07-07-2013, 01:43 PM
Hello to everyone. Been lurking a while from down here in Vegas. I mostly fish Mead/Mohave for Bass both large and small almost on a weekly basis but I find myself wanting to head to Utah for the summer (at least when I can afford it). Usually I only make it a couple trips a year but hoping for more this summer. The last trip up there was late June on [url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/gforum.cgi?post=829344;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;page=unread#unread"]Panguitch and Minersville[/url]. My 12 year old daughter got her first taste of a fly rod and so now I am in for it. lol I grew up in Montana fly fishing/tying flies, etc, etc my entire childhood. Tubes, boats, waders, rivers, lakes, etc. So been there done that type of thing. Joined the Military and never touched a rod for those 20 years. Retired several years back, moved and back to my roots of fishing for a past time.
Anyways... I have been busy in the garage blowing the dust off my old fly tying box from the late 70s and making some flies and I need some recommendations on flies to tie to build up my arsenal. These would be for lakes and generally speaking southern Utah. Kolob, Panguitch, Minersville, Fish Lake, Otter, etc. (would love to hit Strawberry/Starv some day but for Walleyes...)
I have an entire box of buggers in both black and green. Also red yarn leaches (same yarn I got at Henrys Lake back in the early 80s) Those are my primary flies. Simple and work on lakes. Fishing/fly fishing in general has got a whole bunch more complicated these days. Use to be 4-6 flies and that was your entire box way back when. Now days there is a ton of options plus droppers and stuff I am still trying to learn/pick-up on.
Been reading posts and seeing what is mentioned. Looking them up and making them. Plus on the last trip to Bass Pro I grabbed 4 flies that were recommended and made some of them.
Right now I have a box full of various buggers/leaches. Then this new stuff I have been learning/tying. Zebra Midges (more than likely tied on the wrong type of hook), Prince Nympths, olive elk hair Caddis, Renegades, Royal Wulff and Adams Irresistibles.
Anything else I should make a stab at tying?
How about droppers? Nothing I have ever done before. Just read about. Just tie on one of those Zebra Midges I made a foot or so behind my primary fly type of thing?
Kolob is the next trip/lake I have planned right now. Been there several times in the past few years but with spinning rods, etc when my daughter was still learning how to fish.
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Thanks and sorry for the long read...
Tom
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Anyways... I have been busy in the garage blowing the dust off my old fly tying box from the late 70s and making some flies and I need some recommendations on flies to tie to build up my arsenal. These would be for lakes and generally speaking southern Utah. Kolob, Panguitch, Minersville, Fish Lake, Otter, etc. (would love to hit Strawberry/Starv some day but for Walleyes...)
I have an entire box of buggers in both black and green. Also red yarn leaches (same yarn I got at Henrys Lake back in the early 80s) Those are my primary flies. Simple and work on lakes. Fishing/fly fishing in general has got a whole bunch more complicated these days. Use to be 4-6 flies and that was your entire box way back when. Now days there is a ton of options plus droppers and stuff I am still trying to learn/pick-up on.
Been reading posts and seeing what is mentioned. Looking them up and making them. Plus on the last trip to Bass Pro I grabbed 4 flies that were recommended and made some of them.
Right now I have a box full of various buggers/leaches. Then this new stuff I have been learning/tying. Zebra Midges (more than likely tied on the wrong type of hook), Prince Nympths, olive elk hair Caddis, Renegades, Royal Wulff and Adams Irresistibles.
Anything else I should make a stab at tying?
How about droppers? Nothing I have ever done before. Just read about. Just tie on one of those Zebra Midges I made a foot or so behind my primary fly type of thing?
Kolob is the next trip/lake I have planned right now. Been there several times in the past few years but with spinning rods, etc when my daughter was still learning how to fish.
Thanks and sorry for the long read...
Tom
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