Fly-Fishing: Three Streams, Four Plateaus, Utah

Utah’s better-known mountains and slickrock deserts have a more modest sibling, the high plateaus. Flat layers of dark grey limestone or black basalt cap this high spine of the state at between 7,000 and 11,000 feet of elevation. These plateaus gather storm clouds in the fall and 200 inches of snow in the winter. Which then provides cold crisp water for trout throughout the seasons. The only native trout would have been the Bonneville Cutthroat trout to the west and the Colorado River Cutthroat to the east. A few Cutts will be seen in here, however, the rough-and-tumble Brown and Brook trout, planted decades ago, currently dominate.

[@moscaman559]

Beautiful scenery along with your Four Wheel camper !

[@noelslater822]

I watch your vids now as much for vittles you cook up as I do for the fishing and scenery! Beautiful, and they always leave me hungry! 😁

[@jdoza5184]

Very cool. Thanks

[@UtahTenkara]

Just an awesome video. Huge fish. Thanks for sharing. A few weeks ago I did a trip to Montana. So much private property and so many rivers closed. Then come back to Utah and like you just catching lots of fish on open waters. Made me realize how good we have it in Utah!

[@SanJuanMountainBob]

That must have been a great time - it was fun to watch. Nice fish and I love the water clarity this time of year. Cool to see you catch some in that "ditch"...tough spot to drop a fly. haha Thanks for sharin!

[@nicholskk]

Thanks for watching. I did not hit it every time!

[@keith6820]

Non-Native fish. Bank em