Mother's Day Caddis Hatch on the Middle Provo

I took a solo trip on Friday, May 16th to the Middle Provo after work.  I hit a prolific Mother's Day Caddis hatch.  Fish were flying out of the water all around me.  It was fun to watch.  I caught three, landed two, and missed two others.  I fished just downstream from the Legacy Bridge outside of Heber. The SPOT tracker shows the general vicinity. Despite the community pond feel from all the fishing pressure there, it was still a good time.  I made a quick GoPro video in the link below.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it!

GoPro Fly Fishing on the Middle Provo in Utah

Running Against the Strawberry Wind

May 10th, 2014 we took the much anticipated trip to Strawberry to fish as the ice was receding from the shore. Turns out, there was just one small problem:  THERE WAS NO ICE!  Apparently, the Department of Wasted Resources (DWR) has a very loose definition of "receding ice".  Despite that, the cold wind, and the threat of rain/snow, we had fun in the beautiful outdoors.  We even caught fish.  Mortensen landed a nice 15" Cutthroat.  There were two mini-Mortensen's with us this time as well.  Adeline and Isaac joined this expedition.  Isaac had a fish on, but he escaped.  He also tested his arm strength tossing rocks in the lake, right by Dad!  Adeline hunted down numerous crayfish exoskeletons between snaking on cookies and dried mangoes.  I ran the GoPro camera, but never seemed to get the timing just right, even for the three fish I hooked, but couldn't land.

Here is where we fished from the SPOT:

Close up SPOT: