Somehow, both January and February have come and gone since my last post, and I’ve enjoyed some good winter fishing on both the middle section and Provo Canyon, and I even spent a day doing some urban fishing right in town in order to escape the cold. A couple of highlights include landing a rainbow and a brown simultaneously while fishing with a friend and yanking a hook out of my finger in the middle of the river.

The highlight was that I got it out of my finger and kept fishing.

So after a couple months of cold days on the river, spring finally seemed to be knocking on the door this last Saturday as I enjoyed a bonus leap year day of fishing in Provo Canyon.Every year I look forward to the end of February and the revered buffalo midge hatch that it brings. Although I’ve run into some decent late afternoon surface action over the last month, I don’t think the buffalo midge craziness had quite hit full swing. Unfortunately, I had to run some errands this morning and didn’t arrive until about 12:30, and I was only able to catch the tail end of a midge hatch which arrived much earlier than the last couple of times I’ve been out. Hopefully I’ll get another shot at hitting the buffalo midge hatch on my next time out. In any case, I enjoyed some decent solitude, warm weather, and some nice fish. My favorite was this large football rainbow, as they are affectionately called out here. I had to fight pretty hard to land this one.Although it was extremely windy when I first arrived, it eventually settled down and I was able to enjoy the type of day that makes you just want to sit down and enjoy the warm breeze and scenery for a while, which I did while eating a pb & j. There is nothing quite like a warm and overcast afternoon before a big storm. You can feel it in the air, and somehow it makes the current warm weather that much more enjoyable. Life is full of storms, but it also makes the good times better, so don’t forget to stop and enjoy the warm before the storm.