Southwest General

>>1056974
Sorry for the photo; I'm too stupid to post correctly

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I'm in Salt Lake City and I used to live in Flagstaff, Arizona. If you're interested in flyfishing, there is some really good lake terrain in an area called "The Boulders" in southern Utah. If you're willing to go a little farther, the Uintas are of course pretty good, but don't overlook northern Arizona. The Mogollon Rim country and the White Mountains Apache Reservation have some great streams and lakes that are often overlooked but contain a lot of big brown trout.

I didn't grow up in the west originally, so my idea of "lazy kayaking" is a truly slow stream with clear water that also has a lot of volume, like pic related, which is in Missouri. You're not really going to find too much of that out in Utah, though. Small western streams tend to be high and fast in the spring (when a lot of people go whitewater kayaking/rafting), but too shallow in the summer and fall to do much boating on. Early to mid summer is probably peak season for a lot of streams, but it's still going to have a fair amount of rapids. Large western rivers tend to be really quite large and fast in the spring and summer, although definitely more manageable in the fall. A large river (for the west) will be pretty comfy to boat on in late summer, and is probably your best bet. I'm just not sure I'd call it "lazy."

>>1057045
Awesome good to know, I'll look into the boulders

>>1056974
I spend a week or two every summer in the Uintahs hunting the Lost Rhoades Mine.
Always good times.