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.

Saturday May 14 2011

I am planning to head out to Tibble fork that morning and hopefully make it up to some of the other lakes in the area. I love how picturesque it is up there even when I have been freezing to death. Hope that others can make it up there as well.

Flooding

with all of the run off and the rain it is harder than ever to get those fish on your hook. The best thing to do is to try small slower tributary streams and use heavy flies to get down where the fish are holding. If you're having problems finding the fish I would be happy to gelp you out in getting the proper location and depth. Lets go get some fish.
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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.

Overcast weather combined with all the run off makes for some really murky and low visiblity for the fish the best thing to fish with right now is some bait. The reason being is that the fish are looking forfood using their sense of smell and what ever settles into their holds. These holds are down where the current is slower so they use less energy and don't get washed away or hit with debris. The difficulty for fly fishing is quite high due to the speed of the water and the visibility. The trick is to use the heavy flies with tungsten to get down into the fish holds. Now lets get out and get some fish!!!

Big cottonwood canyon

I spent the afternoon up little cottonwood canyon fishing today and I just missed a BWO hatch that would have been perfect for me. I saw the last few BWO flying around. I tried a bead-headed nymph to no avail. I also tried a few scuds and other flies. It would have been nice to had made it for the hatch. I guess there's always next time. As it is the full moon today I will have to be out there for the next full moon and get in on all the good hatches for the season.

Pennaz Post: First Glimpse at Berkley's New NanoFil > North American Fishing Club

Pennaz Post: First Glimpse at Berkley's New NanoFil > North American Fishing Club

OK so I really want to try this line and see if it really is the what Steve Pennaz says it is. I'm pretty sure it must be good but it sounds too good to be true. If this really is this good I am going to start to use it as tippet and put it on all my spinning and bait poles. If anyone knows how to get some before June please let me know I'll give a very thorough review in all the uses I have for it.

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!!!