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Skipped a lttle bit of school on Tuesday and had a great day on the river! I started out flyfishing using different nymphs with no luck. I headed back to my car and grabbed my spinning pole. I headed to one of my favorite spots and first few casts I had nothing, then a hit and a miss and the same retrieve I hooked into a nice brown. Ended up with 14 browns in one hour. TONS OF STRIKES. Used a spinner the whole time and all fish were about 10-14 inches. Great day overall. Water was murky and a little bit higher than its been.
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Thats a great hour of fishing. Oh good thing you brought both poles. well prepared, what color spinners?
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I used a firetiger bucktail spinner from bluefox. Best kind I have ever fished.
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They like just about any spinner you can imagine, Rapalas do well too. That river is some dang good fishing with the right conditions, I've fished it all my life and always catch fish. I just wish the browns in there were as big as they used to be.
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what part of the ogden river do you guys fish? Like some generalized directions or spots.
I have always wanted to give that river a try. Is it a smaller stream like the Blacksmith Fork or Logan River?
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the ogden river is a bit like the logan only with houses all the way up the canyon. but non the less, it is a grerat fishery.
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It's comparable to the blacksmith fork and the Logan rivers. It's a rocky river and provides ultimate habitat for browns.
I usually fish the Ogden Canyon, My favorite stretch is from the Alaskan Inn all the way up to the Oaks restaurant. The rest of the river can provide good fishing also. I like to use panther martins or floating rapalas, but if you fly fish you can really get into them.
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Thanks for the info. I might give it a try tomorrow. Also maybe this is a question for the Fly Fishing forum but isn't there a fly named the "Ogden Special" or something like that. Anybody have a picture of what it looks like?
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The ORS (Ogden River Special) is an emerger.
Size 18-24 curved caddis or nymph hook.
Silver wire ribbing, evenly dubbed light hares ear dubbing dubbed up close to the eye of the hook(lol), and light grey deer hare tied to stand up facing back. The deer hair should look like it does on a serendipity. AWESOME bug for the Ogden.
Right now, I would reccomend using flash back pheasant tails and hares ears though. If the water is low (I don't think it is) then you can try some dries... I line parachute adams and BWOs. Small Griffiths gnats can work VERY well if there is a midge hatch coming off.
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Well I went ahead and fished the Ogden today. The water was a little milky so I skipped nymphing and fished some streamers and did very well. Had fish chasing my line all day and landed 10 nice fish with two being 14" Thanks for the information and I want to try the South Fork of the Ogden next.
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What streamers worked for you?
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I was just using standard woolly buggers.
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