Daniels creek was calling my name all day and after finishing up the last meeting of the day I headed out from Salt Lake City to Heber City. It took me 30 minutes to get from the office to Interstate 80 (rush hour) but I finally got moving and arrived at the pull out at about 7PM - 1.5 hours total drive time. There was the big decision to consider,(fly rod or ultralite?) but brother Paul helped me out over the phone. In the words of his eldest son - "some streams are fly fishing streams and some are made for ultralight spinning gear".
Daniels Creek is definitely the latter.
As I eased down into the first hole, I was surprised to see a buck in velvet standing in the creek. He didn't see or hear me at first (you really have to sneak up on these fish) and I even got a shot of him through the trees before he headed out.
I tried the white roostertail spinner and once again it proved to be just what the Dr. ordered for this fat rainbow.
I picked up a nice cutt in the next pool.
When I arrived at "the spot" I decided to try a white wooly bugger that I tied for a situation like this. If I was going to use a spinning rod at least I could use a hand-tied fly!
As I hoped, there was a nice cutt just waiting for what I was offering.
I had a lot of fun and caught a total of ten fat cutthroats.
Just before dark I caught the most colorful fish of the evening.
Look at the gill plates on this one:
This beauty was almost as showy as a brook trout!
I hated to leave but two hours of good fishing made it worth the drive.
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