04-02-2015, 01:47 AM
I live about 15 minutes from the mouth of the canyon and spend a fair amount of time up there, especially this time of year. My 1st piece of advice would be to wait for a grey, cloudy day and fish the blue wing olive hatch. There are usually a couple of different sizes hatching at the same time, ( like maybe a 16 and a 22) and I typically do pretty well splitting the difference, say with a size 18 or 20. (don't like fishing the really small stuff anyway) Everybody has their favorite pattern; I tend to tie my own and I really like small olive parachutes with a quill or biot body. Not sure if you can buy them....or RS2 type emerger patterns can be good too. Most important thing is a good drift; you cannot cast up and over provo river fish and expect to do well. If you can get a long side-downstream drift, that can help.
Why a grey cloudy day? the bluewings are grey/slate/blue, and come off the best when the ceiling is low and the same color, most likely for camoflouge reasons; the best fishing I've had up there time after time is in a driving rain or snowstorm....enjoy, when the hatch is on, you can be almost anywhere in the canyon and find fish.
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Why a grey cloudy day? the bluewings are grey/slate/blue, and come off the best when the ceiling is low and the same color, most likely for camoflouge reasons; the best fishing I've had up there time after time is in a driving rain or snowstorm....enjoy, when the hatch is on, you can be almost anywhere in the canyon and find fish.
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