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Western Trout Video

I recently returned from a summer of volunteer work in Northern Utah. Having lived and fished only in Maine and Virginia I had no idea what to expect when I arrived and was some what intimidated by the stories that I had read about the very technical fishing in the Rockies. I had a lot of free time and was able to travel often to the surrounding states of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. I learned very quickly that my east coast tactics simply did not work on the more difficult and pressured waters of the west coast. I was suddenly thrust into a world where fly fishermen worried about things like micro-drag, if the #24’s they were fishing were too big, or which emerger pattern might work on any given day. In some of the western rivers that I fished, I really had to have the exact fly size, fly pattern, drift, and a little bit of luck just to hook a fish. Luckily, there were many remote hike-in places where I could go for some fast fly fishing and lots of catching after a tough weekend on some of the tricky spring creeks. I ended my trip to the west with an 8 day 5 state fly fishing marathon. It was a very exciting way to fish and travel. I would usually only have 3 to 5 hours to figure out, as best I could, where I was going to fish and to dial into some fish before heading to the next river. I had a great trip out west, saw some beautiful country and experienced some amazing fly fishing. I already know that I will be returning to the

west coast; perhaps for a lifetime.