GUIDING THE GREEN

FOR TEN YEARS, I ROWED UTAH'S GREEN RIVER AS A FULL TIME LICENSED FLY FISHING GUIDE FOR TROUT CREEK FLIES, ONE OF UTAH'S FINEST OUTFITTERS. THESE PICTURES ARE SCANT EVIDENCE OF A INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE IN A SPECTACULAR PLACE. BEGINNING IN THE SNOWS OF APRIL AND ENDING IN THE SNOWS OF OCTOBER, WITH EVERY KIND OF WEATHER GOD COULD THINK OF IN BETWEEN, GREEN RIVER GUIDES HAVE A LONG SEASON. AND BETWEEN RIGGING, AND ROWING, AND TEACHING, AND FISH HANDLING, AND COOKING, AND DETANGLING, AND RERIGGING, AND CAJOLING, AND CONSOLING, AND IN GENERAL PAMPERING ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD, THERE JUST NEVER SEEMED TO BE MUCH TIME FOR PICTURE TAKING.

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EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY

(Even a dumb rookie.)
The water is very high here. Maybe 10,400 cfs or better, making drift boat fishing very difficult. On a day when the best boat in our five boat group caught 8 fish, this client and his son put over 50 fish in my net. (By my clients count. I always lose track past about ten.) How? I listened to my clients. They saw the fish stacked up against the bank by the heavy water and wanted them bad. The only way at them was wade fishing. And wade fishing the Green at 10,400 is no joke. Sounded a little crazy to me. But I rigged them up and let them have at it. And they had the wading and fishing skills to pull it off. A lot of the wading was pretty hairball, but it worked. More beginners luck than good sense on my part.

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