08-28-2015, 04:07 AM
There is absolutely nothing wrong with fishing with Rapalas or spinners there and if you are an inexperienced fly angler, you will no doubt do much better with those on the Lower Provo than you would fly fishing. I flyfish a lot but still will bust out gear and fish streams with gear and spinners on occasion. Its a simple pleasure. [angelic]
However, if you want to catch fish on the fly on the LoPro, you might want to look into learning the "Provo river bounce rig" when the river is weedy, which is basically right now into December. This rig puts the weight in the weeds and the flies are drifted above the weight and out of the weeds. The flies thus foul up with those mossy weeds a great deal less than standard rigs and are thus more available to be inspected by the fish. If you have bassin experience, think of it as dropshot flyfishing.
Here are some links. (Google has a bunch of additional references if you need more)
http://www.vailvalleyanglers.com/blog/ot...bounce-rig
http://www.flyfisherman.com/featured/bounce-nymphing/
http://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/Utah_...__P892368/
As for flies, I frequently use sow bugs, hares ear nymphs, certain emergers, egg/globug patterns in the fall and San Juan worms in the spring or after rain. The problem with the Provo is that those fish get so much pressure, they have seen it all and sometimes you have to match what they are eating closely. At least for me, those seem to work consistently.
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However, if you want to catch fish on the fly on the LoPro, you might want to look into learning the "Provo river bounce rig" when the river is weedy, which is basically right now into December. This rig puts the weight in the weeds and the flies are drifted above the weight and out of the weeds. The flies thus foul up with those mossy weeds a great deal less than standard rigs and are thus more available to be inspected by the fish. If you have bassin experience, think of it as dropshot flyfishing.
Here are some links. (Google has a bunch of additional references if you need more)
http://www.vailvalleyanglers.com/blog/ot...bounce-rig
http://www.flyfisherman.com/featured/bounce-nymphing/
http://www.bigfishtackle.com/forum/Utah_...__P892368/
As for flies, I frequently use sow bugs, hares ear nymphs, certain emergers, egg/globug patterns in the fall and San Juan worms in the spring or after rain. The problem with the Provo is that those fish get so much pressure, they have seen it all and sometimes you have to match what they are eating closely. At least for me, those seem to work consistently.
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