09-18-2010, 09:56 PM
Got out to the middle Provo this morning---hate to admit it but that was my first time on the Middle section-- won't be my last.
Got to the parking area at 6:30--still too dark to fish (for me anyway), but by 7 was on the water with enough light. I fished dries all morning--caught 3 before sunrise (about 8am), another 5 by 10. Biggest wasn't huge--caught a couple at around 14-15", a couple really small 5-6"ers and the rest in between. Had several more takes that I missed--it wasn't smoking hot fishing on top, but a few casts to a typical feeding lane would usually get a rise or two.
Fished a few different caddis patterns in tan and olive, had my best luck on a darker Wilcox's AC Caddis: http://store.wileysflies.com/wilcoxsacca...ize14.aspx
Because I've never fished it before I don't know whether the crowds were heavy or light--the parking area was very full when I left, but I fished from the parking area up stream maybe a 1/2 mile and felt I had plenty of river all to myself (until right before I left when a guy throwing a huge spinner started fishing the same hole from the other side--I caught the fish that was rising and hit the road).
Mike
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Got to the parking area at 6:30--still too dark to fish (for me anyway), but by 7 was on the water with enough light. I fished dries all morning--caught 3 before sunrise (about 8am), another 5 by 10. Biggest wasn't huge--caught a couple at around 14-15", a couple really small 5-6"ers and the rest in between. Had several more takes that I missed--it wasn't smoking hot fishing on top, but a few casts to a typical feeding lane would usually get a rise or two.
Fished a few different caddis patterns in tan and olive, had my best luck on a darker Wilcox's AC Caddis: http://store.wileysflies.com/wilcoxsacca...ize14.aspx
Because I've never fished it before I don't know whether the crowds were heavy or light--the parking area was very full when I left, but I fished from the parking area up stream maybe a 1/2 mile and felt I had plenty of river all to myself (until right before I left when a guy throwing a huge spinner started fishing the same hole from the other side--I caught the fish that was rising and hit the road).
Mike
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