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I am on the airplane flying over Greenbay and looking down at Lake Michigan. What a trip I had out West. Jason knew where to find the fish, what flies to use and how to fish each river. We laughed a lot, casted a lot and caught a lot of fish. I really enjoyed the Rainbow Trout fishing but the Brown Trout fly fishing on the middle Provo river was really cool. We woke up in the morning and there was snow on the ground. In fact, the mountains had gotten 10 inches of snow. Kinda amazing, considering it was Sep 20th (still summertime). So after the guys at Trout Bum hooked us up with some Platte River Spiders and other essentials we pull up to the Middle Provo River. We geared up and looked down on the river while standing on a little wooden bridge. My polarized glasses allowed me to see clear to the bottom of the river. Regardless, my eyes still needed a moment to adjust to the water. You know what I mean, its kinda like when someone turns out the lights. You can still see, but your eyes just need a minute or so to adjust to the lighting. Well, when my eyes adjusted, I could not believe my eyes. Trout. Brown Trout and Loads of them were swimming under the bridge. Big one too. We immediately got in the water. I saw that they were feeding on emergers, so I tied on a prince nymph with a trailing wet fly. I figure that everyone out west fishes the same stuff all the time and wet flies are not part of many western fly boxes. So, I thought that maybe the trout would like to see something a little different. I guess I was right because the Brown Trout loved the wet flies. I casted ¼ cross stream. Let my flies sink a bit and then

started to make little strips on the swing. BANG! A good size brown trout attacked the fly. I could have stayed in that pool all day, but Jason said, “Ok lets go up stream, we gotta lota holes to hit.” So, we moved up and fish were rising and acting up in every stretch of water. Jason got a few nice fish on a streamer pattern called the Platte River Spiders. It really was Paradise. The number of Trout in the river was astounding and we caught fish on nymphs, streamers, wet flies and I think Jason even got a few on dry flies. I was really surprised to see how well the Browns responded to a stripped nymph. Yeah, of course, they would take a nymph on the dead drift. However, they really seemed to respond better when the nymph was fished like a streamer or wet fly. No different than anywhere else really. Trout mostly feed on emergers. So anytime we fly fisherman can emulate an emerger we are bound to catch fish. Every old timer I have ever met tells me the same thing. “Presentation is everything” So, I simply apply that concept everywhere I fish and it seems to work. The key is knowing what the trout are feeding on and how they are eating their food.