08-31-2009, 08:12 PM
Just wanted to post a short review of the Red Canyon Lodge at Flaming Gorge--about 15 minutes from the dam. I took my family up there this past weekend and stayed in the smaller stand-alone cabins. They have 2 styles of cabin rentals, smaller stand-alones, and larger duplex cabins. First the stay--it's a beautiful place and the cabins are nice. They're small--ours was a 1 bedroom with 2 full beds and a full sized futon. The duplex cabins are larger with 2 queen beds and a queen hide-a bed couch. There is a fridge and microwave in the smaller ones, a 2 burner rangetop in the duplex. The on site resaurant is open from 7:30-9:30 and serves pretty good food at normal resaurant rates.
With 3 young kids I didn't get to fish the private lake as much as I wanted to, but it's beautiful and great for float tubing, pontoon boats or you can rent either a canoe or flat bottom aluminum boat. I fished dries from the dock, mostly #16 olive caddis, and some #18 renegades and caught 10 nice fish--smallest probably 14" biggest probably 18", all strong. Missed probably twice that number.
A guy in town from Chicago who comes out every year for a couple of weeks fished the far side of the lake on Saturday throwing #8-10 hoppers against the shore and caught a lot of fish--he said 6-7 in the 4-6 pound range.
It's all artificial fly and lure catch & release fishing and (in my opinion) a much better setting than the Flaming Gorge Lodge. You've got to book early--they start taking reservations for next year in October and are open year round. We enjoyed the trip and fishing very much, already put our name on the list for next August.
Mike
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With 3 young kids I didn't get to fish the private lake as much as I wanted to, but it's beautiful and great for float tubing, pontoon boats or you can rent either a canoe or flat bottom aluminum boat. I fished dries from the dock, mostly #16 olive caddis, and some #18 renegades and caught 10 nice fish--smallest probably 14" biggest probably 18", all strong. Missed probably twice that number.
A guy in town from Chicago who comes out every year for a couple of weeks fished the far side of the lake on Saturday throwing #8-10 hoppers against the shore and caught a lot of fish--he said 6-7 in the 4-6 pound range.
It's all artificial fly and lure catch & release fishing and (in my opinion) a much better setting than the Flaming Gorge Lodge. You've got to book early--they start taking reservations for next year in October and are open year round. We enjoyed the trip and fishing very much, already put our name on the list for next August.
Mike
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