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This place is called “BIG FISH tackle” right?

Over the past month I have been super busy trying to catch some Big Fish for the BFT Utah Fly Fishing Contest. So with that comes going to places with big fish.......whoda thunk it!
This far away spot provided me with some hog tigers!

18.5 inches
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A 19.75 inch Tiger Trout.


EvilTyeDyeTwin's 20 inch Tiger Trout.


After 100 of these tigers between 5 of us in 3 trips the on fire action died, and so did our interest of pursuing them any futher.

With the expense of pursuing the tigers of Central Utah I needed to piggy back with another member to go fishing again. Not literally like this Iguana on DuckDog1us.




But I managed my 21.5 inch cutty on the fly while I was there.



Plenty of cutty's to go around.

And what DD1US is famous for....Slot Busters at the berry!






There was even a double or two for the day


And a 23 inch sucker for DD1US.


I also couldn’t avoid getting into some trashy fish. I managed 6 chubs on the fly. With 70 ish fish caught it was a good day.

Then came the biggest fish of my life. I had the unique opprotunity to fish with the goddess of flies.....Flygoddess.
This piggy was 29.5 inches long and 10lbs 6oz!



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YUBA 7-1-13

I showed up on Monday afternoon around 2pm. WIth no love from the pike-sters I targeted carp. I managed 17 of them (2 on the fly) until I got sick of them in 30 mins.
So it was off to Oasis. Sure enough I was trolling a spinner bait when a MONSTER hit on my 2nd pass! I saw a silhouette of something huge. I was all s for 6 mins as this guy was giving me the fight of my life.

Then I saw it, a freaking Yuba Carp! I took him to shore, weighed him (10lbs even) and tossed him under a boulder. I could not see anyone to take a pic of me with it and besides I had some pike to catch considering all I brought to Yuba was a can of Tomato Basil Bisque, to which my plan was to add pike meat to.

Near dark I dam near was capsized by a jerk boater doing a circle around me. Never had waves in my lap before. The encounter lead to braid line bird nests that needed buring to get rid of. Luckily just before dark I got a 23 inch pike for a shore dinner. At 10:35pm I settled into the west beach for a drinking and cooking session.

Well Mr. Modelo makes a crappy chef because I spilled half my soup all over me and the beach. Drunk and still hungry I set up the cot and fell asleep.

Sunrise hit me like a vampire and reminded me that it was time to fish and get out of bed. Right as I was all set up to go at 9am I realized I forgot my net at the west beach....as well as some beer in that net!!!!!!!! Never leave a beer behind, that's alcohol abuse!

With net in hand I launched. 4 FISH IN 4 CASTS!!!!!!
1st up was the 14.5 inch walleye.

Then 3 pike in a row.



But what took the cake was a fish that I saw boil on my lure three times in a row till I landed it. It was a 2.6 pound smallmouth bass!!!!!

Then came 2 more pike to hand. Without my big rocks I resorted to holding them by the tail and using them like a hatchet. It was the pure genuine therapy that I needed. By noon I had to go but with stringer in hand I was happy child.

Yuba (Wednesday)

With 2 hours of sleep I was up at 3am to meet Utgolf at Scheels. We launched at Sunrise.

It was Pike,

After Pike.

After Pike

For a total of 25 pike!!! Utgolf managed 15 pike and I managed 10 pike.

My 3 clones at 30.5 inches and 6lbs, 14oz. a peice.


We even had a few doubles. The smallest fish was 4lbs 5oz. So weight wise it was a over 100lb fish morning! It was a morning that will spoil me for a long while. It is so nice to have a quality and quantity day for a change.

Utgolf might add a pic of two later on. Hopefully he gets his 46lbs thrust motor figured out as it sucked two batteries down by 1pm. The canoe paddle in this time as so much nicer than lasts years thunder storm that almost killed us last year!
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WOW!!!!!! Jealous!
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Its been an EPIC month.......I thought we agreed that we were not going to post up some of those pictures....either way......that fly fishing contest has pushed me out of my comfort zone, forcing me to get out and fish new gear in new places.

If there is one thing I have learned chasing big fish, it is this.....

"Sometimes it is all about what you fish, sometimes it is all about how you fish and sometimes it is all about where you fish.....but most of the time....it is all 3".
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Nice, it looks like I got to step up my search a little bit more.[cool] Good thing I got some vacation time coming up.[]
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here's a few more




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[quote flygoddess]WOW!!!!!! Jealous![/quote]

Well don't be too jealous on the pike stuff.....none of those were caught on the fly. I regret not taking the flies on such an epic day but then again Utgolf pitches 1/2oz stuff so I would not have been able to cast to them with my 8 weight. That and I have spent $600 on spin gear for pike so far so it is good to give those lures some time on the water.

Headed back down Monday to see if I can get a few pike on the fly though. Wish me luck!
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Wow, nice!
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Nicely done. I want to try Yuba one of these days, I haven't caught a Pike yet.

2 random questions. First, if you don't mind me asking, where is that you were fishing at Strawberry? Also, what does B.W.O. stand for?
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[quote ], where is that you were fishing at Strawberry? Also, what does B.W.O. stand for?[/quote]

I'll help out since it is a heavily fished and very well known area.

The ladders.

Second, BWO stands for Blue Wing Olive. TDT is one of the contestants of he fly fishing challenge, he also started it
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[quote FishMcFisherson]Nicely done. I want to try Yuba one of these days, I haven't caught a Pike yet.

2 random questions. First, if you don't mind me asking, where is that you were fishing at Strawberry? Also, what does B.W.O. stand for?[/quote]

Well the 1st question is really up to DuckDog1us to say. There is a shot that gives some background though. That is the only hint I can divulge there.

The 2nd question I can answer. This year there is a BFT Utah Fly Fishing Competition. It started April 1st and runs till Nov. 1st. It is a warm water and cold water speices comp.

BWO is the contest word and it stands for Blue Winged Olive, which is a common fly. Can't tell you how many times Fly Fisherman say "The BWO hatch was amazing!"

It is simple to remember and even easier to write in the sand if you forget a peice of paper.
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Beat me to the punch! You are a fast one Kotch.

P.S. Kotch has contributed not only a sweet part of the prize stuff but also his powers as a moderator and his time into this as well. Thanks man!

Special shout out thank you to Flygoddess for donating some prizes too!

EvilTyeDyeTwin as well as I contributed to the contest prizes too.
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ladder is where pictures was taken but that dont mean that is where we fish was caught
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Good Month indeed lets keep it up next month too
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Not sure how I missed this post. Nice fish!!! I did miss the spiky hair though....too hot?
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[quote AFFamily]Not sure how I missed this post. Nice fish!!! I did miss the spiky hair though....too hot?[/quote]

It might be easy to miss as I stick to the monthly reports for now.

Yes it is too hot for the spikes. I spend 30 mins putting it up and within 10 mins of 95 degree heat they fall down. Guess I will have to wait till September to spike my hair again.
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