To The South!

[LOAH]

My family and I thought it would be nice to take a long drive and fish some open water in the pleasant weather of southern Utah yesterday (3-5) and we also brought my good friend, Holdsworth.

Since I found out that he's moving out of state soon, I've been trying to get him into some nice fish before he goes. The ice season was much slower for us than usual, so it was a welcome chance to go down and actually cast for big angry rainbows.

We arrived at Otter Creek Reservoir quite late and the fishing was pretty slow overall. The fish we caught were pretty nice though. My first fish came on a minnow, but that's the only bait hit I got all day. The others came on a Blue Fox.

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Holdsworth had the lucky hand today with quite a few fish and 2 over 20"! All on the Blue Fox. I got both on video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1yC0ewi8_4

We measured it out at 23"! Nice. He really needed that.

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That's a happy guy.

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A little while later, he had another big one on (20in) and I also recorded that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwg07SCcQQw

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Icing on the cake for him. He also got a few smaller ones.

http://i1199.photobucket.com/albums/aa478/justisaurus79/IMGP2541.jpg

Sadly, my wife wasn't able to pull anything in. Maybe next time.

The weather was pretty nice and the wind wasn't too much of a factor, where we fished. Granted, you can almost always count on a good breeze at OC, but we situated ourselves on the leeward side of a point to cancel that out, mostly.

There was a good haze of clouds taking the bite off the sunshine and one neat looking cloud that loomed over the lake all day.

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It was a great time for us, and especially for Holdsworth, who caught his largest rainbows and his largest on a lure. Way cool. Totally worth the drive, as it usually is.

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Happy Fishing, Humans.

[accadacca]

Sweet bow! I love the new license plate! :rockon:

[offpiste]

:2thumbs: Yep the license plate says it all.

[Deathcricket]

Nice TR! Could almost feel the envy dripping off your voice with the video though... :haha::haha:

[LOAH]

:lol8: Yeah, I noticed that too.

"Here's Holdsworth with another big one..."

[Avid]

Nice trout pics and good story! Still a bit too cold here but getting pumped to get out and do some fishing!
Bump for you.

[LOAH]

Thanks. Be sure to let us know how you do, when the time comes.