Bug Pictures

This year I have been able to take some cool pictures of aquatic invertebrates. Both of the adults and the larvae/nymphs. They are so cool!Salmonfly Adult
Damselfly adult
Callibaetis spinner
Drake nymph
Callibaetis dun

Bugs

Here are a few more of my favorite bug pictures from this year. It's amazing what all fish eat!Caddis adult
Mayfly spinner
Damselfly adult
Mayfly spinner

Caddis Larva

Diamond Fork Double!

I fished upper Diamond Fork this weekend in the rain. I got lucky and landed this double, two beautiful cutthroats.
There has been some massive stonefly hatches up there recently. They were everywhere! The fish are looking up for them so I was able to take a few on stimulators. Can't wait to get back down there one of these weekends!

Chesterfield Rainbows

Uncle Kimble and I fished a couple of lakes in Idaho this last weekend, and we had a blast! It wasn't the fastest fishing action, but we did land a couple of fat, strong rainbows. Kimble gave me some float tubing tips, and he made me a healthy, delicious roast beef sandwich for lunch (should have taken a picture of it, dang:) what a great guy! Thanks again Uncle Kimble! 

New Flies for 2009

Here are a few of my latest creations. This fly has been extremely effective this spring, and it has probably found a permanent spot in my fly box. It is similar to a Prince Nymph because of the white biots tied over the back. It has pheasant tail fibers for the tail, red wire, black dibbing for the body, partridge for the legs, and red thread used for the collar. The black tungsten bead adds weight, and ties in the consistent black color. Size 16 has been my favorite size, but it could be tied in other sizes as well. It has been making fish nervous this spring all over Utah.
I have not had a chance to fish these next two flies. This top fly is designed to look like the stonefly family Isoperla. It is tied with lead on the shank, natural biots, fine gold wire, superfine yellow dubbing, swiss straw/thin skin for the wing case, and rubber legs tied in around the thorax. For the two black lines along the abdomen I used a fine tip permanent marker and drew them on. Sizes from 12 to 16. I am excited to try this pattern in some cool, clean, well oxygenated streams where these stoneflies are abundant. 
Very similar to the fly above, this is a darker pattern also tied to imitate stoneflies, but of other families such as the perlidae (golden stones). I used natural biots, fine gold wire, a blend of black and yellow superfine dubbings for the abdomen, swiss straw/thinskin for the wing case, peacock ice dubbing for the thorax, and rubber legs tied in and dubbed over. Once agin with a golden bead. Sizes from 8 to 14.

All of these flies are very easy to tie, and hopefully they will prove to be effective in catching trout. 

Fish Creek

The quality isn't the best, it was a bright day and things ended up a little over exposed. I balanced my camera on a rock and went to fishing. It was a great day fishing. It was such a nice day I actually got sunburned. First burn of the year! In the video I pull a couple of browns from the honey hole. This was the beginning of the day, and it just got better as the day went on.

Snowy Day in Paradise!

With reports of Lower Fish creek being dewatered, Kohler and I had to check it out for ourselves being that it is one of our favorite streams to fish. The flows were low but ideal for some early spring fishing. It snowed on us all day, but that didn't seem to bother the fish. They never stopped bitting!
We landed some beautiful fish. Fat and healthy! The stream is full of sow bugs and it was apparent the fish have all been gorging themselves for a while now.
This was Kohler's second fish of the day. It was a monster, roughly 19 inches! We had a few other lunkers on during the day, but this was the only one over 18 inches landed. Way to go Kohler! Or should I say: Parabens Jorge!!