Camp Kiesel Lake

Camp Kiesel's lake is fairly small but holds hundreds of brown trout. Several weeks ago I was at Kiesel for training and walked down to the lake, when the sun came up over the mountains and shined down in the lake I saw the trout, hundreds of them. Some of them were easily in the 24" range. Camp Kiesel's lake can be seen on Google Earth at N 41° 18.898 W 111° 34.632.


Location: Camp Kiesel Lake
Fish Caught: 14" Brown Trout, SE bank of lake about 2' from shore
Fly Used: #10 Brass bead head, black marabou tail with flash,
black/green flash body, weighted, black hackle, used an SI.
Time: 1030
Notes: Fish hit the fly so hard he set the hook. I was retrieving the
the fly intending to move to another location and was not intently
using any retrieval technique, quite a surprise.

Fish Caught: 12" Brown Trout, SE bank of lake about 5' from shore
Fly Used: #10 Brass bead head, black marabou tail with flash,
black/green flash body, weighted, black hackle. No SI.
Time: 1100
Notes: Casting into a school of about 10 trout of different sizes. The
fish was following the fly and was about an inch away from the fly
when I started stripping the line slowly, when I jerked the line
the fish struck. First time I have ever seen a fish strike
anything that I was fishing with, awesome experience.


Unsuccessful flies: #10 green scud with clear shell and olive floss. Green
flash antennas and tail.
#10 hopper.


Flies to try: Nymphs.

The reason for this blog

I recently started fly fishing and had what I consider my very first successful fly fishing trip. I have been struggling to fish the various rivers in Northern Utah with extremely small success. Today, 06Sep10, Tom Williams and I went to a small lake next to Causey Resevoir. The small lake has no name but sits on a Boy Scout camp called Camp Kiesel. I caught two brown trout, 14" and 12" respectively on a black wooly bugger with a brass bead head. After I got home and did some Internet searching I found out that lake fly fishing is very different from fly fishing for trout in a stream or river.
I need a place to log my successses and failures with fishing in both stillwater and moving water. I originally intended to log in a notebook but realized that Internet blogging was easier to keep up with and search when I need too. Anyway, here we go...