provo river
Are There Big Fish in the Upper Provo?
Aug 31st
Fly Fishing Utah
I’ve heard many people that go fly fishing utah’s Provo River that there aren’t many big fish on the Upper Provo. The Middle and Lower always hold decent fish, but Upper Provo was mainly a small fish fishery.
Well, I beg to differ. Royce and I went up to Woodland Utah to visit his uncle on his ranch and did a little fishing. Didn’t take Royce too long to slap a big brown in the mouth with a clouser minnow. We even caught some nice Cutts and Royce landed a slab of a whitefish!
Here are some pics and Vid of that tasty Brown!
ENJOY!
Should have been on the Beaverhead but the Provo will do.
May 22nd
I was planning on going to Missoula for work this weekend and on the way I was going to fish the Beaverhead but I stayed home to attend some important family activities. I figured I needed to get on the water to try and make up for not hitting Montana waters. I decided to do a little video on the Provo River because I haven’t done one for a while. The water was clear and the flows were nice and fish were everywhere. One of these times I am going to bring a few cameras and do a true survivorman video so I can actually show myself catching fish.
Enjoy!!
First fish on a fly
Apr 4th
I had the honor this past week to take on the Provo River a young man from Missoula Montana. My business partner Matt had his younger brother Blake came down to Utah for spring break to spend time with family and one of things that he wanted to do was go fly fishing. He had been fly fishing once before but had never caught a fish. On Thursday we headed up the lower Provo around 11ish hoping to hit the BWO hatch just as it started. The weather was crazy that day, it was very bad down in the valley and the canyon but we went to one of favorite spots that is sheltered from most wind and weather. As we approached the stretch of river we were pumped cause we could see from a distance fish rising.
I have taken many people fishing for the first time and dry fly fishing, in my opinion, is harder for someone to learn than nymph fishing. I was a bit concerned that we would have a tough time hooking some rising fish but knew we could always fall back on throwing on a nymph to make sure we landed some fish.
As we got in the water and rigged up not 5 minutes into casting this new fisherman had his first fish take the fly we presented. It is so satisfying to see the first fish on a fly caught by anybody and even more special to hear them say “this is my new favorite thing to do”.
Welcome to fly fishing Blake!!
BWO’s and Midges
Mar 9th
Last Saturday I was feeling good enough so I gathered up the troops and headed up to the lower Provo River. I had heard from The “Dr” that there had been some amazing hatches during the week and it would most likely be the same on Saturday. I tied up some BWO’s and Midges the night before and had everything ready to head out early in the morning. I didn’t really sleep the whole night due to the fact I hadn’t been fishing for a couple months because I had hurt my back. It is funny how excited I was to fish a river I have fished my whole life and well over a few thousand times but that is how it is when you can’t get out and wet a line knowing the fishing is awesome.
We had an interesting day with cold weather in the morning overcast at about noon and then a feeding frenzy at about 1:30. Midges and BWO’s were hatching at the same time and river was boiling. We all landed many fish and left the river exhausted.
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