Been away for a while

I've been away for awhile and the fishing here is still great. I'm now on Pintrest posting flies and other fishing ideas. look for me @rasczack. There a lot of really great flies on there and I'm really impressed with the new materials that people are using for the flies. I just recently posted a fly that is being used in France. I am looking forward to making a few and seeing how they do here on the Provo and Weber rivers. Let me know how the fishing is doing out there. Remember if you don't have your line in the water you can't catch a fish.

Fly of the week

We are going to start doing a fly of the week. I am hoping to hit some flies that I feel are good for the conditions.

The first fly we are going to feature is the copper John. It can be used as a traditional nymph or stripped like a streamer. It also has both wire and a bead head making it sink without split-shot. Here is the recipe for it: Hook:3761 or 5262, sizes 10-18 weight to suit Head: gold bead Thread: Black Tail: brown turkey biot, V style Abdomen: copper ultra wire Thorax: peacock hurl Legs: brown partridge, tied divided style. Let me know what types of flies you want to see in this. We are going to be doing one a week as well as our other posts about fishing conditions.

So for today they have 13 hand tied fies for $8. Its for today only so you better jump on it if you need some flies.

Great Fishing

There is still some of the best fishing of the year going on in all the rivers. The brown trout are very active and you can get a lot of aggression strikes as well as feeding. I would recommend using streamers or nymphs.

Starvation Resevior and few other places

Starvation had some good fishing for me today. The fish are eating scuds and leeches so you have to get down below the surface to catch them. I was in a remote part of the reservoir and the fish were big. I didn't catch a fish under 16" the biggest was about 20". I didn't see one with the Cabelas tag for a million dollars on it but I'm going to keep looking.
I passed strawberry reservoir and it was flooded and looked like it was crowded. I also passed provo river and it looked great. I'm usually one to avoid it due to crowds but seemed like it wasn't crowded at all today. Jordanelle is looking nice for fishing as well. Lets get out and get some fish.

Tibble Fork

I fished Tibble Fork on Saturday morning and absolutely froze. I arrived there at 0500 and it was quite dark and overcast. Because of this I figured I would start off with bait and so I set up my spinning rod with a two hook set up the lower one had some Predator dough bait in green and the upper hook had a night crawler. The fish completely ignored the dough bait nut did nibble on the night crawler. They didn't take enough to get hooked it though. So I changed both hooks to nightcrawlers and waited. Still they just nibbled and ate most of the worm leaving only a small Parr left on the hook.
If you look at the population of trout there it seems that at the moment there are a lot of fingerlings and the few larger fish are very picky about what they eat. They were only biting on gnats and small dry flies. With the snow coming down while I was there it really wasn't the most enjoyable trip. I hope its warmer next time.

Provo River

There was a decent hatch of blue winged olives (BWO) on the Provo river. This was a great chance to get out and get those fish. They were rising and taking as many as they could. I hope this isn't the last one before the spring run off makes it better to be bait fishing. With all the snow and moisture we had better be ready for a lot of run off. Let s get out there and get those fish!!!

Stone Flies

This stone fly is made on a woolly bugger Mustatad hook #10 with black thread 0/6, black dubbing, black wire, Goose biots for the wings and antennae. I found it works quite well for stone fly hatches. Hope I get to use them soon on a hatch.
Tomorrow looks like it will be good weather for fishing again and I cant wait to get out there. I was going to go out this past weekend but my son got sick and I was unable to. So now It's time to get ready for tomorrow. Let's Get out and Get fishing!!!