For the last couple of years most of my fishing has revolved around
the bass boat I purchased several years ago. It is still mostly fly
fishing, but, because of my bad knee (the one I had replaced three
months ago, I haven't been doing much river fishing for the last few
years.
Anyway, on the trip I took with my wife to Southern Utah last week, I
threw in my fly rod and some fly boxes, thinking to make some casts in
some alpine lakes up in the mountains above Cedar City. We stopped at
one called "Duck Creek Pond", and I made a few casts with no success.
Then we did some exploring and hiking to an interesting natural
feature where a large lake, called Navajo Lake has its only outlet,
which comes gushing out of a crack in a red rock cliff two miles below
the Lake! Pretty cool. Anyway, we were exploring some more in the
truck, and I decided to pull of the road into a well used parking area
next to a small stream called Duck Creek. The river was small and
beautiful, with some nice looking holes, but also a well worn trail
along its banks, obviously a place that gets a lot of pressure. I
thought "what the heck", and tied on my usual river rig, a hares ear
with a size 18 BHPT dropper. I started "high sticking" without weight
through a run, and to my surprise, picked up a feisty 12 inch rainbow.
I proceeded to add more weight getting deeper into the run, and picked
up four more from that same hole, the largest being 15 inches. Then I
moved up stream to the next nice hole, did the same and picked up five
more! All in about 40 minutes while my wife took a nap in the car.
It felt good to know I still "had it"! And that was about 10 more
fish that I have caught in my last two outings in my boat!
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