Sevier River 4/2 & 3

[Mc_Lennon]

My family and I got down on the sevier river(finally). We fished an undisclosed section of river. Sorry folks. There were just too many nice browns and too few fishermen to share the exact location. I started out chucking a #2 blue fox in a brown trout patern. That first morning I nailed 13 browns, the biggest going 17". We went below piute for the afternoon. There was absolutly NO water coming out of the dam. A few trout were stacked up in the pools and I caught 1 of them. It was a 14" rainbow. I'll tell you what, if those were the fish stocked last year then next year Piute's going to have some monsters! By the way, also, it looked like Piute was over 50% full. That was a B-E-A-utiful sight! With so few fish in those pools we went down stream into some farm stream areas. My uncle rolled a bonified 15# brown. I never figured there were THAT big of fish in there. I did have fun in that section snagging carp. Mark my words the next carp record WILL come out of the sevier. One carp I and measured went 35" long. And he was one of the medium ones in that particular hole. Later that evening and into the night I fished outside our cabin later that night and caught another 5 browns on a floating rapala. None were over 14".
The next morning we fished back down the river and caught a bunch more browns. I got 15, all on the #2 blue fox again. My biggest of the trip wound up being a 20" beauty brown with a hook jaw. Just 6 more inches and he'd be headed for the wall right now. Instead he's swimming right now.
All in all it was a darned good trip. I want to get back down there and fish that river really soon.
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[hedgesd]

I've fished that area your not mentioning a couple times this year. Just wait til summer and you'll see lots of people fishing that section. I guess thats the trouble with the sevier is it only has small sections with fish.
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[wormandbobber]

I also fished the Sevier on the 2nd and 3rd...I knocked the crap out of them with my fly rod. I witnessed the best hatch of bugs I have ever seen on the Sevier; the fishing was excellent for browns up to 18 inches. But, the flows will change very soon...as soon as they start releasing water from Piute, the fishing will pretty much be over until they shut it off again.

Hedges, I am not sure what you are talking about when you say that only small sections of the Sevier hold fish...there are good numbers of fish from Otter Creek to Piute, from Black Canyon to Otter Creek, and the entire length of Marysvale Canyon...not to mention the upper Sevier around Hatch. That is a lot of stream.
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[Mc_Lennon]

I was kind of hoping there wouldn't be too many folks fishing it. Oh well. I can always hole hog them. I don't have a problem with that![sly]
I wish I could just find another couple miles of stream to fish down there. Its just too far to go for a single canyon. I guess that farm land above marysvale will be good enough come june.
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[hedgesd]

Well the only place you mentioned on the Sevier was Marysville canyon. All the other places are East Fork and above Hatch is mainly Asay Creek.
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[hedgesd]

Come June the flows will be huge and almost impossible to fish with out tons of weight and some luck. Sevier isn't famous for it's crystal clear water.
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