After a hiking trip in southeast Utah last year, I revisited Mountain View Reservoir on the Duck Valley Sho-Pai Reservation—20 years since my last visit. My memory held true: big water, big fish, solid numbers. So, repeat success, right? You’d think 40 years of fly fishing would prevent rookie mistakes. Not quite.

A report from an outstanding fishing adventure to the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in southwest Idaho on the Nevada border. The fish were willing with the added bonus that they were simply ginormous.