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Provo river
So I find myself just outside Salt Lake City with a Saturday free.
Google gives me a couple of flyshop listings close by, one called Anglers Inn also with a shop in Orem. I can't leave until after 9am, I call the shops as I drive in -- one closed and the two Anglers Inn are out of business. I was hoping to find a tip on smaller less-crowded water, but with no info I'll have to go with what I found on the web, the Provo river. Oh well, there must be a flyshop somewhere on the main road up to and up the Provo -- but no luck at all! I end up buying a license in KMart in Orem, driving up the Provo to Heber City, not seeing any flyshop up there so driving back down to the lower Provo (the Web said the middle Provo, while looking better for flyfishing, has lots of private land; without a map, I'll just stick to the lower). It's about 11:30 by the time I start fishing, and I need to stop about 3:30. Not much structure down the middle where I am, and the river is flowing pretty good, so I start fishing the little pockets up the bank. A dink hits and flops off at my feet, then in a nice little bank hole a fine 16-17" brown hits my brown san juan worm, fights hard and comes to hand. Cool! I find a slighty wide spot in the river, and wade across, angling downstream in the strong current. There's an island on the other side with some interesting water around it. A few more dinks and I work my way to this nice flat along the island, and as I get closer there's some nice fish in _very_ shallow water, lined up feeding. I pop the split shot off my rig -- still what I started with, a brown san juan worm with a #20 pheasant tail -- and sight fish. Spooked the first but eventually got to watch the second inhale the pheasant tail. Another nice brown, about a twin to the first. He fought hard, even jumped once. Landed and released (when fishing alone and releasing, I generally don't take pictures, just get the fish back in. Sorry!). I worked down the far bank, caught and missed a few dinks, then worked back up to the flat. This time I rigged up a hopper with the pheasant tail dropper. I fished a couple of the fish on the flat, but maybe they were still a bit shy from when I fished through earlier, because none of the nicer ones would take. At the very top of the island there was a nice little hole into a cutbank. On about my second drift through there, I watch a nice brown come up and hit my dropper. Another nice fighter, and again about a twin to the first two. I fish a bit more but time is running out. I work my way up to the wide spot, wade across again, and walk back to the car. Nice fishing. The downside of it was the road noise -- I can't believe the traffic up and down that canyon all day long! -- and the huge hatch of tubers and rafters. It wasn't too bad until about 2pm, then it just got a bit crazy. I was a bit isolated from the main current around the island, but the rest of the river got to be unfishable with all the tubers. Oh well, the best trout of my year so far (my third day fishing this year). Jon. |
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