Lees Ferry

November 24th 2008

For Thanksgiving this year we were heading up to Utah and being that we did not feel our son could manage a 12 hour car drive in one sitting I thought up the perfect selfless plan. It just so happens that halfway between our home and Utah is Lees Ferry, one of the best tail water fisheries in the South West. So after staying the night in a very simple Hotel in the very small town of Marble Canyon we met out guide for the day Rocky and we were headed up the Colorado searching for a monster Rainbow.

One of the reasons we choose the guide company we went with was that they actually encouraged me to bring my wife and son along for the day. I was very impressed with this as I could totally understand why a guide would not want a small child along for the day. Our guide rocky was great and we all had a blast. The day started off pretty good as we started to hook up one fish after another. After several fish Rocky thought we should try to head up river in search of some larger fish. As we went up river the fishing seemed to slow down and by the afternoon it had totally shut down, and while I was bumbed to see it slow down we had a great morning. At one of the holes along the way I thought I had hooked the big one. After a solid hook set the fish started to run, and after taking several feet of line it did not stop running, soon I was in my backing and the guide was rushing to pull up the anchor so we could chase the fish down before I ran out of line. Well after a good fight and a lot of excitment I landed the fish and instead of being the big one it turned out that I had just hooked in on the outside of the mouth which allowed it to fight much harder. So my search continues for the fish that will take me into my backing.



All three of us were in total amazement of the beauty of the Canyon. The water was clear and crisp and everywere we looked we were amazed at the beauty. It was a cold day and being so deep in the canyon we did not see all that much sun shine, we were bundled up and enjoyed the crisp weather. Carter had a blast walking around on the boat, watching the fishies, and being a charming.