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2010 Turkey Hunt

As you can see from the pictures it was a successful turkey hunt this year. I have drawn out on tags in the past, but have not taken a turkey until this year. I put in for the earlier hunt and I was one of 400 people that got a tag for the northern region of Utah. I have not been able to go hunting until today, but it was worth every minute of the wait. It was an early start to the day I left the house at 4:15 and drove to the hunting area. Once there I had to hike into the spot that I wanted to hunt, all of this done in the dark. I set up and waited only a few minutes before I started to hear the turkeys calling back and forth to each other. I then realized that I was going to be in the wrong area to get a shot. I waited until the turkeys went below some trees and made a move to better ground. I got in place just in time, but I was about 25 yards to far to the left of the main group of turkeys. So once again I waited until they moved to a spot that they could not see me and I snuck down the hill and moved more to the north. This time when I came up the hill I was in the perfect spot. With about twenty hens (female turkeys) and two toms (male turkeys) I was ready. The turkeys where moving my way all I had to do is wait until the big one was all by his self and boom, he was down. My first turkey!! It was awesome. To bad I was all by myself and had no one to enjoy the moment with, but I at least had the camera and a timer. So the family will be having turkey for dinner tonight, and I will be able to tie more fishing flies with the feathers. It was great and I cant wait until next year.

Steelhead Trip 2010 "Success"

To start off this post I want to begin in saying that when we started thinking about going to "try" and catch some steelhead I was a little bit unsure of going in the fact that the steelhead fish is a "fish of a 1000 casts". All I could think about was how sore my arm was going to be after casting my fly rod that many times to maybe catch a steelhead. Well for our trip a 1000 casts was not correct. The first three people in our group Alan, Russ and Rob got to the fishing area by Clayton, Idaho a few hours before us and had all ready caught 4 fish. Chase and I where pumped so we got on our gear and got in the water, within 10 min we had both landed a steelhead. It was awesome. We noticed that all of the worm dunkers/lead casters where fishing under this bridge below us, so eventually we moved down once some of the other fisherman moved out. Success was upon us. We caught fish after fish, all of us caught fish. It was great! I think we figured on the first day of fishing between the five of us we landed about 30 fish!!!, and lost or broke off at least half of that. All of the fish where in the 24 inch plus range with the biggest measuring close to 34 inch's. Everyone spirits where high and so glad that we all caught some of the biggest fish of our lives. Side note the big fish was my fish (Dave) and it took me 20-25 min. to get the big boy in. When I finally saw the fish in the net and really got to look at him I could not believe how big he was, I lost my breath I was so excited. It was AWESOME.

Second day after a stay at the Village Inn in Challis, Idaho we decided to head higher up to the Yankee Fork area of the Salmon River. The water was allot colder up here and there seemed to be not allot of places to catch fish. Boy where we wrong. We found an area that you could see the fish in the bottom of the river and started casting to them. Chase found the area and had three fish landed before we knew what was going on. Rob then followed and the fun was on again. We ended up switching out on this small spot and caught a bunch of fish. A wormdunker told us that he had seen people getting tickets in the area that we where fishing so we decided to take off before this happened to us. We ended up going down to the area that we fished the night before. The fishing was not as good, someone told us that when the water temps hit around 40 the fish will move upstream to cooler water. So we did not do as well, but we still caught a fish. We ended up catching about 25 fish that day. So about 50 fish total for a day and a half of fishing for five guys.

Side not on the way to Idaho Falls, we stopped and ate dinner at Pickles Place in Arco, Idaho great food, and the best spices that you can put on your food. I would recommend stopping there when you get a chance.

Saturday was fishing on the Henry's Fork. We floated down from the Vernon Bridge to the Chester Diversion. The fishing was not really all that good. It might have been that we did not have the right bugs, but we all at least caught a fish or two. It was a big let down from the steelhead fishing the past two days, but it was nice to get out and do a float.

Everyone seemed to have a great time and are planning the trip for next year as we speak.

Thanks Rob for convincing us to go and catch some of the funnest fish I have ever gone after.

Steelhead Trip this Week

Just to let you all know I will be trying to catch a steelhead this week, trying being the word. I have heard it is a fish of a 1000 casts. I just hope to catch at least one. I will make sure and post what success we do have it any. Wish us luck!!

Weber River

This last Saturday I had the bug to go fishing. I know Idaho is best for this, but sometimes you have to settle for something a little bit closer. So Chase and I went and fished the Weber river right at the mouth of Weber Canyon. It was a really nice day weather wise, the sun was out, not allot of wind, you get the picture. Well we ended up catching 4 fish total, three browns and one rainbow. The water was a little low but there were still some holes to fish, the only problem was that there was only one fish per hole, at least that is what our story is. It was still nice to get out and get the line wet. Not bad for only being 15 min from my house. We took the picture with my cell phone, that is all we had, but it took a desent picture. We might have to try this place latter in the season to see if we can catch more fish. I did screen the river and there were plenty of bugs in the river, they looked like really small stone flys maybe in a size 14, so we used copper johns and pheasant tails, I think a hairsear would have worked well also.

Henrys Feb 2010

Finally a day of fishing on the Henry's Fork in Idaho. We like to hit this part of the river in the winter time because the fish get stacked up in one area and not allot of people are out in the cold. The day started out with a little fun getting stuck in the truck and having to put on chains eventually to get the truck out. Thank goodness we did have chains or it could have been a really long day. The weather was also interesting, at the start of the day it was very overcast and there was supposed to be a storm coming in. So much for the storm, it turned out to be very sunny and nice and warm for Idaho, it was probably about 33 degrees. The fishing was good as well everyone caught fish some more than others but I think if we added all of the fish up that was caught for the day we would have somewhere between 100 to 125 fish caught for the group. Granted most of those fish were small and Rob likes to pad his numbers but what can I say it was a good day. As usual the rubber leg fly worked well along with different kinds of midge patterns. To top off the trip on the way back to the truck we could see the Tetons sticking up out of the clouds. And of course a fishing trip to Idaho would not be complete without a stay at G and G bed and breakfast. Good times had by all.

The best fishing dog

I think every fisherman out there would love to have a dog like this dog.