It's Fishing Time!

Spring will be here this weekend, time to take a trip and do some fishing, stay tuned for a new post!

Ouch!

I have not been very active this month since I broke my collar bone. I just had surgery today and am now sitting at home watching alot of TV. My wife did a quick little write up on some shot guns we got, take a look at here blog:

The Wifes Blog

I have been having a bunch of luck with the new classified ad domains here in UT. The two new places that replaced KSL are Utah Gun Exchange and Utah Guns. You can find them here:

www.utahguns.com

and utahgunexchange.com

once I am recovered I will start fishing my buns off

Staying Busy

A quick post so it seems like I stay busy. I have been doing alot of snow boarding, shooting, and duck hunting. Christmas came and went and my wonderful wife got me a safe, a remote for my GoPro, and was nice enough to let me get a new rifle and continue to go duck hunting until the season draws to a close. Though I am still relatively new at duck hunting I have been getting ducks every time I go, even if it is only one at a time. Still no geese but I have alot to learn and I have my awesome Uncle Dan to teach me. I have learned so much from him already and always learn something new every time we talk!

Sometimes the weather is not the best in the world and it is down right freezing

It may seem and look damn cold in the picture above but if you use the right gear it is not to bad at all and pretty dang peaceful 

But with views like this how could you really complain?

Speaking of how awesome uncle Dan is, he surprised Brianna with her very own Remington Wingmaster 20 Gauge. She wants to take her hunters ed soon so she can down some quackers 

Im hoping to put some back country boarding pictures up soon, but the dang safety bug has got me and I need to get an avalanche beacon first.

Small creek fishing

If you look down on the right hand side of the blog here you will notice a link to another blog called "Utah water Log." That blog is ran by a feller named Justin, and he also go's by Loah. Justin fishes several small streams all year long and tends to do very well, so I decided to try a small stream just to see if I could come as close to as lucky as he always does. Granted Justin could go dig a hole in his back yard, fill it with water, and 2 hours later pull two trout out of it.

I started by fishing a small piece of water close to town. When i got to something that looked fishy i started swinging a small streamer through it. This was the small fishy piece of water i started at

I immediately started to get into small 6 to 10 inch browns. Once I let my streamer swing even deeper under the brush I was greeted with this chubby little guy

After several aerials I was able to get him in. I worked upstream some more and was greeted by this dark brown

 That was sitting under a sunken tire. He still has a small kype on him

I did happen to go duck hunting this week, but it turns out I can not hit the broad side of a barn so I guess I will have to go again next week.

Some fish and a gun

I have been spending alot of time up on the river doing as much fishing as I can. I have not caught any show stoppers yet but the fish that have come to hand have been slamming the streamers I have been throwing at them

The above fish was about the smallest, and below was the run of the mill average sized fish

And finally I needed to get the wife a new shotgun since I am going to get one, so thanks to our awesome Uncle Dan, she received this wing master 20 gauge. This will be great for birds and rabbits!

Now it's time to start doing some duck hunting, more to come!

Another great weekend

Myself and a couple of buddies took a small trip out east of us and did some river fishing. The river was in fantastic shape, though a bit low, but still kicked out quiet a few fish. Nothing out of the world big but fun none the less

We were able to see some great wildlife as well. In the first picture below if you look hard enough you can see a moose on the opposite river bank up a ways, and the second picture contains the worlds most pissed off (at me at least) river otter.

After several hours of fishing and several fish to hand we called it a night. The next day we headed to a favorite area of mine and did some small stream fishing and made a quick stop another place

at the end of this little creek we came across one heck of a surprise  a newly constructed beaver dam, which I thought I took a picture of but must not have.

The other little place we stopped at kicked out a few nice fish, as usual, for us before we took off for home.

More fishing to follow soon!

Time for a trip

I am finally able to start planning outings again, since I will be home next month. First trip of my return; A Section of the Green River. I will have a few friends joining me, unless they flake out which I doubt. Looks like I will be running the sticks on the drift boat....again. That's fine it will be an enjoyable trip none the less