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With the day off I decided to go to the M.P. to chuck some meat at some pre - spawn browns. Didn't get a thing. So I left.

I was thinking about the Cutts at Little Dell and Bells Canyon but decided on the Uintas. Not in the proper hiking gear (shorts and converses) for the weather I opted to stay at Trial. Started out nymphing with some size 12 Princes. Caught about 6 doing that before I got the itch to try a Beach Popper. Great itch! I casted and casted with just follows. I was debating whether or not to change flies when a tiger came up and inhaled my fly. Scared the s*** out of me! I was fighting him with only glimpses of him and I nearly crapped myself when I seen his actual size. I landed him and taped him. 17"! That's my biggest from Trial (Not the Uintas, that prize goes to a 20" tiger!) I ended the day with 30 fish...mostly rainbows. Gotta the love the Uintas, never know what you're going to get.
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Sweet job man []
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Nicely done!
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That sure is a brute for trial!
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Nice tiger trout. I caught several like that on the south end of Pass lake as well as 1 on Trial about this time 2 years ago. Tried again last fall same spots and nothing of any size but I recall getting snowed on. Now I'll fess up, I was using a Jake's spin a lure not a fly[shocked][laugh].
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Wow!
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Thanks for all the compliments folks. Hopefully this little front coming in won't dump too much (hopefully none at all []) snow and I'll be going back up and visit some of those tigers that reach 20"+! Does nobody have any tips on where to fish the Upper Provo? Is it good down in Slate Gorge?

P.S. Here's a pic of the fly. It's a Miyawaki Beach Popper created by Leland Miyawaki in Washington for coho, sea run cutthroats and other salmon species. I've only fished it here and the tigers just love it.
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If I was going to fish the upper Provo now I'd hit the half mile to mile below the turn off to the Soapstone Basin. The other spot I'd try would be starting below where the North Fork of the Provo comes in, work my way up past it and fishing the mouth of the tributary itself.
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