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New guy here. I have visited this site for awhile and decided to register. I doubt I will add much to the board (I'll probably never become a fish), but you never know.
I fished the Lower Provo River yesterday for two hours and it was hot. Surface action and nymphing (griffiths gnats and hares ears). The warmer weather has turned things up a bit.
I have ice fished several times this year and want to put in a plug for Jordanelle, on the Hailstone side. The perch fishing is fast, and it really needs a bunch of fisherpeople over there to thin the herd.
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Nice report.
What part of the provo? I had some people on the middle section tha had a tough time catching them yesturday.
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Where on the lower were you fishing? Were you just using hare's ears or was anyhting else working?
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I was fishing the stretch in Provo Canyon just downstream from the highway tunnels. The first thing I tied on was a size 18 hares ear, trailed by a size 22 midge pupae or sow bug. I caught fish right away so I never changed my nymphs, and I seemed to hook equal numbers on both flies. When I saw fish rising, I put on a size 22 griffiths gnat and that also did the trick.
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Welcome to the site . I use to hang out at Hoover hole to Fish hatchery hole every weekend in the winter on the lower section . Need to get up there I haven't fly fished much in the last 10 years . Griffith gnats are great . I also did good this time of year with real small elk hair caddis in a size 22 .A size 20 Red worm nymph I tied up worked great some days too . My favorite way to fish is to nymph fish up there .
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HFT, I need some lessons in patience while fly fishing.
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FFM, I think patience is one of the least important things with fly fishing,in fact it may get in the way of success. This being such a technical sport and trying to zero in on the perfect rigging requires constant adjusting,weights,leader length,fly patterns etc. so I say impatience is a virtue. If not catching fish we are doing something wrong, Fix it, no luck envolved.
Patients is a virtue when dealing with tangles,knot tying and trees.
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