Going Pro at Deer Creek

On April 18th, Mortensen and Gourley spent the day at Deer Creek.  After a slow start, the evening fishing really picked up on shallow running, small brown trout or rainbow trout colored crank baits.  We caught around 15 total, and ended the day with a bulging live well of our limit on Rainbows!  This was also the first time trying out the new GoPro Hero3 I was recently gifted.  Below is my best attempt at making a video:  I'd like to thank my sponsors, and my fish netter!   The video looks like I'm catching all the fish, but the camera battery ran out about the time Mortensen was catching fish.  However, in all fairness to my fishing buddy, who took my jabs and equally generous helping of, "rubbing it in" well, he had his eyes dilated that morning, had to find and buy stylish glasses, and just didn't have the magic lure that day.  But hey, it's fishing, and what goes around comes around.

GoPro Deer Creek April 2014

Mortensen in Action at Deer Creek:

Afternoon at Deer Creek

April 11, 2014

Spent the afternoon in mid-April at Deer Creek.

Very pretty day, the Fish-Master performed well!

Mount Timpanogos

Sunset

Heading back to the dock

Past Pics of More Fishing Trips

Below are some fish pics from various and sundry trips to the river over the past few years.

A fall 2009 trip to G's bend on the Middle Provo during a Blue Wing Olive hatch.

Two very nice 22" Cut's caught at Soldier Creek Reservoir in the Summer of 2010 off of massive crank baits.

Alyssa and Eric catching some Rainbows on the North Fork of the Duchesne River on Pioneer Day 2010.

Local fauna in the Middle Provo.

And last but not least, these are for Mortensen's viewing pleasure:  Carp fishing on the dam at Deer Creek in early July 2007.  We caught several 10lbs plus Carp and one carried away my rod and reel to the bottom of Deer Creek!

Strawberry Waves Forever

The Mortensen's and Gourley's went for a little spin in the FishMaster on Oct. 12, 2013 to Strawberry Reservoir, and we slew the fish!  Between the four of us we caught 13 Cutthroat.  All of them were around 16-19" but they were fun to catch. Nearly all were caught on crank baits running in the 8-15' depth.  We caught all of them in a bay directly across from the Strawberry Marina in water about 20' of water.  It was cold that day, but otherwise beautiful.  Below are some pictures from our day on the water:

A nice catch by Mortensen...

but here is his best catch, with her nice catch!

And my personal favorite, when Mortensen caught the rest of us while trolling and the massive snarl he had to undo...twice!

Here is a nice couples photo of Alyssa and me at the end of the day.

Here are some more pics from the fishing trip:

Here are a couple of catches from my pretty lady.  She was a little off track with the first one...

...but then she was spot on with this one, though perhaps, her grip was a little tight!

Finally, the best part of fishing...

...a timeless escape.