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 Park City, Utah Fly Fishing: A Trout Bum Paradise?
Posted by dee on Monday, January 08 @ 09:15:07 PST
Fly fishers living here in Park City, Utah have a large amount of consistent water to fish on. Within a few minutes or few hours you can fish your choice of quality backcountry streams, big rivers or still water. But with so many amenities and a large city near by crowding can be a problem. My question is: If you could live anywhere in the west to fish for trout, where and why?
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Re: Park City, Utah Fly Fishing: A Trout Bum Paradise?
by tonym on Monday, January 08 @ 11:12:07 PST | That's a tough one..but Missoula Mt. wouldn't be too bad. Let's see...the Bitteroot, the Blackfoot, Rock creek,Clarks Fork, the Missouri.and that's only the water thats RIGHT there. If a guy wanted to fish an hour or two away...check out a map and see what I'm trying to say. On the other hand Bozemen MT. wouldn't bee too bad either...The Madison, Gallatin, Hanry's Fork,
yellowstone Park Again, see map. Tight lines! |
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Re: Park City, Utah Fly Fishing: A Trout Bum Paradise?
by skitch976 (skitch976@gmail.com) on Monday, January 08 @ 12:48:51 PST | I think I might have to agree with tony about those two locations and throw a third into it: West Yellowstone. Yes it is touristy place but it is located in a great location for close fishing and is within a reasonable distance of Missoula with its rivers and also Salmon Idaho with its Steelhead. Also, within a short distance is the entire snake river and also some trophy trout lakes in southern Idaho.
But with all this said there is just something about northern Utah that keeps me here. The Logan river and Blacksmith fork 45 minutes from my house to the north, the ogden and Weber with 20 minutes and the provo within an hour, not to mention small streams and great high country lakes.
Sounds like a soul searching question. |
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Re: Park City, Utah Fly Fishing: A Trout Bum Paradise?
by jason-c on Monday, January 08 @ 13:33:37 PST http://www.fliesandfinswest.com | | I will give you guys that. To some extent. I have lived in Colorado and I travel every month for work. Road trips to Idaho and Wyoming regularly (fishing is almost always included). I have to say that Utah, and its surrounding states, have the best fishing around. Here the secret spots are still secret and there are plenty of them. Virtually no crowds. You can't find that in a lot of places. Second, Utah has a large, international airport. So if you fish around the country or even the world you can get there easily. There are so many option within a days drive that is it hard to beat. |
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Re: Park City, Utah Fly Fishing: A Trout Bum Paradise?
by KodiakCommando on Monday, January 08 @ 15:07:45 PST http://www.fishalaskamagazine.com | | That's a tough question. I used to live in utah and fished there and the surrounding states in my young fishing life and my dad fished over 80 days a years in utah, montana and wyoming every year from 76 till 96 and we both loved it. That being said we would both choose alaska in a heartbeat. Although we don't have the variety of trout IMO we have the best fishing in the world for Rainbow trout and dolly varden and were are right up there with grayling and steelhead. I think the size of rainbows up here are unmatched, on one trip to the naknek My dad and I caugh 8 bows over 30 inches in 6 days and that's actually common. You just can't do that in montana and did i mention we only saw 6 other boats the whole trip! The amount of wilderness and secret spots in alaska is unmatched. Twice the size of texas and only 700,000 people most of which live in one city anchorage and the surrounding area. |
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Re: Park City, Utah Fly Fishing: A Trout Bum Paradise?
by alex on Tuesday, January 09 @ 15:31:56 PST http://www.rominasavastano.com | | I have to say Oregon having lived there for six years it is incredible place to fish and has unlimited rivers with huge beautiful fish.. Alex |
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Re: Park City, Utah Fly Fishing: A Trout Bum Paradise?
by markw3 on Wednesday, January 17 @ 10:49:47 PST | | I must say, I have never lived or fished in Utah, but I always wanted to. I have, however, lived and fished in Missoula Mt., Oregon, and Alaska. I will admit that Montana was an amazing place to fish for trout because of the variety of water it offered, and nothing beats Alaska from May-September... but if I was looking for paradise, I would look for a place that could be fished 365 days a year. Alaska is far from that, and Montana can have poor to non existent fishing for several months as well (depending on the weather or course) not to mention the dreaded spring run off. Oregon has good fishing for most of the year, but the size of the trout there are pretty pathetic on average (unless you count steelhead). I think I had the perfect situation when I was going to school in Oregon and fishing for steelhead and trout all fall/winter/spring... then migrating to Alaska for the summer to guide for salmon and trout. As for now, I'm stuck in Alaska for the winter; and believe me, it's no trout bum paradise in January! |
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