Posts tagged Lower Provo River

Rudy is a die hard snowboarder and mt biker living in Park City, UT. With all this outdoor experience, it surprised me when he said he has never had the opportunity to try fly fishing, so we set it up for Friday on the MP. The water was still a little high and cold, but the fish we there and they have to eat in not so prime conditions. So we rigged up and with a short Fly Fishing and Casting lesson we were wet wading to a promising run. With in his first 20 casts Rudy was hooked up, but the acorbatic brown leaped out of the water an threw the hook. Now with the the feel of a hook up Rudy was pumped and ready. Within minutes I looked over and saw him doubled over and in a fight with a nice MP brown. This the fish hunkered down running up and down the run giving Rudy a taste of a true fly rod fight. But after a couple minutes the big fish got the best of us and shook the little hook loose. After the hole settled down we tried another promising area. Rudy once again showed that he was a quick learner and caught and landed his first fish on a fly rod. It was great to see the excitement on his face as he released the little brown. The rest of the morning we caught a couple more fish, but the bugs weren’t giving us any help and the fish were just a little lazy. But the day was a huge success as Rudy got to experience another outdoor activity and is now planning on buying a rod and reel and going after those fish that got away.

On the way home I stopped by a favorite hole on the LP. It was void of fishermen (which is rare) but full of emerger (pmd, caddis) eating fish. After a couple hrs of fishing I had landed 10+ fish and the smallest being a bow around 17 inches and the largest was a toad brown that had to be over 23 or more??? It was a great day and nice way to top of a little bit slower than normal morning.