Last week Leann's brother, David, and his family came up to Utah to visit. On Friday, he and some of his nephews went fishing at Salem Pond. They had a great time and caught lots of fish. In fact, David said he was pulling out twenty-four-inch trout using nightcrawlers. Well, that sounded too good to pass up, so yesterday Leann and I cut out of work early and drove down to Salem with one of her co-workers.
That morning the weather report promised a 100% chance of rain for when we planned to be there. We went anyway. Not only was there rain, but also wind and snow. But mostly just wind. In fact, after a while it cleared up and was almost pleasant. Then it started to hail.[1]
Apparently the fish at Salem pond lost interest in worms. I could see some huge brown trout from where I was standing. (Some meaning more than ten.) I dangled worms, power bait, a wet fly, and salmon eggs in front of them. Nothing roused the slightest sign of interest from them. Snobs. However, I did manage to land two normal-sized golden trout [2] using a spinner. Leann caught one golden trout and one brown trout and her friend, Jordan, caught a golden trout.
Besides the fish, we also saw some mallard ducks, coots, crows, Canada geese, cormorants, and a muskrat (shown above; sorry about the image quality).
Notes:
[1] It was a pretty mild hailstorm, though, as hailstorms go.
[2] Some people refer to these as 'albino trout' because of their pale color. They are a mutant form of the Rainbow Trout (not to be confused with the California Golden trout, a subspecies native to California).
That morning the weather report promised a 100% chance of rain for when we planned to be there. We went anyway. Not only was there rain, but also wind and snow. But mostly just wind. In fact, after a while it cleared up and was almost pleasant. Then it started to hail.[1]
Apparently the fish at Salem pond lost interest in worms. I could see some huge brown trout from where I was standing. (Some meaning more than ten.) I dangled worms, power bait, a wet fly, and salmon eggs in front of them. Nothing roused the slightest sign of interest from them. Snobs. However, I did manage to land two normal-sized golden trout [2] using a spinner. Leann caught one golden trout and one brown trout and her friend, Jordan, caught a golden trout.
Besides the fish, we also saw some mallard ducks, coots, crows, Canada geese, cormorants, and a muskrat (shown above; sorry about the image quality).
Notes:
[1] It was a pretty mild hailstorm, though, as hailstorms go.
[2] Some people refer to these as 'albino trout' because of their pale color. They are a mutant form of the Rainbow Trout (not to be confused with the California Golden trout, a subspecies native to California).
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