Closest River To Salt Lake And Park City
Published September 16, 2010 | 
If you are a tourist in Utah and are looking for a close river to fish, here is the information you will need. The closest river to Salt Lake and Park City are The Provo River and The Weber River. The Provo River is about 30 min south of Park City and the Weber river is about 20 min North East of Park City. If you are in Salt Lake, it will take about 20 min to get to Park City.
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Published September 1, 2010 | Recently Utah Pro Fly Fishing started a new blog that we know locals and our customers will enjoy called troutfishingutah. Please spend a few minutes on it and let us know what you think. Enjoy the FREE Utah Fly Fishing Reports. Bellow is a recent post from our guide Gilbert from Aug 21, 2010 who also has the website flytying123.com:
The Middle Provo River here in Utah is a very reliable river that constantly produces fish caught by artificial flies. Like all rivers, some days are more productive than others. On these days the fish appear to be less picky and easier to catch. Other times fishing requires precision and patience, but fish can still be enticed by well fished flies. Today the fish required some patience and well drifted flies. Fish were caught, but our clients were required to pay their dues by casting continuously hoping to pass by a willing fish. With instruction from our guides, our clients hooked a good number of fish, and the river once again yielded its dividends to beginning fishermen. We fished from 11:00 until 3:00 and all four hour fished identically with fish being caught here and there. PMD nymphs and caddis larva imitations were the hot ticket once again. We saw very few fish rise, so we stuck with nymphs for the duration of the outing. Utah Pro Fly Fishing guides had a fun group of fishers, and everyone enjoyed their time on the river.
Flies that worked today:
Splitcase PMD Emerger
Cased CaddisToday’s flows were: 345 cfs
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Utah For Fly Fishing
Published July 25, 2010 | Today is going to be a great day on the water. Stay tuned for more info later tonight!
Memoirs Of A Fly Fishing Initiate
Published July 16, 2010 |
Written By: Jared Chatterton
I’m not one to express myself via the written word. Justin pressured me into writing this monologue. He is also the one that pressured me into a fly fishing obsession. Because of this, he has become my wife’s worst enemy. I get the “you’re going fishing again” look on a regular basis. I justify my disassociation by saying, “honey, I am fulfilling my fatherly furnishing responsibilities by providing food for the family.” I haven’t kept one yet. Of course, I need to catch one big enough to filet. My wife thinks that all of my catches are 10 inchers. There is something about fly fishing that is hard to describe. It is much more than a process or activity. Of course, the captive moment occurs when you set the hook into the lips of a large trout and gently, yet forcefully, bring it towards you as if you just beguiled the fish with your conquering mental and physical capacities. It feels good. It makes all of us stupid men feel really smart.
Even when you get skunked, you still have fun. Here is my list of why fly fishing is more than the catch:
1. Watching your abnormally uncoordinated friends fall flat on their face in the middle of a swift moving river. It makes you LOL every time.
2. Consuming massive quantities of sunflower seeds. The river makes for a perfect shell receptacle. They also make a perfect alarm clock telling you it is time to go home when the oral seed sores start to hurt.
3. You can donate $4 worth of flies to an overhanging tree branch in a single cast and you don’t even care; yet we are quick say “no” when the nice lady at Wal-Mart asks us to donate $1 to the Primary Children’s Hospital. It must be the pleasant atmosphere that puts you in such a good mood.
4. Trying to get to the next good fishing hole. This usually requires hiking through thick brush and swamp land. You wouldn’t chase your favorite dog into some of this treacherous territory yet the terrain is a paved parkway when a prospective fishing hole might be around the corner.
5. Unfortunately, you sometimes have to share the river with others. You have never met any of these people in your life, yet you are all BFF (best friends forever). We all share the exact same social status and title: angler. Certainly my discourse wouldn’t be complete without some pictures. Here are a couple lousy cell phone shots of my most recent trip to the lower portion of the Logan River. There is a white fish which is the most annoying fish ever. I wonder what I could do to prevent myself from catching so many of those. The other is a typical rainbow. I added the reel for professional affect. (pictures above)
Logan River Fly Fishing
Published April 22, 2010 | 
It’s hard to be working on Real Estate when it’s finally sunny. You know the feeling…you gotta get out. So it’s perfect weather and my friend and I went out to lunch together yesterday. We started talking about fly fishing, (it somehow finds its way into most of my conversations) I never knew how good of a fly fisherman he was till he starts telling me about how he grew up fly fishing and fly tying. We decided to hit The Logan River ASAP so we chose right then. Here is a picture I got from within the first 15 min we were there.
It was a great Day. My friend Heath got into them too. I’m glad the summer is here, Heavy guiding starts in 2 weeks!
Setting Up a Fly Fishing Rig – Nymphing Style
Published March 27, 2010 | 
I am a Utah fishing guide and have noticed that when I started out on the Provo and Weber Rivers years ago I made the same mistakes that I see most other beginners on the river making that just aren’t catching as many fish, which is: spacing! The spacing between your weights to the first fly and then from your first fly to the last fly makes a big difference in the amount of fish you will produce. Here is a very easy way to figure out if you have your fly fishing rig set to proper proportions.
When you setup your rig you should start by adding at least 8 feet of leader to the fly line. At the bottom of the nine foot line attach about 16-18 inches of 4x tippet and tie on your first fly. Now attach 16-18 inches of 5x tippet to your second fly making sure that you tie on your tippet to the eye of the hook(not the shank of the previous fly). Remember to put, depending on the depth, about two “BB” weights above the first knot coming down to the first fly. So it would look like this:
ROD——-(8 feet of leader)—–X—————-X————-X————X
(strike indicator-6 feet to weight) (weight) (1st fly) (2nd fly)
If you follow these steps and go and fish on the Provo river you will do pretty well. Especially if you use a #16 “PR Sow Bug” tied by Rainy’s flies as your first fly(with some orange thread by the eye of the hook) and a #18 “Split Back PMD Emerger” tied by solitude flies as your 2nd fly.
Now that you know the secret to spacing, you will now catch more fish! This spacing technique works on almost any fly fishing river with over two and a half feet deep water. Good luck to you while your fly fishing Utah.
If you are ever fly fishing Utah and want a professional Utah fishing guide I would love to help. Justin@utahproflyfishing.com
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