Met up with FFL this morning in the rain and cold, river was a little cloudy most likely due to rainfall, there are a few Brown's starting to stack up on the Redd's, I would say another week or two before it really gets going. Still a lot of weeds which made for some tough nymphing, switched over to a bugger and that was the ticket, mostly smaller fish but they were aggressive, FFL headed to the Middle and I finished on the Lower.
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So did you use a sink tip with your bugger or did you use a floating? The only time I can catch anything on buggers on the Provo is in the winter. White always works for me.
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Just floating, water is fairly shallow.
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It was sure nice tagging along with you for 4 hrs till I decided to see how the middle would be and it sure sucked for us seeing those big browns on our line getting off. Just a few picture of the pretty browns and ugly spawning bows [laugh].
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Here's a picture of that weird stuff on this poor brownie. Does anyone know what it is even??? Seen it a few times in the past year but I sure didn't catch that ugly brown on my fly rod. Just grabbed it with my net took a picture of it then put him in the deeper pool so he can swim away.
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The ugly bow award goes to this unlucky bow [laugh].
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I also hit deer creek between 5pm-7pm. Fishing pretty sucked over there. I use type 2 and 6 sinking line in 20-40 ft but not a single bite. Saw a few perch hiding in 20' and 35-38' of water. Caught only a few none stock bows with no missing fins surprisingly and they were 12-13" in 3-6' of water other then that not a single nibble out in the deeper area. Even a few yaker's even said they only caught small bows like I did.
Hope too see you out on the waters again remo and thanks for the spare fly line I really needed it especially today my fingers from my fly line started cutting me up pretty good [
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I hit the Lower today as well. I had a nice BWO hatch right when I arrived that lasted forever. I caught a bunch on a size 18 dry fly. I think whatever was hatching was a little smaller, but the fish did not seem to mind. No pictures though. It was too cold to worry about that nonsense.
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Take pics next time! I know where you work, Orvis dork [
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I saw some big hatch of floating flies on the water on the middle but barely any bow's bothered to rise. Only a few were rising.
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[quote Flyfishinglover]
Here's a picture of that weird stuff on this poor brownie. Does anyone know what it is even??? Seen it a few times in the past year but I sure didn't catch that ugly brown on my fly rod.[/quote]
That is an example of a fish affected with fungus as a result of its spawning activities. In a couple of weeks, you will find one of those dying fish in nearly every run on the middle or the LoPro. Just natures way of thinning the herd.
Here is more info on it.
http://wildlife.utah.gov/fes/fungused_brown_trout.php
Thanks for the report. I'm debating whether to hit the LoPro or Strawberry tomorrow. Ahhh, decisions.
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Hit the middle provo today above DC. Fly rods broken so i spin fished. I saw a few fish with spots looking sick. One big boy. Ended up landing 4 "ugly" bows and 4 browns in a few hours ,between 4 of us. Saw a lot of fish, mostly small, rising to what looked to be a good bwo hatch mid day, in the 20-22 size range. Also saw a couple dead mudlers. One was 4-5", the other maybe 1.
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Thanks for the link and info [
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I couldn't psych myself up to freeze my toes off in my float tube at Strawberry, so the LoPro it was today. It wasn't incredible, but the fish did give some love this afternoon.
A couple of pics.
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Sweet! Nice Bow'
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That's one nice looking bow comparing to my ugly monsters [laugh]
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[quote doggonefishin][quote Flyfishinglover]
Here's a picture of that weird stuff on this poor brownie. Does anyone know what it is even??? Seen it a few times in the past year but I sure didn't catch that ugly brown on my fly rod.[/quote]
That is an example of a fish affected with fungus as a result of its spawning activities. In a couple of weeks, you will find one of those dying fish in nearly every run on the middle or the LoPro. Just natures way of thinning the herd.
Here is more info on it.
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Thanks for the report. I'm debating whether to hit the LoPro or Strawberry tomorrow. Ahhh, decisions.[/quote]
And other STRESS related situations. So being caught and handled has been thought to cause this as well.
Strawberry or LoPro, no brainer for me. Nothing like the pull of a Rainbow on open water. Plus it is on a clock. As long as I can launch that is my first choice.
Nice fishies guys.
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Strawberry or LoPro, no brainber for me. Nothing like the pull of a Rainbow on open water. Plus it is on a clock. As long as I can launch that is my first choice.
Nice fishies guys.[/quote]
I know what you mean. Strawberry was tempting. I think I'm getting soft in my old age however, so I slept in, did some work around the house, and went with the LoPro. Those chunky bows were a decent consolation prize.
As for "spawning syndrome", certainly rough handling can have an effect, but since an overwhelming majority of cases in brown trout occur during the autumn, post spawn, spawning activity is identified as the main cause for it, as the DWR link indicates.
Nevertheless, a little extra TLC on a bigger autumn caught brown certainly could help it avoid a fungus infection later on.
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