Early Morning Rainbows on Deer Creek June 7th, 2014

Saturday, June 7th at dawn saw me, Mortensen, and an undisclosed mini-Mortensen--he would not sign the blog waiver for public viewing--on Deer Creek Reservoir. The Rainbows were running a little deeper in the SPOT patter image below.  We were picking them up between 30-40 feet of water on pop gear weighted with 3/4 to 1.5oz. egg sinkers.  The water temperature was between 60-63F and the fishing was hot.  By 11AM all three of us had our limit of four nice fat Bows!  Below is the video and some images.  Enjoy!

Click here for the GoPro Pop Gear Fishing On Deer Creek Reservoir 6-7-14

SPOT Guide

Fishing Images:

Deer Creek Rainbow Fest

During my off-Friday, the Rainbows were "on"!  A friend from work and I went early to Deer Creek.  We followed the path shown on the SPOT map below and each limited.  Well, actually the guy I was fishing with caught six and I caught two.  Still, it was fantastic fishing!  We got on the water at 6:30am and we were done by 11am.  My friend was using a Rainbow Panther Martin with about 1/2oz weight.  I tried about everything in my tackle box, but caught one on the same size number two brown trout crank bait.  I caught the other one on a purple body, red blade spinner weighted with a 1/2oz egg sinker.  The fish were hanging in the line on the SPOT map at about 20-40ft.  The water temperature was 56-58F.

Check out the GoPro Video here!

There are some images here:

Mother's Day Caddis Hatch on the Middle Provo

I took a solo trip on Friday, May 16th to the Middle Provo after work.  I hit a prolific Mother's Day Caddis hatch.  Fish were flying out of the water all around me.  It was fun to watch.  I caught three, landed two, and missed two others.  I fished just downstream from the Legacy Bridge outside of Heber. The SPOT tracker shows the general vicinity. Despite the community pond feel from all the fishing pressure there, it was still a good time.  I made a quick GoPro video in the link below.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!

GoPro Fly Fishing on the Middle Provo in Utah

Running Against the Strawberry Wind

May 10th, 2014 we took the much anticipated trip to Strawberry to fish as the ice was receding from the shore. Turns out, there was just one small problem:  THERE WAS NO ICE!  Apparently, the Department of Wasted Resources (DWR) has a very loose definition of "receding ice".  Despite that, the cold wind, and the threat of rain/snow, we had fun in the beautiful outdoors.  We even caught fish.  Mortensen landed a nice 15" Cutthroat.  There were two mini-Mortensen's with us this time as well.  Adeline and Isaac joined this expedition.  Isaac had a fish on, but he escaped.  He also tested his arm strength tossing rocks in the lake, right by Dad!  Adeline hunted down numerous crayfish exoskeletons between snaking on cookies and dried mangoes.  I ran the GoPro camera, but never seemed to get the timing just right, even for the three fish I hooked, but couldn't land.

Here is where we fished from the SPOT:

Close up SPOT:

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!