Diamond Fork

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While Diamond Fork can be fickle it’s a tremendous stream. The only problem it rarely fishes well with dries. About a week late on the Salmonfly hatch now so until the fish key on hoppers in another 2 months forget about dries unless you want to catch a handful or less of trout under 14 inches at most. Don’t bother with streamers either for another 3 months. Fish a single large flashy weighted nymph. The flashiness helps as visibility is always 3 ft or less. It works well even with 12-18 inches of visibility. Even though you missed the Salmonfly hatch it’s important to understand their nymphs are in there all year as they have a 2 year lifecycle. A size 8 -10 tungsten beadhead Prince nymph is my go to fly all year except the few productive dry fly periods. It will also work as well as streamers prespawn with browns when the big trout are moving upstream in October. There is no question the trout feed better on nymphs on cloudy days in there. Hit a cloudy period midafternoon and it’s an absolute feeding frenzy and you’ll begin to understand it’s a very productive little stream of big trout. Admittedly I’d did occasionally get skunked for an hour or 2 and moved on to other waters. But far more common was to catch at least a dozen or two all over a foot and usually some in the 17-18 inch range. I’ve caught as many as 60 over a foot in 3 hours on cloudy days and in October I’ve caught up to 6 trout 20-27 inches in a single afternoon. If you must fish a dry and a dropper don’t even bother to show up here. If all else fails move on as while it’s more productive the the Provo per cfs there are a couple other streams even more productive nearby.
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