UPPER PROVO QUESTION

[aloneone]

So from what i have been told by several of the campground hosts in the mirror lake highway area is that the provo rivers water level fluctuates throughout the summer. i know for certain that it is the highest in early spring with all the snow melt and what not. but does it really increase and decrease in water level through the summer months? i was under the impression that it got lower and lower until it is reduced to a stream at best. i ask this because it is one of my favorite places to fish when my family and i go camping since it is close to the campground that we like to stay at.
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[Flyfishinglover]

It will just keep getting smaller until there's not much water to dump from trial lake.
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[riverdog]

It goes up with rain[]. However there's always somewhere fishable along the highway. Too little upstream to support fish go downstream until it's OK with other water coming in. If flows are low way down by Lower Provo Campground try the channel of river that flows parallel several hundred yards away. If still too little water move up within about and half mile to where the North Fork of the Provo flows in. The far channel there was a significant amount of irrigation water taken out away from the highway. Fishing above this and you almost always have enough to hold fish.
Throw big flies especially hoppers so you don't hook ( and launch) too many stunted brookies compered to descent fish.
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[aloneone]

ok thanks guys good info, i just wanted to clear that up!
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[Jazzperch1]

The flows are always a little different each year but still hold fish, ive got brookies, bows, whitefish and grayling pretty high up the highway.
Always a good bet to try it out if your in the area, even if they are small fish.

the flows can fluctuate but its not much if any when it does
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[aloneone]

are there stretches of the river where the water tends to flow higher more consistently?
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