Dime Project

For this project we each had to flip a dime on a map of Utah County. The size of the dime is roughly one square mile. Wherever our dime landed was where we had to go and find a story to shoot. My dime ended up on the other side of the shore of Utah lake just outside of Saratoga Springs. 

I drove out there with my husband and brother in law, hoping that the empty field I saw on google maps was just an old photo that had yet to be updated. Upon arriving to my spot, I found that there was what appeared to be nothing. We found a road that led down to the lake and followed it. At the end of the road we came across the skeletons of some soon to be houses. Thinking this is what I would have to do my story on, we looked for a place to pull over. To our [pleasant] surprise we found a little park that had docks leading out onto the frozen lake. That was when I first met Scott Wilkins. He was sitting in an old lawn chair right in the middle of the miniature bay ice fishing. I quickly gathered my gear and walked down the frozen landscape to talk to him.

Scott has been ice fishing for years, but this was his first try on Utah Lake. He recently moved to Saratoga Springs and thought he'd give it a go. [Although he didn't catch anything while I was there - despite baiting a second hook to attach to his line] The ice was about 3 feet deep, Scott's ice drill lay to the side of him while he chilled his Orange pop in the snow. Scott reckons that the area we were standing was only 7 or 8 feet deep to begin with. We got to talking and I found out that he is also a UVU student. He takes evening classes in the welding department. Fishing and welding are his favorite things, besides the Broncos, [which he is very excited to see them win in the Superbowl] 

"I just love being outside fishing. It's very relaxing, all you gotta do is drop your line and wait. While you're waiting it's a nice, quiet place to think about things that have been on your mind."