My First Trip to Pyramid Lake Nathan Leavitt December 21, 2009 Fish Stories I'm usually playing catch up and posting on old trips but I thought I'd switch things up and add a recent post about my recent days at the ever so popular Pyramid Lake, NV....
Birthday Brownies Nathan Leavitt November 7, 2009 Fish Stories, Memorable Fish 1 Comment It was day two of a little birthday fishing extravaganza with my lady. After a fun evening of fishing the day before I was having a good day of tossing big bugs to some fall brown trout....
Sight-Fished Colorado Cutthroat Nathan Leavitt November 6, 2009 One-Hit Wonders My wife and I were camping to celebrate my birthday. I spent the evening sight fishing to cruising fish and ended up getting into a nice Colorado Cutthroat....
Quick Stop Rainbow Nathan Leavitt October 17, 2009 One-Hit Wonders I had a quick minute to hit some water. With the lady and little man in tow we set out and began walking the banks. I was setup with a beefy streamer (cause fall is streamer fishing time of course!) and ready...
My Little Fishing Buddy Nathan Leavitt August 29, 2009 Fish Stories 2 Comments Zev is a little wild man. He already loves being outside - just like his dad. Almost from birth, going outside seemed to calm and soothe him....
Up North: Epic End to an Epic Trip Nathan Leavitt July 25, 2009 Fish Stories After a week of pure sweetness we were down to our last day. We traveled back to "Jurassic Lake" - the place that had shown me the biggest rainbow trout of my life. I was stoked....
Up North: The One That Got Away Nathan Leavitt July 24, 2009 Fish Stories, Popular 2 Comments Prior to our trip Derek had agreed to take a family friend out for some bull trout so we made the journey back to some familiar water. While we had already been blessed with some good fish, we had caught brief...
Up North: Evasive Gold Nathan Leavitt July 23, 2009 Fish Stories 1 Comment Time was limited, but we both wanted to get up and hopefully get into some golden trout. We drove to the trailhead and started our hike to a lake that holds some good size goldens....
Up North: More Bull trout Nathan Leavitt July 22, 2009 Fish Stories With some changes to our original plans we set out to fish for bull trout in a new area. The river itself was beautiful and it was something else to see bullies of all sizes holding in the deeper runs and...
Up North: The Long Awaited Bull Trout Hunt Nathan Leavitt July 21, 2009 Fish Stories, Memorable Fish 2 Comments This was the day I had been waiting for. Today we were to hunt bullies. The trip was already off to a great start, but I could hardly contain my stoke-level that I finally ha a chance to chase these fish. The drive was a long combination of pavement and dirt. Our hike took us in and out of trees, across waters, and over colored pebbles rounded by the glacial-fed river. The surroundings were much like I had imagined, but definitely more. This place was simply incredible.
Up North: Epic Start to an Epic Trip Nathan Leavitt July 20, 2009 Fish Stories, Memorable Fish 5 Comments My infatuation with bull trout started a little over a year ago. A mysterious fish that grows to immense size. They inhabit pure waters in wild places. Besides their size and the beautiful places where they're...
California Gem: Redband Trout Nathan Leavitt July 11, 2009 Fish Stories We set out from my wife's family cabin on motorcycles to go explore some streams in a nearby canyon. We were hoping to explore a larger stream that I'd seen on the topo map....
Quick Trip to the Green River Nathan Leavitt June 19, 2009 Fish Stories My wife and I had been put in charge of a youth conference and the spot that had been chosen was the good 'ol Green. We wanted to scope out the group spots beforehand so that we had an idea of the lay of the...
“I Got One!!!” Nathan Leavitt June 11, 2009 Fish Stories 2 Comments So, naturally, I've wanted to get my lady hooked on fly fishing. She'd had very little exposure to it but I was convinced that she'd get a kick out summertime hopper fishing. I took her to one of my favorite...
Spring on Boulder Mountain Nathan Leavitt May 30, 2009 Fish Stories My wife is always telling me how she wants to move back to northern California, and how beautiful it is there, so I'd been wanting to show my wife more of what Utah has to offer....
Good Times with Good Buddies Nathan Leavitt May 2, 2009 Fish Stories 1 Comment Already this year we'd put some time into fishing this challenging water. Derek and I are addicted. I haven't spent too much time fishing stillwater and we're determined to figure out all the ins and outs...