Today Shifty and I took the afternoon off and went fishing. Our first stop was the Lower Provo River just above the Olmstead Diversion. We were tossing jerk baits, spinners, and spoons. We got on the water around 1:30pm after Shifty found his balaclava. We both started off with jerk baits and moved up and down the river bank looking for a hit.
The weather wasn't the greatest, we had rain, sleet, small hail pellets, and wind pretty much all at the same time. We changed lures as we moved up and down the bank. Shifty braved the water in his hip waders to possibly get a better angle on the fish. I tried to stay dry and on the bank with all the weather I still got wet.
I finally put on a Kastmaster and had a few swings at the lure. I changed colors and still just a swing and a miss. I changed color and size and got one to engage. The hit was fun but small and the fish was just that fun and small. A little brown trout but it knocked the skunk off the trip. We fished for just a few more minutes and got nothing so we decided to go fish Deer Creek.
We arrived at Snows Marina and hiked down the bank and started throwing lures. The weather had calmed down but the wind was still screaming. We walked to the end of the shoreline trail and fished many holes along the way out and back. Didn't get a hit. We moved to the state marina and fished the small cove between the ramp and Sailboat Beach for about an hour, the same results. Shifty bushwacked around the small cove and I drove around to meet him at the point on Sailboat Beach, by the time he made through the thick willows he was spent but he didn't give up still throwing lures and trying to get a hit. I put on a go-to Kastmaster thinking just maybe I would coax one into joining me on the beach. No such luck! It was late and the wind was still screaming and we called it. Got one on the river and the banks of Deer Creek are still beguiling.
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