streamers on the provo

[ezlehappy]

Ever since I caught that rainbow on an egg sucking leech, I've been obsessed with streamers as a new realm of flyfishing to explore.

Besides egg-sucking leeches, what are some streamer patterns, (bucktails included) that you have found success with on the provo? Which section too (upper,middle,lower)?

[Jason B]

I have fished with black buggers and leeches. I have found that during slow times you can strip a bugger or leech in deep pools just bouncing it off the bottom. I have caught many big bows that way

[flyfshr8]

Gentlemen-

Try that J.J. Special!

It begins on page 248 of 'Tying with Jack Dennis and Friends'. It outfished any other wooly/matuka/leech pattern I threw last year on streams.

As a matter of fact, last fall I used it a bunch on the Weber just below Wanship. I had to turn my back to the stream everytime I tied a new one on my tippet it was so good! LOL ;^)

Seriously, I fish it on a six weight sink tip. Up from Vivian Park on the Provo a few weeks ago and caught 13 browns on the thing! You can swim it just below the surface for the most fun, but deep foot-and-a-half strips pick up fish too.

[Light Cahill]

On the Provo and other waters, I've taken some pretty decent sized bows and browns on my favorite streamers - the Spruce, Muddler Minnow and Woolly Bugger.

[shazerblaze]

Buggers and CLOUSERS. I have caught more fish on clousers than any other streamer on the Provo. I have never really fished muddlers much, but I hear they are good too. I recently tied up some dark spruces to try. But I always seem to fish most with clousers in orange and brown.

[ezlehappy]

What color of clouser? Got a picture and a recipe?

[shazerblaze]

Orange and brown are the colors -- it is a sculpin clouser. Check out the umpqua site

http://www.umpqua.com/flygallery.htm. Type in clouser and go to page 3 of the search. There is a mighty fine picture there.

Those are the best colors I have seen.