03-15-2003, 08:59 PM
[cool]Never a need to apologize for having had fewer opportunities than others. It's what you make of the opportunities, and the personal enjoyment and satisfaction you derive from the experience that counts. If anyone were to have to be limited to fishing only in Utah, and having an occasional trip to the Uintas, that person is still rich.
There aren't many states with the diversity and the overall fishing quality of Utah. And, when it comes to heart-fluttering beauty, the Uintas are right near the top of the alpine trouting environments in the west. The size of the fish are not important. Even though I have caught fish much larger than myself, I have never caught any more beautiful than those little jewels from the high mountain streams and lakes. Each time I return to the mountains, it is as much to worship as to fish. Those fiesty little wild trout that volunteer to join me for a campfire cookout are only the benediction to a truly religious experience.
I think that's one of the reasons I never tire of watching the movie Jeremiah Johnson. It was filmed largely in the Uintas and does a great job of capturing the essence. Like I suspect you might feel, I sometimes wonder if I was born a hundred years too late.
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There aren't many states with the diversity and the overall fishing quality of Utah. And, when it comes to heart-fluttering beauty, the Uintas are right near the top of the alpine trouting environments in the west. The size of the fish are not important. Even though I have caught fish much larger than myself, I have never caught any more beautiful than those little jewels from the high mountain streams and lakes. Each time I return to the mountains, it is as much to worship as to fish. Those fiesty little wild trout that volunteer to join me for a campfire cookout are only the benediction to a truly religious experience.
I think that's one of the reasons I never tire of watching the movie Jeremiah Johnson. It was filmed largely in the Uintas and does a great job of capturing the essence. Like I suspect you might feel, I sometimes wonder if I was born a hundred years too late.
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