Utah Fishing & Outdoors Report

Huntington Reservoir has ice in most areas and people have started fishing on it, but safety is questionable. With these cold nights, ice near the dam will probably be safe by Saturday. Use caution and test carefully before betting your life. Huntington is one of our best tiger trout waters and usually offers very good ice fishing early in the season. It is located along Hwy 31, between Fairview and Hunting. Here's more info and a map link.

Other small lakes at high elevations probably have similar conditions. Good bets for early ice fishing include Puffer Lake on Beaver Mountain, Woodruff and Randolph reservoirs, the lakes on Diamond Mountain above Vernal, and accessible Uinta Mountain lakes. Since we haven't yet received heavy snow, you may still be able to drive to Mirror Lake, Whitney, Moon, Stateline, Bridger, Hoop and similar waters.

Scofield is usually our first major water to freeze. We're guessing it will be fishable by Dec 1. Watch the reports because it is often very good when the ice first becomes solid.

Interesting Post By Anglers
- Strawberry continues to offer great fishing
- Scofield is hot for tiger trout
- Green River Browns Park is good for browns and rainbows
- Flaming Gorge is good trolling
- Bear Lake offers big fish but you've got to work for them
- Electric Lake has good action for cutts
- Daniels and Deep Creek, Idaho, offer great fishing
- Report - whirling disease found in NE Uintas

DWR Hotspots Report
DWR says these waters offer hot fishing
- Strawberry for cutts and rainbows
- Weber River for browns, other trout and whitefish
- Calder Reservoir for rainbows

See DWR's regional fishing reports for info on other waters.

Recent News Reports
DWR
- Doe and fawn shot and left to rot
- Big game hunting rules for 2008 seasons will be discussed at the Wildlife Board meeting on Nov 29 in Salt Lake City. Here's the agenda.

KUTV
- Young Utahns Get Pheasant Hunting Opportunity
- 50,000 Acres Opened Up To Utah Hunters
- Field Guide: Ringneck Pheasant
- Hunting Ducks Off Shore... And On The Water
- Utah State Parks: Utah Lake

Deseret Morning News
- Colorado hopes bears hibernate soon to end encounters with humans
- 'Energy corridors' in West assailed
- Aspen incorporation denied
- Private lands a sore point in many parks
- Construction under way on wind farm

Salt Lake Tribune
- Plan your outdoor expedition online
- Eriksen receives award for promoting skiing 'as a way of life'
- Hike of the week: Frary Park Trail -- Antelope Island State Park
- Rock inscription near Powell probably authentic
- Still time to nominate members to Wild Horse Advisory Board
- Flights of rapture
- Wharton: With a little help from my friends
- Tight Lines: Want to make a difference? Get four friends hooked on fishing
- Where is it?
- Get ready for turkey season
- Recreation roundup
- The outsider
- Hook shot
- Trumpeting the swan
- Bird sighting
- Decades later, Leopold's wisdom still rings true
- Turkey DNA helps Utah geneticist bust poacher
- Wyoming commission approves gray wolf management plan
- Utahns exercise right to openly carry firearms
- S. Utah touts ritzy retreats

Regional
- the blm is doing the right thing in utah
- seeds contain hope of healing great basin
- Plan sets Idaho guidelines for managing wolves after delisting
- Decline in hunting could hurt Idaho economy
- volunteers restore idaho's scorched countryside
- State needs to address mercury issue
- Game and Fish office to serve public better
- Hunting still big business despite decline
- wyoming campaign now conservation statement
- what’s killing the bighorns?
- native americans claim religious-liberty right to kill eagles
- Buzz Kill: Snowmobiles in Yellowstone
- Three men face charges for hunting violations
- FWP extends elk season in some areas
- hunting missoula style: fat tires and whitetails
- 'a griz swiped my elk'
- Mining issues getting noticed in BC
- energy dilemma: habitat or profit?
- DOW says there's no plan to poison fish at Rifle Gap
- the allure of mountain troutin'
- State to reintroduce river otters next year
- 17-pound Mackinaw trout at North Lake Tahoe, Calif.
- No new takers for open regional advisory board seat
- black mule deer spotted
- Race for Arctic assets heats up debate over sea treaty
- Critters could protect lake