02-28-2022, 04:58 AM
What a walk down memory lane. Daredevils, mepps spinners, jakes spin-a-lures, triple teasers, rooster tails, nightcrawlers, angle worms, grasshoppers, pautzke salmon eggs, velveeta, and marshmallows to keep bait up off the bottom. I used all those as well. When I go through my tackle now I still find a bunch of those lures and they still work.
I remember taking an old window screen and attaching it between two sticks of wood, then shuffling through the gravel of the weber river. I caught all types of aquatic insects but it was the stoneflies and the dace minnows along with a sculpin or two that I really wanted. I caught so many fish on those live stoneflies and some bruiser browns and cutts on the dace minnows.
I also remember looking for caddis larvae under rocks in small streams. We called them rock rollers because they would encase their bodies with small pieces of gravel. We would peel off the casings and fish with the larvae. Worked really good as well.
I remember taking an old window screen and attaching it between two sticks of wood, then shuffling through the gravel of the weber river. I caught all types of aquatic insects but it was the stoneflies and the dace minnows along with a sculpin or two that I really wanted. I caught so many fish on those live stoneflies and some bruiser browns and cutts on the dace minnows.
I also remember looking for caddis larvae under rocks in small streams. We called them rock rollers because they would encase their bodies with small pieces of gravel. We would peel off the casings and fish with the larvae. Worked really good as well.