. I stumbled across the fishery years ago when Diana and I stopped to take the hike up to Calf Ck Falls (worth the hike just for that) and take a quick dip in the pool at the bottom of the falls.

I noticed beaver dams and pools and rising fish. Stunned, I returned to the truck and rigged up a 4wt with some light tippet thinking maybe a brookie or so. Wrong. After losing the first couple of hook-ups I re-tied with stronger tippet. Each of the fish had dived (a good sign that you might just be onto a brown trout). Browns they were and nice, strong, wild ones.

After I'd released a couple of fish ~14-15" long and several smaller ones in the 12" range
a F&G agent "happened" along. I had a license to show him, but we talked at length about this short fishery (maybe 2 miles long???). He just laughed and said that it's one of Utah's best-kept secrets. When I casually mentioned that I might submit an article to a publication about it he warned me that a lot of Utah fly-fishers might want my head. I understood what he meant. This creek is fragile and could be destroyed by heavy fishing, so when I did write the article (this was early '80s) about my trip to Utah I mentioned it only in passing and not in detail and spent more column inches on the upper Green River.

I returned to fish it once two years after the first visit, and I was just wondering if any of you Utah fishers had been on it lately. I know that there were larger browns in it than the ones I released. A couple of those beaver ponds backed up sizeable pools and there was plenty of feed. Hard to fish it in mid-summer. The heat pushes the fish deep in the pools and they're reluctant to rise to a dry. Nymphs are the answer then...not my preference, but better than no fish.

I'll see if I have a photo or transparency that I can scan but no promises.

Allen R

[ocean_explorer]

West slope cutthroat country in northern Idaho.

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[TimW]

East Walker River in NV.

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