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Provo River

The Provo River (Ute: Timpanoquint, “Rock River) is located in Utah County and Wasatch County, Utah, in the United States. It rises in the Uinta Mountains at Wall Lake and flows about 71 miles (114 km) southwest to Utah Lake at the city of Provo, Utah. From Wikipedia

Length
68 mi
Basin
673 sq mi
Elevation
4,485 ft
Rises at
Clyde Lake
Flows into
Utah Lake

Flow now

Provo River Near Charleston, UT, 1 mi from the river.

148cfsat build, Nov 12, 11 AM MT

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The typical week here, from 10 years of record: 157 cfs to 164 cfs, around 160 cfs.

Water temperature at the gauge: 46°F.

Also gauged at Snake Creek Near Charleston, UT: 50 cfs, Nov 12.

Snowpack

0.4 in of water in the snow at Thaynes Canyon and 2 more stations, against a median 1.3 in for the date (28 % of normal).

The snowpack here usually builds from Oct 24, peaks Apr 17 and is gone by May 29; runoff follows the melt.

The season, November

Usually workable this week. Pick your window and fish it well.

  • Midgessizes 18 to 22
  • Small eggs and worms
  • Pheasant tail and zebra midge nymphsunder an indicator

Typical for the week over 10 years: 157 to 164 cfs. Running 148 cfs today, inside that range. Flows are not forecast; check the gauge the day before.

Brown Trout are spawning (October to December). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Brook Trout are spawning (September to November). Stay off clean, light-coloured gravel in riffle tails and pool tailouts, and leave paired fish alone.

Mountain Whitefish are spawning (October to December). The egg bite behind spawning whitefish is the best winter nymphing of the year: an egg pattern below the riffles.

  • Egg patterns in the runs below the spawning gravel, never on it.

Written by the app's rules engine from the calendar, the gauge record and the snowpack, not by hand, so it says only what the data says. The weather for the week comes with the app.

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Flows from the U.S. Geological Survey, snowpack from the NRCS SNOTEL network, text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Built Nov 12.