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Thread: Utah: Provo and Webber Rivers

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    Default Utah: Provo and Webber Rivers

    I'm heading to a wedding in salt lake the weekend of the 22nd and have a day to burn and was thinking of fishing the provo or the webber, both of which i understand to be good rivers. Does anyone have any recomendations for that area, or know of any guides they would recomend?

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    ~Jake

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    Trout Bum 2 in Park City has a guide service. We fished the Weber with them last year and had a really nice day

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    http://www.eddierobinsons.com

    These guys are great.

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    www.goldmedalfishingguides.com
    The Provo is fishing well right now with daytime pmd hatches and evening caddis. The fish are healthy and willing to take well presented flies. Give us a call and we can book you a day trip that you won't forget! 800-826-5447

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    I've never fished the Webber, but if it's a weekend date, the Provo can get pretty crowded. It has a lot of easy drive in access and isn't a very large stream, just a heads up.

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    +1 what Kevin said...
    Exit 7

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    So we ended up driving on a whim since flights were 700 bucks a piece from sac to salt lake, and i needed a car anyway to get around to sneak out to do some fishing. After about 8 hours of driving i finally saw this. Attachment 7621

    Only was going to have a half day to fish, so based on some internet scouting, some PM's here, and a trip to a local fly shop out there i decided to fish the middle provo. I was told that most of the fish were small, but that the browns were starting to get aggressive in their pre-spawn stage. That fact coupled with overcast conditions led me thinking one thing.....streamers. Perfect weather for it.
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    This river is absolutely stunning. Perfect setting.
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    I arrived at the parking lot before dawn, in hopes of hiking a ways to get away from the massive crowds, which are common on this river. Unfortunately both my hiking plan and steamer plan were thwarted when i got to about the fourth run from the lot and fish were rising, everywhere. I tried a couple casts with the streamer to no avail and then quickly tied on a EC caddis and started to have fun. These little guys were rising, everywhere. The river is absolutely loaded with them.
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    After a caught a number of those i decided i was in search of something bigger, so hiked down stream aways, found a good streameresk stretch of water, tied on a double streamer set up and went to work. I was rewarded quickly, and often. I think i probably caught ten nice sized fish on streamers before the clouds broke, sun came up, and the streamer game subsided.
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    After the streamer game died i started heading back towards the car and stopped to fish a couple runs. Caught a few on nymphs and got my but completely handed to me trying to figure out what the fish were taking on top mid morning. All in all was a fun few hours of fishing, only wish i had more time....

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    Wow. Some real nice fish. The second one is a beaut!

    How bout that drive across Nevada....never ending.

    Quite a successful day of fishing...especially since you'd never fished it.

    Btw, are those galvan reels not the best? What weight rod did you use?

    EO
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    I caught my biggest brown so far on the Webber, but the Provo kicked my butt. I had monsters well over 24 inch follow my fly so many times and not take it. Both water are beautiful.
    So long and thanks for all the fish!!!
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