I've worked just a few blocks from the Provo river for a number of years and always wondered how the fishing was. This is between 500 West and University Parkway in Provo. I've seen a few anglers every once in a blue moon but this is during the week and I imagine it would get more pressure on the weekend. Anyway I'm wondering if anyone has any tips if I decide to wet some line during one of my lunch breaks.
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I used to fish it often on my lunch hour. I am just upstream from the area you mention. Summertime flows are a problem because the river gets so low. Still, there can be good fishing for small brown trout at times. Work the deeper runs with the same nymphs or dry flies that work farther up the river. Baits will work, but not as consistently as the flies.
After whirling disease, the DWR stopped stocking rainbows in most rivers and streams. The river through town used to get a lot more fishing pressure when it was stocked. Now very few bother.
With the emphasis on urban fishing, it would seem to make sense to start stocking areas like the lower Provo again. It used to attract lots of young anglers who lived close.
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There aren't as many trout as there used to be inside of Provo but the river is springing back from the fish kill that happened with the last major drought. I used to live in Orem and I fished that river every day when I lived there. There are plenty of trout there and it's just a matter of how good you are with flies and lures to discover the potential of the in town stretch. The largest brown I have ever seen landed from that river was caught by a fly-fisherman using a Prince Nymph in the pool behind the LDS picture studio. It looked to be about 28 inches long and had a big hooked jaw and was round like a torpedo. Practice catch and release because the in town stretch is still recovering and there are a lot of people worm chucking down there that keep everything they catch.
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No offense or anything meant, but...
If you are right there and see it all the time and wonder how the fishing is...
why not take a couple of hours and try it out for yourself and see what happens?
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