A certain someone
that I know routinely asks what am I using. Typically, it's the first question
I get after showing him some pictures or videos of a nice Provo River brown. While
I have seen feeding trout rise up to closely inspect a dry fly, only to snuff
their noses up at it, there seems to be
a little more leeway with streamers and nymphs, more so in faster moving water.
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| Baetis Nymph--Photo from flycurrents.blogspot.com |
Perhaps, this certain someone is like many other
fly-fisherman, who when preparing for a fishing trip, they head to Sportsman's
Warehouse, Cabelas, or their local shop. Today, I visited Sportsman's to pick
up some more split-shot and could not help but notice the lengthy list of
recommended flies to fish on the Lower and Middle Provo. Truth be told, taking
the board's advice verbatim would send an unknowing fisherman into a Noah's Ark
shopping spree, purchasing two of each fly and enough to represent the dry, wet, nymph, and streamer families. I really recommend doing some basic
homework before heading into an outdoor dealership and your pocketbook will
thank you later. Case in point, yesterday's "October 8th" trip
featured the use of only two types of flies for the entire day: a size 20 baetis nymph, which trailed a size 18 sow bug. That's it. Of
course, admitting that just a few flies is all anyone really needs would
threaten the industry's overhead and therefore, the misinformation of the
whiteboard was invented to cause unsuspecting fisherman to buy WAY more than
they really need.
FYI: another trip is on tomorrow's horizon and I will be
seeking revenge on a specific run in the Middle Provo. I have hooked into three trophy
browns out of this run but have been unable to land any of them,
including the one featured in yesterday's fishing report. I will be triple checking knots, tippet, and leader tonight. Tomorrow will be
different! Hopefully pictures and videos to come.
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