After fishing the Arizona Wild Trout challenge I was eager to find similar programs. One that stuck out to me was the Utah Cutthroat Slam because I had never fished for any Cutthroat species before. It took a while for things to come together but when a good friend I made from my fly fishing writing invited […]
I needed to be in South Lake Tahoe for a meeting in late September and knew that the window to catch native lahontan cutthroat in the Tahoe basin was quickly closing. For those of you who don’t know, any waters that drain into Lake Tahoe are only opening for fishing from July 30 to Sept […]
In April of 2013 work called my wife and I out to Denver, CO for a week. Considering we’d never really explored UT or CO together we figured a road-trip was in order. Knowing that we’d be passing through very fishy water I mapped out some options for where we could find new (to us) […]
Early July around Lake Tahoe marks the opening for many watersheds, including those that hold reintroduced strains of heritage cutthroat. This happened to coincide with the year’s addition of the Alta Alpina Challenge. The day before hitting the water, a couple of buddies of mine and I tackled the six-pass iteration of the challenge. We […]