03-17-2015, 04:30 AM
I fished the Provo several times before I ever caught a fish. The easiest thing for me starting was streamers. I would just strip a streamer across the river from the opposite bank and then move upriver a couple steps and repeat.
The fly you were showing imitates a blue wing olive. I think those should have begun hatching by now, but I did not see any on the river where I was at. Where I was, it was all midges. Most of what I learned about entomology I learned from "Handbook of Hatches: Introductory Guide to the Food Trout Eat & the Most Effective Flies to Match Them."
I will warn you that this is my opinion and not a fact. I think the most important thing to match is size, then shape, then color, when you are matching a hatch. That's how I do it at least, and I have been quite successful. Also, I think if you learn the difference between a midge and a mayfly you will have 90% of your fishing situations on the Provo covered.
I've been fishing the Lower Provo three or four times a month for about two years now. I'm usually up there on a Monday or Tuesday, sometimes a Sunday. You won't catch me within miles of it on a Saturday though. [laugh] I am always happy to share what I know, even though I'm a relative newcomer to the sport. I could have saved a lot of fishless days if I had someone to show me the ropes. Feel free to send me a PM sometime and I will be glad to tell you where and when I will be there. I'm more than happy to help.
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The fly you were showing imitates a blue wing olive. I think those should have begun hatching by now, but I did not see any on the river where I was at. Where I was, it was all midges. Most of what I learned about entomology I learned from "Handbook of Hatches: Introductory Guide to the Food Trout Eat & the Most Effective Flies to Match Them."
I will warn you that this is my opinion and not a fact. I think the most important thing to match is size, then shape, then color, when you are matching a hatch. That's how I do it at least, and I have been quite successful. Also, I think if you learn the difference between a midge and a mayfly you will have 90% of your fishing situations on the Provo covered.
I've been fishing the Lower Provo three or four times a month for about two years now. I'm usually up there on a Monday or Tuesday, sometimes a Sunday. You won't catch me within miles of it on a Saturday though. [laugh] I am always happy to share what I know, even though I'm a relative newcomer to the sport. I could have saved a lot of fishless days if I had someone to show me the ropes. Feel free to send me a PM sometime and I will be glad to tell you where and when I will be there. I'm more than happy to help.
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