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Fly Fishing For Uinta Mountain Albinos |
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By Robert Williamson (As published in Utah Fishing magazine) I had just lost my last woolly bugger to a chunky rainbow while float tubing the middle of Butterfly Lake in the Uinta Mountains. I have always had good luck using the bugger on most of the high country lakes, especially black ones, but now I had to turn to other methods. Earlier, I had noticed a group of albino trout working the shoreline where I had entered the water. I had passed them by because I have not really gotten used to them yet. (They remind me of goldfish.) I decided to float over and see if I could, at least, see what they were sipping on. As I moved in closer, I could tell they were picking on something small but I could not get a clear look at it. The smallest flies I had were some small black midge pupa in about a size 18. 1 tied one on and tried to pick out the path of an oncoming albino. The cast landed close to where I wanted it, so I watched as the albino leisurely turned to investigate. The fish looked at my fly and then turned away. Another albino approached and I watched as it sipped twice before spotting my fly. Again the fish suddenly turned away. This happened enough times to make me think my fly was the wrong color. I searched for something of a different color, and came up with an olive-green fly, size 16; a little big but I trimmed it down. I must have made about 15 casts with the same result as before. Questions about my lack of success kept circling through my mind. Just as I was about to lose patience with this game, a notion popped into my head to give the fly a slight twitch the next time one of those albinos decide to turn away. Again I made my cast and waited. Soon an albino approached and took a look at my fly. As soon as it got within range, and just before it turned, I gave the fly an ever-so-slight twitch. Instantly the albino rushed forward and I found myself playing him as he rock-and-rolled on the water surface. On the next three casts I achieved the same results, and then mysteriously, my technique would not work anymore. I could not interest any of the trout to take my fly, so I worked my way to the shore and headed back to camp. When in the Uintas, I still occasionally try to catch the albinos, but now I always make sure I have a never-ending supply of black woolly buggers. |
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