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Hit the middle below Midway, water is still way up, what's going on with the flows this year? Water still off color. Coaxed a few to the net, caught a couple on streamers and the rest nymphing, couldn't raise anything on top. Best bugs were PT Emerger, Barr Emerger and Green Serendipity. A few caddis came off as well as some mayflies but the fish just didn't want to take anything on the surface.
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My buddy hit the middle provo last night and said there was a great hatch about 30 min before dark and they caught a ton on top. Some big Browns too.
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Got out to the middle Provo this morning---hate to admit it but that was my first time on the Middle section-- won't be my last.

Got to the parking area at 6:30--still too dark to fish (for me anyway), but by 7 was on the water with enough light. I fished dries all morning--caught 3 before sunrise (about 8am), another 5 by 10. Biggest wasn't huge--caught a couple at around 14-15", a couple really small 5-6"ers and the rest in between. Had several more takes that I missed--it wasn't smoking hot fishing on top, but a few casts to a typical feeding lane would usually get a rise or two.

Fished a few different caddis patterns in tan and olive, had my best luck on a darker Wilcox's AC Caddis: http://store.wileysflies.com/wilcoxsacca...ize14.aspx

Because I've never fished it before I don't know whether the crowds were heavy or light--the parking area was very full when I left, but I fished from the parking area up stream maybe a 1/2 mile and felt I had plenty of river all to myself (until right before I left when a guy throwing a huge spinner started fishing the same hole from the other side--I caught the fish that was rising and hit the road).

Mike
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