Flaming Gorge First Visit

[Hail2dskins]

I wanted to thank everyone on this thread that provided valuable information for my trip. I just got back from from this beautiful Flaming Gorge vacation. I wished I could claim that we caught a lot of fish but that was not the case. As a matter of fact we fished hard for 4 days and only caught one lake trout (12lbs) the entire trip. I was really surprised that we could not find the pup lake trout that everyone claims were out of control? The weather was spectacular and the wind was very minimal the entire 4 days of our visit.

I must say that the biggest surprise of the entire trip was the lack of boat inspections at the Lucerne boat ramp when we arrived. Prior to making this trip it appeared that the inspection process was going to be very detailed and that I must have all my ducks in a row. On Monday morning we arrived at the boat ramp and no inspections or employees were on hand? Everyone else launching boats told us not to worry and just go ahead and launch our out of state boat and have a good time. We fished for 4 days and never once did we get inspected coming or going from from the lake. Besides this awkward situation we still had a great time.

As I mentioned we did not do well at all when it came to catching lake trout but you can bet that I will be back again next spring to try this again!

Thanks,