Provo River 7-25-2011

I had the day off Monday for the holiday and Linda had to work, so I decided to go up on the Middle Provo to see how the Green Drake hatch was progressing. During the day there were a few drakes on the water and in the air, but no hatch of significance ever occurred. The water was still high, and a little cool for wet wading, but running fairly clear.

The Green Drake is the largest mayfly to hatch on the river.

I didn't have any fly patterns to match the adult, so I used the closest pattern I had, a green drake emerger. It was able to fool several fish, but the best pattern was a flying ant imitation.

This brown trout took the emerger.

All I caught were brown trout, kind of a blah name for a fish that can be so colorful.

This picture and the next two are of a fish with a double chin, odd looking.

Notice the flying ant it rose to eat.

It was a nice day, partly cloudy, fish rising occasionally, a few bugs on the water. For a while I just sat on the bank watching a single drake in flight until a starling swooped in and ate it.

Provo River 8-12-2010

Linda and I arrived at our camp site in the Soapstone campground in the afternoon on Thursday, the day before the kids would start arriving with their families. After getting camp set up Linda kicked back to read a book and I waded up the river behind camp throwing a hopper and dropper rig.














I fished for a couple hours, enjoying the clear cool water, and caught one Brown, a few Rainbows and some Brookies.














On Friday the girls started showing up with their families and I waded up the river with Dusty while he fished. He had a good time catching Brookies and Rainbows.

















Sam came up after work on Friday and fished Beaver Creek on Saturday, I didn’t go with him, so no pictures, but he caught some Cuttroats.