February brought with it some nice sunny days and IGS was able to get several clients out on the water this month. The fishing reported was excellent with some nice Rainbows being caught, and even a few cutthroats. It’s not often people look forward to seeing bugs hatch. But if you want to catch fish along one of Utah’s most popular sections of the Provo River these days, it pays first to see what’s hatching.
And, right now, daily hatches of blue-wing olive are bringing fish to the dinner table. That is, to surface flies that curiously resemble the blue-wing.
Fishing below Deer Creek Dam, especially just above and below the Sundance turnoff, has been good . . . and crowded at times because of it. Too crowded, some say.
Some call this time of year the “Awakening” . . . bugs are hatching, fish are becoming more active as a result of the warmer water and fishermen are starting to think about wading in water rather than snow.
This is also a time when new menus are being presented to the Provo River brown trout.
Along with the daily hatches, insects and worms are being picked up by runoff waters and deposited into moving rivers. Fish, after having limited morsels during the winter, are starting to feed their voracious appetites.
via deseret news