08-26-2015, 05:57 PM
I spent this morning on the lower Provo seeing if I could tempt some browns to bite.
Got a few bites drifting an olive woolly bugger under a bubble, but didn't land anything. Regardless, it felt nice outside, the air was clean, and it was a perfect way to spend a morning.
On the way back, I decided to post this question and see if I could get help with some of the issues I was running into today.
The water levels are fairly high, presumably because they are sending all the water from the reservoirs downstream for irrigation reasons. Even though the water was high though, there was SO much moss. The majority of the stretch I fished seemed to have more moss than water...
I gave up on my spinners after like 30 minutes, because I was just dragging salad around on every single cast. That's when I switched to the woolly bugger under a bubble. That fared a bit better, as I left it unweighted and it just kinda drifted just under the surface, above the moss. But I didn't think I could successfully fish any kind of microjig (i.e. a trout magnet) without just immediately burying it in the moss and completely shutting down any chance of a bite.
What do you guys do when there's that much moss on the river?
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Got a few bites drifting an olive woolly bugger under a bubble, but didn't land anything. Regardless, it felt nice outside, the air was clean, and it was a perfect way to spend a morning.
On the way back, I decided to post this question and see if I could get help with some of the issues I was running into today.
The water levels are fairly high, presumably because they are sending all the water from the reservoirs downstream for irrigation reasons. Even though the water was high though, there was SO much moss. The majority of the stretch I fished seemed to have more moss than water...
I gave up on my spinners after like 30 minutes, because I was just dragging salad around on every single cast. That's when I switched to the woolly bugger under a bubble. That fared a bit better, as I left it unweighted and it just kinda drifted just under the surface, above the moss. But I didn't think I could successfully fish any kind of microjig (i.e. a trout magnet) without just immediately burying it in the moss and completely shutting down any chance of a bite.
What do you guys do when there's that much moss on the river?
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