Green River, 2007

Rugged Weather, Good Fishing

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April 2007


The usual suspects and a couple of new ones were rounded up below Flaming Gorge Dam on the Green River at Dutch John, Utah in late April. The usual suspects were Mary Nishioka and daughterLauré, guides Doug Burton and Darren Bowcutt. New additions to this perennial enterprise were Ron Nunes and Mike McGuire.

Some of the suspects
L to R, Doug, Ron, Darren, Mike at the A-Section Launch below Flaming Gorge Dam

The story of the Green River Fishout has been told quite a few times by PFF'ers see [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] Picking and choosing from these the story of this trip could be told, We fished the A section twice and the B section once. We generally fished small (#18) nymphs ;under indicator balloons mornings, and had blue winged olive hatches in the afternoons which made good dry fly fishing two of the days on the A section, but was blown away by high wind the day we were on the B section. Enough good can't be said about our guides Doug and Darren, superb boat handlers, finders of fish, untanglers of leaders, tyers of effective flies, fishing coaches and hot lunch chefs during our drifts with them.

Laure gets a brown
Lauré Gets a Nicely Colored Brown

Mary Gets a Bend in Her Rod
Mary Gets a Bend in her Rod

So does Ron
So Does Ron

As in past years, the group stayed at Spring Creek Ranch, just over the border in Wyoming, comfortable accomodations, good food, and no quaint Utah liquor laws to have to evade.