From the Colorado River drainage to the Snake, western rivers are high, muddy, and a pain to fish. If you know where clean water is, you keep it close to your vest because this spring is so . . .
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Fish Facts: Colorado River Cutthroat Trout (Oncorhyncus clarkii pleuriticus)
This Colorado River cutthroat, from southern Utah, displays dark, rich colors.
Photo by Mike Hadley
Considered one of the more beautiful trout in North America, the Colorado River cutthroat trout (Oncorhyncus clarkii pleuriticus) once inhabited the high-elevation streams and lakes of the Green . . .
Read MoreVideo: Stillwater Rainbow Buffet
In the sixth installment of the “Buffet Series” from Gilbert Rowley and Phil Tuttle, they fish a gorgeous lake in southern Utah for spectacular rainbow trout. Some underwater inspection shows that leeches and cranefly larvae are on the menu, and . . .
Read MoreStory & Photos: The Value of “One and Done”
In 2019, I interviewed a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officer regarding the impact of social media on Leave No Trace practices in the Owyhee canyonlands in eastern Oregon. It took more than an hour of . . .
Read MoreStory and Photos: Two Days of Trout in Utah
February in Park City, Utah, is well known for fantastic skiing, snowboarding, and all things winter. But for me, the best part is that none of those people are on the blue-ribbon trout waters nearby. It also helps to have awesome friends send you . . .
Read MoreVideo: The Midnight Mission
Filmmaker Gilbert Rowley and his friend Chris felt so bad about losing their fishing buddy Kohler to other pursuits that they decided to do something about it. So they devised an adventure that would surely jump-start Kohler’s return to fly fishing. . . .
Read MoreTips for Fishing High-Elevation Lakes for Brook Trout
My friend Jeff and I recently took our families to explore a high elevation lake and stream in the Uinta Mountains of Utah for a couple of days. The hike to the lake was only about a mile, but we had heard good things about it. When we arrived, . . .
Read MoreVideo and Story: “Overboard” on the Green River
It’s 2011. I’m on Utah’s Green River shooting my first film for Trout Unlimited. The Green is a marvelous blue ribbon running through red rock. I need to see every stretch of it because there’s . . .
Read MorePhotos and Story: Magical Evenings in the Utah High Country
This year–with a very large winter snowpack and a cool, wet spring in Utah–most of our rivers were blown out with heavy runoff for most of June. We turned to some areas that we don’t fish very often, such as beaver ponds, backwaters, and lakes. A few . . .
Read MorePhoto of the Day: Perfect Timing
Roberts says he captured this image during a brief interlude between hookups on a banner day on the Green.
Photo by Doug Roberts, Old Moe Guide Service
Utahn Doug Roberts–who runs Old Moe Guide Service, based in the town of Dutch John, sent in this killer photo of a big brown getting ready to send a blue-winged olive down the hatch. Huge . . .
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