2nd day fly fishing 2025, February 19th – Middle Provo River – water temp 37, browns rising to midges Sounds a little too obvious, doesn’t it? One of the great things about trout rising to the hatch, is that they easily give up their position. Easy right? Put on the right fly, make a good […]
2024 – Year End Wrap! On the water, it’s all about the variables
December 27th, 2024 – Taking a holiday break from fishing Well, if I don’t fish again in the next five days, I still will have met my goal for this year of 60 days on the water. In fact, I’m up to 65 as of last week. Last year when I wrote a similar post […]
Pressured, Picky Fish – Don’t Forget The Rig!
63rd Day Fly fishing – December 6th, 2024 – Middle Provo River, Heber, Utah These days, it is getting harder to find places to fish in a post pandemic US that are not pressured. It may be just me, but it seems like there has been an explosion in the sport both during and since […]
Fall Henry’s Fork Float with Molly the Wonder Schnauzer
52nd ay of Fly Fishing – October 21st, 2004 – The Henry’s Fork 850cfs Molly has been on a few floats in her four and a half years. You might ask why so few? Well, it’s largely because Molly is basically ADHD. We she is on a boat, which is a small space for a […]
Spring trip to the Green River – Flaming Gorge
11th Day Fly Fishing – Aprill 19th 2024, Little Hole, streamflow 950 cfs The reports were in. a warm day with cloudy skies were expected for Friday and miraculously, my calendar was open. Each year I try to get to the world famous Flaming Gorge of the Green River during the spring BWO hatch. One […]
Year End Wrap – Big Fish Eat Little Flies
66th Day Fly Fishing – December 19th, 2023 Gratitude! Ok, it is the 19th of December, and I’m calling 2023 a wrap! It’s possible that I could fish again next week. But today was epic and if it was indeed my last day of ’23, it ended perfectly. Frankly, it almost didn’t happen. I was […]
Spring is for swinging! Trust your back-ups!
12th Day of Fly Fishing – April 3rd – South Fork of the Snake – Secret Spot Here we are April 3rd, should be having BWO hatches every day. Anyway, I had been tying two patterns for fishing rivers now. The first was a sparkle wing RS2 emerger. This is a Charlie Craven pattern and […]
Waiting on a BWO hatch – It’s Been a Long, Cold Winter!
11th Day Fly Fishing – March 28th, 2023 – Lower Provo River, Utah In a normal season, the BWO’s would begin coming off in mid-March and by the 28th you would expect some serious hatches. Having not been out for a couple of weeks, I chose today for the weather. Finally a warm up into […]
A One Fish Day can be OK
10th Day Fly Fishing, March 6th 2023 – Ashton, Idaho This morning, I was seriously conflicted about going fishing today. The flurries were still pretty serious and the temps were only 20. Looking for divine guidance I consulted my photos from a year prior. Yes! Just a year ago I fished the Ashton area and […]
Winter Fishing on the Lower Provo
8th Day Fly Fishing – February 26th, 2023 – Lower Provo, UT 168cfs Some days, sitting at home in Sandy, UT gets really boring. Especially if it has been multiple days in a row. So on this cold day I ventured forth and decided to fish a regular spot on the Lower Provo. I was […]