Middle Weber

[philbert]

I set out to try the upper weber today and the water was still a bit high and a little murky, so I headed to the middle by Coalville. Started out at noon and didn't have a bite for the first hour; tried a bunch of different flies and different weight distributions, still nothing. So, I tried a couple more holes and about 1:00-2:30 the fish were really feeding. I threw a prince up top and a red san juan down below, rainbow on. Fought him for a couple of minutes and all of the sudden it felt like a log. I thought I was snagged, but there was a whitefish that decided to join the party on the top fly. There was no way I was reeling both these fish in and sure enough there went the rainbow with my last red san juan. I did reel the whitefish in though. Fishing slowed again, so I threw on a red copper john and a lightning bug with four No.4 sinkers. When I could keep the whitefish off of the lightning bug a trout would hit the red copper john (size 14). I ended up catching 2 browns, 2 rainbows, and an estimated 20 whitefish out of two holes between 1:00 and 2:30. I didn't have my phone with me, I thought, until it rang in my waders. The only fish I could photo at that time was whitefish (trout tapered off and it was all whitefish towards the end), and who wants to look at those things. I didn't see any risers or any considerable hatch. On the way back to the car I did see some bigger midges hatching. It can only get better from here on out, as long as the farmers irrigate a little to lower the rivers.

Philbert
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