I spent two days last week on my “homewater” (I’ve hardly fished it this year, so maybe it is “home” only because it is close?).

I fished solo last Wednesday in an area known as The Dugway. I forgot my camera (that makes two trips in a row where I forgot my camera—the other trip was a week or so before when we fished for two days (1 in Idaho 1 in Wyoming—report later). The fishing was good and I caught around 15. The biggest was a smidgen over 13″ and most were about 11″. All of them were cutthroat caught on a dark elk hair caddis, size 14.

Friday I fished with Dan (and remembered my camera). We were going to try and fish Giraffe Creek and Preuss Creek on the Idaho/Wyoming border. They’re supposed to have some good populations of Bonneville cutthroat. We hit the road about 7:30.

I printed off some Google maps which we’ve found to be pretty good—up to that day. Two of the roads to Giraffe have been “removed.” One of them was blocked off with large rocks, and besides, it was barely big enough for ATVs. The other road has been plowed up and going back to its native state. I’ve been noticing this more and more. Has anyone else?

The third road to Giraffe involved a steep incline at the beginning with some serious slickrock. Dan’s 4×4 is still not operable, so after tire spinning attempt, we backed off.

We approached lower Preuss Creek, which isn’t supposed to have much in the way of fish, looking for a way to get to the upper creek. But it’s all private property. We tried one road to see if we could get to  a point a few miles upcreek and then hike down to the creek, but after a mile or so we came across a “No Trespassing” sign. And the property owner (sheep rancher—baaaaaaaa!). He was a really nice guy but said he doesn’t grant access to the creek. He said that with the low water conditions for quite a few years in a row, there weren’t many fish left anyhow.

So we decided to head back to the Logan River. Which we got to around 12:00ish.

We stopped just above Red Banks and fished there for about 3 hours. I did pretty well collecting 15-20 fish and Dan caught about 6? I used the same elk hair caddis I used on Wednesday. Dan mostly used a beetle.

We moved upriver about a mile and continued fishing. I picked up another 10-15 and Dan caught about 7 more. So between the two of us we picked up 35-40 fish in about 6 hours of fishing. Like Wednesday, nothing too big with the biggest going around 14″ and most averaging in the 10″-12″ range. We each caught two browns and the rest were all Bonneville cutthroat.

One of my favorite catches of the day was when I spied a nice trout below these branches. I promptly dropped into stealth mode to win the prize

Of course, it’s even better watching it in hi-def video with a post-grunge surround track blaring (keep your eye on the red circled area from the above photo):

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hmmmmmm…..

I’m not sure what happened to the HD or that soundtrack (or the handsome Brad Pittish model)…somebody musta hacked my site and left us with this crappy video instead.

One of the reasons I love fishing this particular area is the color of the river bottom, an incredible goldy color (and Dan’s fish is nice too):

Just another day fishing instead of working (although our workless days are numbered—only two weeks left—I hope you feel bad for us).

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