Six days on the middle Provo.

[flyster]

I was going to take my vacation up in Colorado on the Yampa River and Stag coach tail water but I decided to hit the middle Provo River this past week. I fished this river last Thanksgiving and had blast fishing with midge patterns. I wanted to see how summer time fishing would be. The best fishing would be on the upper portion of the river with more and larger fish. The river was running at 350 cfs and at that rate one can with care cross the river at curtain wide points. Early week fishing seemed to have a lot less fishing pressure with Thursday and Friday access river parking lots were just about full on the upper sections. It is kind of deceiving when you see the parking lots with a lot of cars but most fishers stay pretty close to the parking lots. If you just walk along the well maintained river trails for a half mile or so you will find you have the river for yourself. Now for the fishing, you can find yourself a nice deep hole and park there use nymphs and catch fish for hours from 10” to 20” (that’s what I did the first day) or you can put a big “O” stimi size 8 to 10 fish up or down river hitting the banks and pocket water for the most fun I have had in years using a dry for big fish. I had to work hard for the fish I landed. I was just out gunned fishing in the faster waters and had to go with up to 4X tippet just to keep from breaking me off in the swift currants. One typical evening session I had 17 rises to my fly and could only land 2!!!
I bought my wife a fishing permit without her consent and was forced to fish with me a few days. I parked her on one of the deeper holes with a mutant pheasant tail and a cream midge nymph. Well to make a long story short she did out fish me and lost some monster browns. Here are a few pics.

[lucfish]

Looks like a real nice vacation. Haven't fished the Provo myself in about 20 years. It was good then looks like it's just as good now.

[Benny]

That's a nice six days.

[fflutterffly]

Kick butt Mama! Tell her that's her new name! Great shots.

[DubL HauL]

Outstanding Flyster but I feel for your wife. Was wondering why I haven't seen any local stream reports wondering how the action is.

Andy

[WanderingBlues]

Aw man, if I could get my wife fishing , I'd be a happy man. Then again, she'd know how much I was actually spending........ Great pictures and a fun report.

[1mocast]

Looks like a great time with the spouse!

[Sasha]

Aw man, if I could get my wife fishing , I'd be a happy man. Then again, she'd know how much I was actually spending........ Great pictures and a fun report.

This!!!






@flyster: Great report; looks like the perfect way to spend some quality time.