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Provo Pigs - LOAH - 02-16-2009 The recent snowfall convinced me to keep it local this weekend and I decided to try a spot on the Provo that I'd never fished before. The special regs section of the Lower Provo always seems to have a lot of pressure and today I decided to go and see why. After parking at the first pull-off upstream from the tunnels, I grabbed my spinning rod and worked a blue fox for about 45 minutes. Within a few casts, I had something thrashing at the end of my line. It put up a nice fight for a few seconds before it threw the hook. Pity I couldn't get a better look at it. Another couple of minutes passed and I got nice brown of about 17 or 18 inches into my hand for a moment. It slipped away before I get my camera out, but it was nice to hold. I got a smaller one a little while later that didn't get away though. Not until I released it anyway. The action slowed down for the next while, but I noticed several snouts slurping up some tiny bugs. I went back to the car and grabbed my fly rod, rigged with a griffiths gnat. Despite my best efforts though, the fish wouldn't even look at it. Eventually, I scared them off with some bad casts. Perhaps more visits to this part of the river are needed. It was fun to fish, but I felt like visiting another spot on the river to search for active bruisers. When I pulled up to the parking area, I noticed some other vehicles and hoped they weren't fishing where I intended to go. Luckily, they appeared to have gone the the other direction. Well, the first few holes I tried looked pretty good, but showed no signs of life. About 100 feet upstream, I noticed some bushes hanging down into the water. My cast went right where I wanted it and the olive cone headed bugger drifted down. Stripping slowly, I dredged the bottom and a mess of fish darted out for it. All of them missed and I set the hook to nothing. I saw at least two nice fish in the mix and the rest looked to be around 13 inches or so. I repeated my first cast and was able to coax a second frenzy. This time, I connected with the hog. What a fight! This guy took me on a hard run toward some clutter to wrap me up in and all I could do was try to "guide the bullet". He got into some branches and I thought it was over, but I managed to play him back out and eventually into my waiting hand. What a chunk! So far, my best river battle to date and it was my personal best brown at 20 inches and stout. Knowing about the other fish by the bush, I tried my luck again. I couldn't believe it when I saw another big boy come out and grab my bugger. Just like his buddy, this one took me for a ride into the twigs and I was lucky enough to get him out and onto the bank. He was almost the same size as the first hog and had a lot of color. Gorgeous fish. Again, there were more fish under the bush and I seemed to have their magic fly. I got a smaller one with the first cast and missed another big one on the second, before they stopped chasing. Talk about a productive hole! Venturing further upstream didn't produce anything and I was already beaming with the nice hookups of the day, so I called it quits and went home very satisfied. Happy Fishing, Humans. [signature] Re: [LOAH] Provo Pigs - Bountyhunter - 02-16-2009 Great report and nice fish! Thanks for sharing. [signature] Re: [LOAH] Provo Pigs - mactuna - 02-16-2009 Very nice fish [signature] Re: [LOAH] Provo Pigs - FOD - 02-16-2009 Heck yea man. I almost went out their today also, my ice fishing this year is the pitts!! We seem to share the same types of fishing habits. Those anglers who are closed minded to spinners are missing all the fun and games while starring at their motionless flies. I am a fly fisherman too but I grew up fishing those blue fox spinners they are a very confident go to lure to find big fish in streams that get a lot of fly fishing pressure(provo,weber you know) I love to double fist with a fly rod and a spinning rod rigged up with an all silver or a cutthroat pattern #1 or 2. I cover miles of river bottoms fishing that way. that is a great report thanks. [signature] Re: [LOAH] Provo Pigs - fsh4fun05 - 02-16-2009 Perfect. I love the report! I spent my day cleaning my house and watching movies but after reading your report I feel that I 'got my fix' LOL! Those are some pretty browns, I might have to stop by the Provo next weekend on my road trip. [signature] Re: [LOAH] Provo Pigs - lavaman - 02-16-2009 Great post and Great Pics like always! [signature] Re: [LOAH] Provo Pigs - spoondog - 02-17-2009 Congrats on the nice fish. [signature] Re: [LOAH] Provo Pigs - zman1 - 02-17-2009 Dont any of you have jobs!!! I spent the day getting yelled at by my boss for crap that didnt even have anything to do with me,shouldhave met ya'll on the river it would have been a better day lol great report,havent fished the provo mutch where can you throw spinners ,I thought it was fly fishing only on most of that stream [signature] Re: [zman1] Provo Pigs - LOAH - 02-17-2009 You can throw spinners anywhere you like on the Provo. You can even use bait in a couple of sections. The specially regulated sections are artificials and flies only, so spinners are okay. [signature]