July 8th 2009 - Weber River

I guess some days you just need to have your butt kicked to remember that fly fishing can be hard and the fish finicky. Today Jack and I pulled off the "Drive then Fly" day. Jack picked me up at 7am to hit the links and chase some golf balls around. Funny side note: while hitting a few on the range we got circled around by a bird. On the 3rd pass I realized this was an exotic bird. On the 4th pass it landed on my shoulder!! So I got a birdie before we hit the first hole!! Anyway, I went right up on my hand and I noticed it was banded. I'm guessing it was a cockatiel that flew out a window. Jack and I devised a cage from 2 range ball buckets and took it to the club house and called animal control. Here is a link to a picture of the bird. http://twitpic.com/9p02o Hope the bird found its way back home.

So after 9 holes we headed to Kamas for lunch at the Spring Chicken and then some fishing. So the fishing wasn't awesome this afternoon and we left the river around 6pm so we probably missed the evening hatch, but we put some in the net. Jack naturally had a mess of whitefish and he wouldn't say how many were foul hooked...... Anyway we both got a couple nice Browns so here are the pics. Can't say any one pattern really worked today but as a surprise Jack said he caught at least 3 on a rainbow glo-bug. No "hook in mouth" witnesses so we are taking his word for it. Still that is really late for eggs to work. My only thought was perhaps the Utah suckers are spawning? Don't really know.