Wind!!

So I decided since we were having a nice spell of weather that I'd hit the Logan River and see how good the fishing was, I had heard some midge hatch's were coming off and the usual patterns like the hair's ear, pheasant tail and egg patterns were producing fairly well. I should note that I do not fish Logan very often, for one it's usually loaded with people, I usually fish it during the dead of winter and you usually only see a few die hards or idiots like me, second the fish, well they just don't get very big, every once in a while your given a surprise with one that exceeds 16", but normally the fish run in that 10-14"range, the selection is usually brown's, brook's, cutt's and bow's with a few white fish mixed in. After a morning of chores I loaded up and made a quick run up the canyon, It was a pretty nice day, the sun was shining and the temps were in the mid 30's. I hopped out and grabbed my rod and noticed I had left my fly bag at home, armed with only some fairly large streamers I decided to give it a go anyway, within about 20 minutes I had landed the 1st fish, about a 12" cutt which I had watched chase my fly pretty much the whole way through the pool I was fishing in, as I was releasing him I noticed it had started to cloud up, within minutes it was blowing 25+ mph and it never let up!! I fished for the next 2 hours relentlessly hitting every deep pool I could find, the wind made it extremely miserable, I got tired of digging my fly out the willow's and it can get pretty old when a big weighted streamer is continually smacking you in the head as the wind changes directions. I missed a few fish and only managed to land one more and it was a tiny a brown.



 I ran into a older gentlemen from a local town, I can't remember his name at this current moment but we fished for the last hour and half together, there wasn't much for conversation which seemed awfully strange, we talked mostly about the fish in the Logan and good patterns to use, which I didn't have much contribution to the topic, but he did manage to take a few pictures as I fished my way up the canyon. The weather looks like its going to be good for the next few days, hopefully this time I don't forget my nymph's!!



Gear used:
Simms G3 Waders
Cabelas Ultralight Wading Boots
Simms Windstopper Hooded Jacket
Kuiu SuperLight Down Jacket
St. Croix Imperial 9ft 4wt.
Cabela's Prestige Premier Reel
Scientific Anglers XPS 4wt Line
Sculpzilla size 6 and 8 Olive and Black