Posts tagged provo river
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.
Long Time Coming
Jan 26th
Last week I went fishing with the person that first got me into fly fishing.
While I was on a family vacation in Yellowstone my Uncle Daren took me to the upper Firehole River, gave me a caddis fly, told me where to cast and said cast in that hole there are tons of brook trout. 8 fish later I was the happiest kid around. After that day I knew that fly fishing was it. Even though I really didn’t get neck deep in fly fishing till I was in high school if it wasn’t for that day on the Firehole River I would have never been involved in the best sport known to man.
Daren and I on Saturday hit the Middle Provo River and had a wonderful day. Again, like ever day I am sure, midges were hatching and we were landing fish.
Like most of you know my dad past away a few years ago from cancer. My dad was one of my heroes and best friends. Daren my Dad and I would fish quite often together and going out with Daren we instantly were in discussion about my Dad and the memories we had together of him fishing, Daren even shared with me stories of the two of them that I hadn’t before heard. I can’t even remember that last time we fished together but this last week was tons of fun and was a long time coming.
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New Years Day on the Provo
Jan 7th
We had our annual New Year’s Day fishing outing to the Provo River. It was a perfect day with almost no clouds and temps around 39 degrees. In years past we have hit the lower Provo but this year we decided to go to the Middle. We got to the river at about 9ish and caught a few nymphing. I could immediately tell that we were going to see some midges hatching soon so I switched over to a orange asher griffiths gnat with a small emerger midge as a dropper. I was able to land a few with that setup but switched back and forth from nymphs to drys until about 12 when the fish started going crazy. I didn’t as many pics or video as I wanted because I was so focused on trying to catch fish.
There is no doubt that midge hatches on the Middle Provo are my favorite dry fly action.
I was able to use my new rod from Scandalous Sticks.
One Hour on the Provo River
Nov 26th
I hadn’t been up on the Provo River for while and a few days ago in the afternoon I ended up talking to the “Dr” and we both wanted to go fish but we only had an hour or so. An hour is plenty of time, right?
I took some video of our very short outing. I was inspired by the VIDEOGRASS video from the Weber River that we put up a few days ago so I did a bit of editing. Enjoy!!
