Palisades II

We went to Palisades again on Saturday. Bob, Parker and myself we pulled into the park about noon. Ran into the Ranger of the lake. I noticed his name was B. Bird, I asked if he was related to Bill Bird. He responded that's my father, I was blown away, hadn't seen him in 25+ years. We visited for quite a while and Bob and Parker got to fishing. Bob landed the first of the day with his reliable Jake's gold w/red dots. While Brad and I visited he told us that the record Tiger Trout had been pulled out the lake and was 30 inches and 12+lbs. As we shared stories and secrets he gave me the areas to set up in and what to run, you will have to come with us on a trip and we will share secrets. The fishing was very slow and we threw everything at them and even hit one of the holes Brad pointed us to, Bob did catch his in the hole. We will return there with our tubes from now on. We ended the day around 5pm, Parker was HUNGRY. We headed into Manti for a bite to eat and stopped at a local shop, can't remember the name it was a green building, not the best burger joint we have hit on our adventures. Got home at dusk and was sunburned form the beautiful day that it was. We had a great day on the pond. Come join us if you can.

Vacation Day

Today I took a vacation day so I didn't loose any I will still loose some vacation time but oh well. Started the day a little slow, but did pick up a couple nice Buck Bag float tubes, for cheap they will be nice to get into the Uintahs with this summer. I finally got up to the river just about noonish. The weather was not the best, my fingers froze pretty quickly. Fished a stretch just at the mouth of the canyon, it was snowing, yes I said snowing up the canyon. I threw out a couple spinners just to see if the leach pattern would work, no luck. Seen some rolling lower down stream so I put on a dare devil, remember I'm seeing how many I can catch on the old spoon. Bingo 2nd cast I pulled in a decent brown. Couple more cast and hooked up another nice brown, it quick released. Fished for a few more minutes and then called it a day. Fingers froze. I took dad to Cabellas he had never been there. I know I'm a bad boy, but he loved it. He looked over the signage more than anything else but he did enjoy looking around. He thought the aquarium was very cool.

Day of Firsts

Today we took a trip south headed to 9 mile reservoir and spent an hour or so there. Threw out a number of things to get a bite but nothing was hitting. No one around us was getting anything either. We were there pretty much on our own for an hour then all of the sudden we were overrun with people. They came in right on top of us I mean literally. So we cast a few more times and we took off. We headed North, and took the road to Palisades, I have never been there so I knew Parker or Bob had never been there. So that was the first of the first for us all. We arrived and drove through the park and checked things out couldn't get anywhere out of the wind, oh forgot to mention the wind was blowing hard so we had to find a spot with a little barrier. We ended up on the dam and started casting. Parker was throwing his trusted Super Duper and got one on in about 20 minutes, his first of the season, he was happy to get that one behind him. Bob was wandering all over but when he seen Parker land his he came back over and started casting his super duper and caught one in about 5 minutes, his first of the season as well. I am working Dare Devils this season to see how many fish I can catch with the old trusted lure, My first came with the red white standby. It was fun to catch it, not my first of the season though. So then I started working a perch pattern DD and within 5 cast I had another hooked up with this pattern, he made a quick release just as I was pulling him out of the water. They said it didn't count, I didn't have it in hand. We stayed for a few more casts and then called it a day and headed for home. We went home via 89 and seen the sights Bob had not been through that valley and wanted to see it. We will return to Palisades what a great looking area. The water is a turquoise blue and clear. It was quite and not as many people around. The fish were clean looking and healthy. Check out the slide show below.
Til our next venture........Keep Smilin'

Just an update

Parker and I went to the Sportsmen Expo this weekend and gathered information on Alaska. Hope we can pull something off they are very expensive. We re-supplied our garlic tray, yummmm. We also got information for the Green River, thinking maybe over Spring Break.
Rick (a friend) taught me how to work my GPS tonight and signed me up on the Geocaching sight and showed me where his two caches are located. They are hid pretty good. This will definitely be a good experience and reason to get out and search for these little caches. They are located all over the place.
Later