Tim Angeli
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Stu,
You have some excellent home water! I loved it down there. It would definitely be fun to meet up some time. I thought that piece of water that you’re talking about above looked awesome, couldn’t figure out how to get to it though. I’m also planning to hike into the hut/lodge upstream sometime in the future for a couple nights and fish around there.
Welcome aboard. I can never see too many pictures, would love to see some of your AZ fish and scenery.
Welcome,
TimCameron, I’m glad you sold the stuff because I was to the point where I had talked myself into buying that 8 wt. even though I don’t need.
Continued from above:
The next day I packed up my stuff and hit the road again, heading to an upstream section of the same river. It was only about 20km or so upstream, but it was actually well over 100km to drive down and around to the access road. The scenery was top notch though:
Sheep, sheep, and more sheep:
I arrived, parked in a campsite, and hit the river. To make a long story short, I worked up to a really good looking pool, nearly topped my waders twice trying to get access to it, worked up on top of a short “cliff”, and saw 6 large browns suspended just under the surface and actively feeding. I proceeded to blow shot after shot, and the ones I did convert, the fish didn’t cooperate. The day ended with no fish to hand but plenty of memories.
A crap picture, but it gives you an idea of what I saw. There were 6 fish exactly like this one, and for size reference, this fish was probably 20-21”:
Spot the fish (as a side note, this is a very easy fish to spot compared with most encountered over here):
Need a closer look?
The pool:
The next image is one of the highlights from the night. On my way back down river toward the campground, I came across this bait chucker. He had dragged a little kiddie inflatable boat up with him, apparently to make the trip back downriver a little easier. The whole sight was just absolutely hilarious, and the pictures depicts it quite accurately, especially with the rednecks in the background drinking beer and jumping off the rocks at the swimming whole below camp. They later decided to stay up until the wee hours of the morning, get hammered, yell obscenities in total disregard of the presence of their kids, and play the same cd on repeat for the entire night. It was awesome…and I mean that in total sincerity, it was absolutely hilarious. And hey, at least I had the walls of my tent as noise insulation.
The next morning I woke up and hit the trail in search of a piece of water upstream, that, according to some other fisherman I ran into, was just a “short hike upstream.” As they described it, it was “only about a 15 minute hike, up and over one ridge, and it dumps you right out at the river’s edge.” If by that they actually meant that it was 45 minutes up the trail, up and over at least three ridges, and a fairly serious hike, then yes, they were perfectly correct. Seriously though, I’m not complaining. I absolutely love hiking into “remote” water, and the scenery on this hike definitely couldn’t be beat:
I worked my way upstream throughout the day, covered a lot of water, and caught some really good fish. Here are a few shots of the river and nice rainbows that I landed that day:
One of many solid brownies that was cruising the edge of this pool:
First rainbow of the day:
More shots of the river:
This shot gives a good idea of just how immense these pools are. In this situation, my leader is about 15 feet, meaning that this fish is about 10 feet deep in this picture:
Check out the size of the tail on this fish:
A nymph eater:
White tips:
The release:
Another grip and grin:
The real day maker was a brown that I landed at the very end of the day on my way back to the trail. It was an absolutely awesome fish…old, dark, and beat up. It was the kind of fish that had definitely seen it’s fair share of excitement throughout it’s life. A hiker actually ended up popping out of the woods just as I hooked the fish, watched the whole thing, and happily snapped a bunch of pictures for me, so I didn’t even have to use my tripod.
A few more scenery shots:
And a few shots from the hike out:
And with that, the day ended with a smile once again plastered across my face from ear to ear.
The next morning I awoke and embarked on one of the most unpleasant events in life, packing up camp in the rain. Here are a few shots from the trip out:
Notice how this road is only one lane wide with blind corners….yeah, it’s still a two-way road:
Any truly remote location requires fording a river to get access:
One last parting shot of the fish that will forever live on in my memories:
I have one more part from this trip to post, but sadly, there were no more fish.
Wow! A sage rod! Cheap ass’s if you ask me.
Whole sale on the highest end Sage is probably less than 400 bucks. Between all of the shops that got hit they should pony up a lot more than one sage rod – cheap skates.
I’m going to whole heartedly disagree. First of all, they shouldn’t have to offer anything for someone to do the right thing and turn the thief in. Second of all, the article says that the thief stole “as much as $10,000 worth of gear.” We’re not talking about millions of dollars here.
Kelly has quite a few videos on Youtube of fly tying tutorials. I’m guessing that will be your best bet for finding a Zoo Cougar that is “actually tied by Kelly Galloup,” as you can literally watch him tie it and talk you through the tying on the deer hair head.
Here’s a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWq95R0vv24
Tim
Like Mike said, any of your favorite streamer hooks in your desired size should work as an alternative by simply cutting off the bend.
Brad,
All of my favorite hats are the mesh back style. The only accessible one that I could check the manufacturer on is from The Slide Inn and is an Ouray brand hat. It says it is style 50005, but I believe the current model that they show available on their website would be the 50004:
http://www.ouraysportswear.com/catalogue/resort/product_display.cfm?productID=50004Cheers,
TimMike,
Those are definitely some more great photos. I can’t get enough of those huge permit! Keep it coming.
Cheers,
Tim
