Provo River Fly Fishing Guides

Provo River Fly Fishing Guide Service Rates

Our Provo River fly fishing guides are friendly, professional, experienced, and most importantly, passionate about fly fishing. Chad Jaques, owner of Trout Bum 2 personally hires only the best guides that he feels will give you an unforgettable experience on your Provo River guide trip. Chad grew up in Utah and has spent a lifetime fishing and guiding on the Provo River so knows that the guides he hires are truly the best qualified guides that you will find. Trout Bum 2 guides are Provo River veterans that live to fish the Provo and are on the river every chance they get throughout the entire year. They know the Provo River like the back of their hand and will work hard to ensure that your guide trip is an unforgettable experience. If you want to fish the Provo with the guys who know the river better than anyone else, you can be assured that you have come to the right place. Your guide trip with us on the Provo River will be an experience you won't soon forget.

Fly Fishing The Provo River Overview

Utah's Provo River is a phenomenal blue ribbon brown trout fishery that is self sustaining with wild Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout, Cutthroat Trout and even Brook Trout in the upper reaches. The Provo has a large variety of water and offers a range of great fly fishing in spring, summer, fall and even in the middle of winter. The Provo The Provo River originates in the Uinta Mountains just east of Park City, Utah which is 30 minutes east of Salt Lake City, Utah. On its journey to eventually end up in Utah Lake, the Provo makes its way through two major reservoirs, Jordanelle Reservoir and Deer Creek Reservoir.

For ease of description, it is divided into three sections; the upper Provo River (everything from Jordanelle reservoir upstream to the headwaters), the middle Provo River (the river from Jordanelle Reservoir downstream to Deer Creek Reservoir), and the lower Provo River (includes everything the river from Deer Creek Reservoir downstream.) Our fly fishing guides are experienced in fishing all three sections but specialize on the middle Provo River and the lower Provo River.

Middle Provo River Guide Trips

Your middle Provo River guide trip is a short 15 mile drive east of Park City, Utah. This is a very convenient location for a 1/2 day Provo River guide trip. The middle Provo is located just off of highway 40 in the Heber valley and our guides know all of the best holes, riffles and runs. will show you where that trophy brown trout lives. What can you expect on your guided trip? A guide trip on the middle Provo River is a memorable experience regardless of the fact that the river is a great fishery. You will be immersed in a beautiful, wild natural setting with dramatic scenery and wildlife. Our Provo River guides are very experienced with this section and will show you where the big brown trout hide on your guided trip. One of the reasons that the middle Provo is such a spectacular fishery is the result of it being a tail water. This means that the water temperatures are fairly stable throughout the year keeping it colder in the summer and warmer in the winter making the trout and the insects much more active. What this means for you on a guided trip is the fishing is a lot more consistent than on other rivers that get warm in the summer and very cold in the winter. The middle Provo is cobblestone bottom river with good hatches of mayflies, caddis & stoneflies and midges. Because of this, good dry fly fishing is a possibility throughout the year on your middle Provo guide trip. The middle Provo had a full-scale stream restoration completed on it which added approximately four miles of river meanders, and much needed in-stream structure. For more information and a current Provo river fishing report check out our Middle Provo River Fishing Report The middle section of the Provo River ends as the river flows into Deer Creek Reservoir

Lower Provo River Guide Trips

Your lower Provo River guide trip is a slightly longer drive about 30 minutes southeast of Park City, Utah but it can definitely be worth it! This section of the Provo is much different from the middle Provo. The Lower Provo River flows through a steep canyon near sundance ski resort in Provo Canyon. This section is also a tailwater below Deer Creek Reservoir so can also provide consistent year round fishing for your guided trip. This section of the Provo maintains a healthy population of wild brown trout, with populations of rainbow trout (some very big ones) and a few cutthroat trout as well. This section is long established tail water with prolific populations of sow bugs, scuds and midges and as a result a big population of trout. Our guides love fishing this section because of the chance at a true trophy Rainbow trout. Guide trips on this section frequently have chances at dry fly fishing. The hatches of Blue Winged Olives and midges are prolific on the lower Provo in the early season. Pale Morning Duns, Caddis and Little Yellow Stoneflies round out the menu during summer months. The lower Provo river runs parallel to highway 189 in Provo canyon so is not as far removed from civilization as other stretches of the Provo. In the summer months, the lower Provo can be dominated by the "tube hatch" with recreational floaters dominating the scene. If you don't mind dodging the rafts, the browns and rainbows on the lower Provo are used to it and fishing can be very good despite all the traffic and our guides can show you how to find the fish regardless. There is good fishing on the Provo well below here into town, but water levels and access become more of an issue so the guides usually don't fish below here. The high quality managed section of the lower Provo ends at the lower end of Provo canyon at the Olmstead diversion. For more information and a current Provo river fishing report check out our Lower Provo River Fishing Report The middle section of the Provo River ends as the river flows into Deer Creek Reservoir

Upper Provo River Guide Trips

Your upper Provo river guide trip is about a 30 minute drive east of Park City, Utah. The upper Provo River for the most part is free flowing with high spring flows and low fall and winter flows. There is also a lot of private water on this section, so our guides usually only do trips here in the early season in the section above the reservoir or much higher up in the summer. There are good populations of small brook and cutthroat that eagerly take the fly in the higher reaches in the Uinta Mountains. Winter snow makes access difficult on the upper Provo, and spring runoff makes it unfishable until early summer. The lower portion of the upper Provo, near the small towns of Francis and Woodland can provide good fly fishing with more Brown and Rainbow Trout, but access is difficult due to private land. Access to the river on the upper reaches is easy on National Forest land along the Mirror Lake highway (SR 150). The Upper Provo River ends as it flows into Jordanelle Reservoir near Heber City, Your middle Provo River guide trip is a short 15 mile drive east of Park City, Utah. This is a very convenient location for a 1/2 day Provo River guide trip. For more information and a current Provo river fishing report check out our Upper Provo River Fishing Report The middle section of the Provo River ends as the river flows into Deer Creek Reservoir

The fly fishing guides that we have at Trout Bum 2 are some of the better guides you will fish with and they will work hard to make sure that your guide trip is a success. You can definitely fish the Provo River without a guide, but hiring a guide for the day can help you learn access, find the best spots, know the hatches and perfect your techniques. Let our guides show you a gread guided day on the Provo river!

Weber River and Other Local Streams

In addition to the Provo River,we have the Weber River, Duchesne River, Currant Creek and the Strawberry River. There are also several other small streams and creeks both on the South slope of the Uinta Mountains and elsewhere - all within a few hours of our fly shop in Park City. Our experienced fly fishing guides can help you find the fish on any of Utah's local streams.Click here for a current Weber River Fishing Report

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