Sherck therapy

Brian starts his freshman year at BYU next week and so it is, of course, a good reason to go fishing.  Today Brian and I were joined by Brad and Jeff Scherck.   Brad is Rob's son in law.

First time fly fishing today for Jeff Scherck, Brad's dad.  Brad is married to Rob's youngest daughter, Natalie, and Jeff thinks this is great.  He's always wanted to try fly fishing and says Brad chose his new family well.  We started the morning at Diamond Fork which fished as if it had been hammered, which judging from the number of anglers and vehicles we saw along the road, it probably had been.  We saw not a fish in an hour with four of us thrashing the water.  

Enough of that--we headed to Thistle Creek!  Very brushy, but at least there were a few fish willing to take a swipe at a fly.  However, it is really difficult to fish with four people in this tiny creek so we continued on to Nebo Creek.  Jeff & Rob starting where we parked and Brian and Brad heading up the road a ways before dropping into the creek.

Rob missed a fish in the first hole and managed to land one in the next hole--accidents will happen.  Jeff then landed his first fish on a fly in the same hole.  A beautiful small brown trout. 

Brad's father, Jeff, with his first fish on a fly.  A nice little brown trout.

More fish were seen and enticed to the fly over the course of the next couple of hours.  We did get rained on pretty well midway through--big drops that kept coming and coming.  Hats, shirts and arms all quite wet.  It did make it cool and comfortable so that was nice.

This guy found the Irresistible simply impossible to resist

Brian and Brad managed to find some fish as well so it was a good move to head here.  We saw no other fisherman and had the quiet solitude all to ourselves.  With a good day of stream therapy behind him, Brian should now be ready for the rigors of a university education and Brad should be ready for grad school.  Both boys start school next week.

This one broke off while trying to take a photo, but Brian managed to catch it by hand downstream and retrieve his fly after a nice "thank you" kiss of the fish!

I love fishing in Utah Valley and surrounding canyons.  Hopefully we can come visit occasionally to check on the welfare of Natalie, Brad & Ben as well as Ben's "Uncle Brian" and perhaps participate in some stream therapy.

Another brown from the pocket water