Provo River Today

[grunttwice]

I hit the Lower Provo today and had some great success. I usually fish the blue ribbon section up near the dam, but today I decided to try new water. I parked at Nunn's Park and walked up the trail until I found a suitable location. I ended up finding a nice piece of water a little way's above Bridal Veil Falls. I walked down to the water, watched for a minute, and decided on a nymphing rig with a sow bug and zebra midge. No sooner had I set this up than the river started to boil with rising fish. (Of course) I assumed midges were hatching because I couldn't quite see what the fish were eating, and so I put my smallest midge dry on... and lost it in the tree behind me on my first back cast. I put my only other tiny midge on, cast out, and it was immediately swallowed by a hungry trout. I set the hook and.... my knot came loose and I reeled in empty tippet.


Cursing myself for being an amateur, I tied on a size 18 parachute adams and a size 22 jujubaetis dropper. I applied floatant across the tippet all the way to my dropper hoping it would ride just under the surface. I had great fishing for the next hour or so. I got about a dozen fish, most on the dry, but I got some on the dropper. I suspect that my dropper may have been bitten several times without me detecting it as two of the fish I caught on it were hooked as I was attempting pull my line in to cast again. Most fish were around 14 inches, but I could see some real hogs rising down there. I was never able to get to the big ones because I was casting into the wind and whenever I would walk close enough they would scare off. I guess they didn't get big by being stupid.


Anyways, it was a great day fishing. I'm glad I tried somewhere new out, and the best part about fishing that low is that there was not another angler in sight. Hopefully someone can benefit from my report. :-)
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[humpy]

Nice report, thanks. Your first paragraph reminds me of most of m days on that river.
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[gofish435]

Thanks for the report and pictures. We have all caught our share of tree trout.[]

It nice to see a shot of the river without a dozen anglers in the picture.
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[Lech456]

Thanks for the report, I am glad that you got rewarded for looking at new water! Don't worry about the mishaps. You can take solace in the fact that you are making most of the rest of us feel better about our own crap. I hit the Weber on Friday. I threw my tandem nymph rig into a promising run and almost immediately I saw my indicator dip and I set the hook. Snag city. I gave it a couple tugs to try and break it loose at which point my zebra midge gave way and launched my rig out of the water and directly into the trees behind me. Half hour on the water and I have a total of one cast and half a drift complete. I always seem to have at LEAST one or two of these every time I go.
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[FishSlayerJT]

thats exactly why i take breaks from fly fishing. It can get frustrating real quick.... thanks for the report.. ill be back out there and have some reports as soon as i get new waders
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