[Aaron Otto]

We take our coffee strong. In Utah you can have it with or without Scuds.

One thing I bet you don’t know about CK, is he comes with his own Nightlight!

A place we passed through.

When the lights went down we didn’t really stop.

[Aaron Otto]

LOL – where to start?

Another chapter in my dual-lifestyle, thank you Corey.

So snagged a plane Friday around lunch time to see my good friend CK.  The only thing that out paces his photography is his sincere and genuine nature.  He’s the real deal. Thank you my friend.

Okay onto the Porn:

So I came for him:

Now you know the what, let’s digress to the why.

Corey took me all over, we meet some friends, and in gereral fished our balls off for about 60hours straight.

Utah is cool

So are the Morman fish:

Corey has this placed dialed in.  He’s a streamer throwing, fish-catching, photographing FREAK.

[Aaron Otto]

I just got through Gila Descending by Dutch Salmon.

[Aaron Otto]

Thanks guys.

[Aaron Otto]

BAD A brotha!  Your chick can stick too huh?  Good for her!

Thanks mang! And, yes, she can. T is a casting freak!

[Aaron Otto]

Thanks all. Keep an eye out for this one.  You never know where it just may turn up.  

Until next week… look for a joint report, I’ll have to raise the bar to keep up with my photographic partner, this guy can shoot like no other.  

A

[Aaron Otto]

In summary:

We started here at this trailhead.

Another perspective of our starting point.

We hiked through this:

To get down to this:

We fished here:

and here..

For these- mini-troots.

To see some history:

Some Old.

Some Older.

In the end we had hiked close to 25 miles, caught many troots, and saw part of our southwest like few others, up close and personal.  Reflecting on the trip, it’s hard to grasp the scope of things.  The landscape is 1 million acres, with a population of 3000.  Vast and open, with little human traffic.  Almost perfect from our account.

I sincerely hope you enjoyed this little trip. Until next week.  Hopefully we’ll have something else, rare to share with you.  See you in five days CK.

[Aaron Otto]

One more mile and we had reached the road along with the main branch of the trib we had just hiked.  

We had to drop our gear and throw a couple casts before we ..yeah you guessed it hiked some more…

Did anyone catch the little man above Tara’s face-left?

The Ranger Station was nice enough to let us leave our packs with them for the short descent to an ancient apartment.  It felt great not carrying all that weight for the first time in a couple days..

Only one more mile to go…

Not many places on this earth can you cast for fiesty little troots, while standing below an ancient civilization and their aprtment complex.

This marked the end of our trip. I will follow up with a summary of events later on today. It was schnazy…no wait.. super-schnazy couple of days.

[Aaron Otto]

We hiked…

Hiked some more…

Allong the way we fished…it was groovy


Check out this Gila’s Sunspot – he’s got BLING

Gila Resting. Which was what we were about to do… oh so sleepy.


Then we fished some more…


We finally made the confluence… after hiking all day..

We were really close to final destination..

[Aaron Otto]

Thanks all.  

D700.

Here are a couple more from the weekend.

More Window Down Road Side Photography.

Say Hello to my little Friend.

Meet Senoir Rainbow.

This was a kid friendly trip too, Hudson was on my back in this photo. That is Hudson’s Uncle Rob and Cousin Bailey.  They were fishing too.

I know not great shots, sorry hand held wide open.  Please accept the content and look past the lack or skill on my part behind the lens.

A

[Aaron Otto]

Thanks guys.  

Tim you should find a reason to come down this way.  Hitch a ride with Lee this summer, you’re always welcome down here.  Plenty of room to crash.    

I’m guessing I’ll be back in Sept/Oct for my annual M-trek.  I think I’m going to float a few days with Brad, we talked about camping out on some flowage for a long weekend.  

Ping him, I’m sure he can fill you in.  

Couple other shots from P, that I’m pretty sure won’t get published;

The Pimp-Van

Reminder: Clean your lens before you shoot – duh!

Justin happy as a.. well you get it.

Chip and Merc hooking up… or not in that order…. or…. wait.. that doesn’t sound right?

Cheers Tom.  

[Aaron Otto]

Aaron,

What magazine is going to be running that article?  I’m really interested in Pyramid Lake and am contemplating a move closer to that general area of the country at the end of the summer so I’d like to find out some additional info.  

Thanks,
Tim

Thanks for the kind words.

[Aaron Otto]

We actually didn’t catch this one, nets are legal in Reno.

