I'd walk (or drive) 500 miles..

Ahh, the old Hobble Creek. Like old friends getting back together, it was nice to be on Hobble again. Slightly overcast, 50 deg. I started below the golf course, just wanted to get on the water quick.

Here's the skinny. fished about an hour, caught 8 or so.. had a great time. Then i quickly headed down south.. way down south, St. George way. Caught rumor of a couple nice streams, had to check them out. OK, i had paintings to drop off in S.G., but what the hey..

Here's some video from Hobble.


There are some nice browns in Hobble. Most of what i caught was in the 10-12" range, but there quite a few nicer fish. I'm amazed at how much this stream looks like LHF. Now to head SOUTH, way South, to Dixie.

I found the pull out to the next stream I wanted to fish, North of S.G., it was around 7pm, and the dirt road was closed to vehicles. But what beautiful scenery.. watch the video. I may be partial to fishing in the desert amid redrocks and junipers.. so different than alpine scenery.The walk in looked to be 2-4 miles.. so i decided to save this stream for another day. It looked good, well ok, i couldn't actually see it, but it was remote, off the beaten path... just ready for exploration. I drove into S.G. got business taken care of and then drove out to another stream that I could actually drive to. Little stream, would be the optimal word here. but still... where's there's running water, I shall cast a line. And did, and caught a small cutt. The sun set, the light faded but I fished till I could no longer see, caught several small cutts, amid the redrock backdrop, even caught a 8" cutt, in the last hole.

This stream (in the video) will haunt my dreams until I can return. I'm thinking May. Anyone up for that?

Not sure when run off is, or if they have run off in the desert, but I feel the need to r-u-n-n-o-f-t....