Everybody loves a good fish story, and this one is a fun one. AS you can see in this picture, we'd headed out for a little extreme weather fishing, as a die-hard fisherman is want to do at times. No time of the year is a bad time to fish. If there's water and fish, fish it. That's our motto, our mantra, the single fishing rule Fish This lives by. So with that in mind, we trekked ourselves into the snowy backcountry, chains fixed to the poorly treaded tires of the Fish This Buick (not pictured).
The Strawberry River in Utah is a small, medium-flow river, with deep cut, over-hanging banks that should get any fisherman very excited. In the late spring and summer, this river is a beautiful, engaging river full of Brown Trout. In the winter, well, it's a bit of a different story, but Fish This likes a challenge.
The snow was deep, the top two or three inches, a thick crusty layer of ice, but we layered-up, slipped on the waders and plunged into the freezing water. Ice jutted out from the shore, making the overhangs we were accustomed to even more pronounced. We fished the river with patience, KnowOne, me, and our guest fisherman Neal, knowing the fish were going to be slow moving and not all that hungry, but we knew the fish were there, often seeing them swim lazily out of whatever hole they'd nestled into as we passed by.
The hunt continued through the morning and into the afternoon, and as we moved from an area of deep holes in the corners of lazy bends in the river and into a flatland, shallow water, KnowOne hooked into the only catch of the day.
Now, KnowOne isn't pictured holding the fish. That's me, Idaho, and what we did was all take pictures with the fish as if we were the one who'd caught it. If you look close enough, you can see I'm holding the fish up by the lure used to catch (still in its mouth), but the lure I was using is secured to the bottom eyelit of my pole (the one I'm holidng up in front of me). Not my fish, but a great picture to go along with a great story of overcoming the odds and weather to get a fish on the line.
Hope you enjoyed this Fish This Story.
2 comments:
How do we send you the new generation of utah fishing photo's. This is Josh's brother living in Utah and you guys left a ton of fish for us to catch. If you need some new photos let us know.
By all means, send your pics and a little bit about where they were caught and I'd be glad to publish them on the blog. Best way to get them to me is probably through Josh for now. I'm sure he'd appreciate being to go-to man. Look forward to seeing what Utah fishing is looking like now. Thanks for the question.
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