Showing posts with label Y-Weber River. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Y-Weber River. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Weber River 05-09-2012
My neighbor Zach recently took up fly fishing, so we made a run to the Weber river. It was a nice day and the river looked really good, but we had a hard time getting the fish to cooperate with us. We ended up catching two or three each, and got in a lot of casting practice.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Weber River 2-27-2010
During the week I had been thinking about going fishing on Saturday, but the weather forecast was showing rain. So I was surprised when I woke to partly cloudy skies. Linda had to work, so I did a few things around the house then headed for the Weber River.
The river was running low and clear, as I approached I could see fish in the deeper pools.
The first fish I caught was a whitefish, so I pumped its stomach to see what they were feeding on. Its diet consisted mostly of mayfly nymphs (baetis), cased caddis, and a few midge larva. The fly I was using (shown in the second picture) is a midge larva imitation it's about 3/8" long, a giant compared to the naturals.
NOTE: Click on the Pictures to Enlarge.
I put on a smaller fly (seen in the center of the first picture)that was a little closer in size and color to the bugs that came from another screening this time from the river bed. I caught a few fish on the smaller fly, but most of the fish were taking the larger fly shown next to a golden stonefly nymph that was in the screen sample.
I took another sample from a riffle further upstream , and was surprised to see so many stoneflies. The largest one was about 1.5 inches long, from tip of tail to tip of antenna.
Endded up catching (18) whitefish and (6) browns. The largest brown was 15-16 inches long.
When I returned home, I took some picture of
the bugs and the flies I used.
Golden Stonefly Nymphs
Cased Caddis
Mayfly Nymphs - Baetis
Midge Larva
The river was running low and clear, as I approached I could see fish in the deeper pools.
The first fish I caught was a whitefish, so I pumped its stomach to see what they were feeding on. Its diet consisted mostly of mayfly nymphs (baetis), cased caddis, and a few midge larva. The fly I was using (shown in the second picture) is a midge larva imitation it's about 3/8" long, a giant compared to the naturals.
NOTE: Click on the Pictures to Enlarge.
I put on a smaller fly (seen in the center of the first picture)that was a little closer in size and color to the bugs that came from another screening this time from the river bed. I caught a few fish on the smaller fly, but most of the fish were taking the larger fly shown next to a golden stonefly nymph that was in the screen sample.
I took another sample from a riffle further upstream , and was surprised to see so many stoneflies. The largest one was about 1.5 inches long, from tip of tail to tip of antenna.
Endded up catching (18) whitefish and (6) browns. The largest brown was 15-16 inches long.
When I returned home, I took some picture of
the bugs and the flies I used.
Golden Stonefly Nymphs
Cased Caddis
Mayfly Nymphs - Baetis
Midge Larva
Monday, September 7, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Weber River & Chalk Creek 8-22-2009
Sam and I decided to get away from the heat in the valley, and headed up to some local mountain streams. First we hit the weber to do some nymphing for browns.
Weber River
After catching a few browns, we went to wet wade chalk creek to see if we could coax some its fiesty cutthroats into some top water action using hoppers.
Chalk Creek
Weber River
After catching a few browns, we went to wet wade chalk creek to see if we could coax some its fiesty cutthroats into some top water action using hoppers.
Chalk Creek
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