about 3 months ago - 1 comment
I get ask to go fishing with others almost on a daily basis, but this time it was different. Griff was turning 13 and all he wanted to do for his b-day was to go fishing with me, his dad Jeff, best friend Preston and best friends dad Todd. The plan was set for a 2 [...]
about 4 months ago - No comments
When the fishing is great, the great do whatever it takes to be on the water. This past week the fishing has been great. The famed Blue Wing Olive Mayfly has been hatching daily on a local trout stream, bringing some of the best top water action of the year, as well as producing a [...]
about 7 months ago - No comments
Thanksgiving to most is a time to be with family and friends. For the first time in 27 yrs I found myself wondering what I was going to do before the big feast. Normally I have plans to play football or basketball with the family, but with everyone in Cali visiting my bro, I found myself free [...]
about 8 months ago - No comments
With snow in the forecast I didn’t think much about fly fishing this weekend, in fact I was thinking bird hunting or some late season deer rut. Saturday found me chasing birds in the morning and after that I had the whole afternoon to hit the river. As I drove up the canyon I though what a beautiful [...]
about 8 months ago - No comments
There is something special about living in Utah that I really hadn’t noticed until now. It had always been part of my life so I never really took the time to notice it or realize why it makes me do the things I do. So here it is; The thing that makes this state so [...]
about 10 months ago - 1 comment
So with all the craz of family parties and getting back into life, post mission. I hadn’t had a chance to take my little bro fly fishing on our favorite local river. One of our favorite times of year and hatches to fish is the summer caddis hatch. It occurs on most western streams nightly and can [...]
about 12 months ago - No comments
Every year my whole Gillespie family tries to go somewhere in the back country on a fishing/hiking trip. Most of the time my parents don’t come and its just the kids hiking into beautiful alpine lakes, but this year I decided we should try somewhere just a little different that the whole family could enjoy. [...]
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Picture Of The Week: Fished To Death
Jordan after a long day of hot summer fishing in SE Idaho…You can imagine what he thought when I started the Jeep…
about 1 year ago - No comments
Fly Of The Week: Green Drake
These large insects are trout candy on our western streams. Green drakes are the largest mayflies that provide fishable hatches in our fast local waters. Hatches occur during mid-day and are usually easily visible. Windless, cloud-cover days are best. Green Drakes are large insects and evidently taste really good to trout. [...]
about 1 year ago - 1 comment
Novembers Fish Story
With one big fish to net I was back glassing the water for another. After a couple smaller fish, I spotted what I though was a sunken log in front of a big rock, until it moved after a something and returned in its feeding lane 50+ ft from us. My first cast [...]
There our those times that you get something on you mind and its all you want to do and think about. With me it 
happens all the time. I am a very passionate person when I get my mind wrap around a subject. About a month ago it was Green Drakes. They were the target and I was going to do anything to find them and imiate them. It first started with tying a whole new box of them, then I had gotten a tip from a friend to there current location and with a free Saturday I was now chasing them with my friend Hoss. The hunt didn’t go as planned, We didn’t see one Green Drake all day. But it was OK because during the chase we were able to witness a great PMD hatch, Caddis hatch, and Stone Fly hatch to fill the void. Best of all I was able to use some of the big drakes that I tied and they work as if the hatch was on fire. 
I don’t know excatly what it is, but there is something special about being on a trout stream from 8am -9:30pm. You are tired, beat, hungry, and completely refresthed with the the things that you have seem and learned as the day changed. It was a great day…