Tails are way cool.

Here is our guide – he rocked!  You totally need a guide when on ladders standing still looking at bobbers.  NO way you can fish without.

Rivers are cool

I’m really glad I had my wide-angle on me, this fish was only like six inches on this dudes boga?

Just poking around.

Water is wierd.

Hey report guy.  You can read about what went down, just pick up a fishing rag in about, 90 days.

[Aaron Otto]

Thank you all for the kind words, sincerely appreciated.

[Aaron Otto]

Thank you all for the nice words.  Very kind.

Got this really great note today at work.  To whom the ananymous sender is, I apoligize this wasn’t a more thurough fishing report.

I also apoligize that I didn’t think to post this in the photography section, instead of in your words, “hogging space on the reports page.”  

So in order to appease, here is your report.

In this last series of posts:

If fish was a brown trout and had a simliar backdrop to this –

it was caught in Oregon.  My friends mostly tossed nymphs and small midges under indicators on nine foot leaders.  

I threw mostly streamers for fish like this one: Gallup patterns in size six to eight.  Sorry for the picture quality the shot was blown.

If the background was snowy and fish was a rainbow like this, it was caught in Idaho.

There is a hint in the frame, can you catch it?  We used coper johns until an epic midge hatch came off and we tossed harop dries at them for a few hours.

So if the shots were on a small stream then it was a tiny thread in Arizona – shots that looked like this:  (we used something really tricky on five foot leaders to 4x- wooly buggers) Ought weight rods…..

If you saw big Canyon walls it was Lee’s Ferry… nine foot rods, six x leaders, nine plus feet long.  Midges 22s to 24s.  Sorry no real cool canyon shot here – but I like this picture from the lodge we stayed at right there.

My son’s spot are top secret, you don’t want him ticked at you.  So sorry no big report there. cough cough(salt river) not worth your time.
cough some more cough cough( bass pond)

If Wall Mart was stage left, we fished the Animas, but even if I give you what we used it won’t help.  We got skunked.

Last spot was San Juan River, nine foot rods five weight and less.  Nine foot leaders, streamers mostly in the afternoon and dries in the am. Beatis and midge dries 24.

To whom ever you were, I hope this appeases your need to send nasty-grams to my work email account.  That is pretty not-coolio.

To those of you who sent nice ones, they made me smile.  

Out.

[Aaron Otto]

Some New Mexico shiz:

Yeah shooting reflection of fishscapes in glasses, kind of my thing.

Nice little bow-nita

A grip and grin, if there ever was one 🙂

A net and grin, sans grin.

We caught too many fish, so we headed home.

Andele Senoir!

Wait! Un Mas Alto.

AZ gold to bust the cherry or put the cherry on the top – depends on how you see it.

Oh-well off to Pyramid for a week – out.

[Aaron Otto]

Small streams are my favorite. Small fish are just a bonus.  

How cool is this, 200 year old graffiti?

Water in the desert…..

An eight inch smallmouth on an ought-weight. What a hoot!

Day two let’s see what down-town Durango has to offer:

Some W’s.

Water

Stage left, WallMart.

And finally the last W – wierd dudes.. oh wait that’s us.

I think there is one or two more trips left in March…. hmm

[Aaron Otto]

March had a redfesh trip canceled, had to go somewhere.

So went to this place they call the Grand Canyon, maybe you’ve seen it?

Fished a bit too, some up high:

Fish are in the darndest places?

We found midges at six thousand feet.

Didn’t seem to hook anything there, tried a new spot.

Go figure we found something:

More of March to come a small stream with tiny smallmouth & Colorado.

[Aaron Otto]

Son fishing, his first Largemouth.

Note to self: when holding rod, fish and camera while trying to get your son and fish in picture- you should really turn on auto mode.

He’s a pimp:

Trip two with son: Guilt trip and teach by example.
Have son walk around behind new anglers as they struggle and pick up their trash.
Angler

His trash, Hudson cleaned up and handed to him afterwords. LOL

To poor salt into his wounds – Hudson asked him, while pointing out a rising fish, why he couldn’t catch it.

That brings us to March I think…. March trip to come I guess next post.

[Aaron Otto]

Hey Tradd –

You write it and I’m sure someone (Southwest Fly Fishing, maybe) will publish it.  That’s not my bag, and it’s not what this article’s about. 😉

By the way – walrus?

Zach

Feeling the love.

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