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2009 Fly Fishing Slideshow

Cutthroat Stalker (Scott) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 05:49:45 +0000

Check out Cutthroat Stalker’s 2009 Fly Fishing year in review.

2009 Fly Fishing Slideshow

music by Andy McKee

Rivers of a Lost Coast Awarded

Cutthroat Stalker (Scott) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 19:49:53 +0000

This email just arrived from Justin Coupe & Palmer Taylor:

We are very proud to announce that at last night’s awards ceremony for the 10th Annual Sacramento Film & Music Festival, Rivers of a Lost Coast took home the Jury’s Award for Best Documentary Feature. Thanks to the Sac Film & Music Festival for 10 great days of films and thanks to all the members of the Capital Film Arts Alliance who helped with this year’s festival.

Congratulations gentlemen!

They also announced that they planned on releasing the DVD from their website sometime in October. I have not yet seen the film and have been anxiously awaiting the DVD.

Salmonfly-BSF-2009

Cutthroat Stalker (Scott) — Sat, 30 May 2009 13:47:35 +0000

Salmonfly hatch is going on right now on the Blacksmith Fork River. I checked it out yesterdy after school for about an hour. A couple of refusals by a couple of nice sized browns. I had one brown on (I was trying to reel in some slack line, the fish took, I jerked the rod which proceeded to send twirly loops around the end of my rod, effectively clamping the line against the rod tip—I hope I’m not the only one this kind of crap happens to). I let loose a couple of SHiDs and reeled in the rest of the line, sans fish.

This was a little lower on the river, about a half mile above the old, removed dam. I was using my struggling salmonfly pattern, but I didn’t see any salmonflies in the area. So I moved upsream. I started seeing a trickle of salmonflies above the road around the water gauging station. By the time I got above Shenoah Picnic site there were quite a few salmonflies. I pulled off 1/4 mile below the dam and caught a 10″ brown and was refused by a very nice brown (17″?).

If you’re fishing there today, I’d go above the dam.

Utah’s Mother’s Day Caddis Hatch?

Cutthroat Stalker (Scott) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 02:37:36 +0000

Blacksmith Fork is gushing…

but the caddis are out in force. Size 16-18.

Look for slow sections along the banks (like along that log on the left side of the first picture above) or rocks.

I saw a nice one rise in this hole.

I’ll be fishing with the rod tomorrow (weather permitting) instead of just the camera. [singlepic id=512 w=300 h= float=]

Moon Occults Venus

Cutthroat Stalker (Scott) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:13:45 +0000

If you don’t live in the western US, and if you weren’t up early enough, here’s a shot about 50 minutes before the Moon’s occultation of Venus. I snapped the photo from my back deck. I noticed it just before I started my jog when they were both right on the cusp of the mountains—I should have turned around then and snapped a few, but I didn’t. Mars was about three more inches (compared to the picture) to the upper right corner.

All-in-all, it was a beautiful sight!

Here’s a little info from Sky and Telescope.

Anybody else catch it?