Well if you follow either one of us on Facebook or Twitter, you will know that we just returned this evening from a week away. We went on a fly fishing trip to the Provo River in Utah! We take a fishing trip every year on our anniversary…past anniversaries have included fishing on the Trinity River in Northern California, the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, the Deschutes River in Oregon, the Puget Sound in Washington, the Columbia River in Oregon…we wanted to try a different state this year.
Neither one of us had ever been to Utah. What a gorgeous state! We stayed in a small hotel in Midway, UT (which shall remain nameless because it was nice, but roach and spider infested – YUCK!!), which is about 20 miles from Park City, UT where the 2002 Winter Olympics were held. We hiked into different parts of the Provo River with professional fly fishing guide, Jeremy Allan with Four Season Fly Fishing for two different days. The weather was unseasonably cool – mid-80’s and cloudy, and it made for some great fishing! Jeremy told us there are about 3,000 fish per mile in the Provo River!
Over two days, we caught around 60 fish. On the days we were not fishing, we tripped around Utah. We heard from some locals that Moose were native to the Wasatch Mountains – so we took a loooong drive through the mountains hoping to see one. We saw a few deer and some huge birds of prey, but alas no Moose. =(
Nick & Erin's Fishing Adventures 