Utah Fishing & Outdoors Report

It is time to break out the ice fishing gear, as more and more of our trout waters freeze up. Huntington Reservoir was one of the first to go and it is offering good hard-water fishing for tiger trout. Other similar small, high elevation reservoirs may also have safe ice.

Scofield is usually our first major water to freeze. It now has thin ice near the dam, and people have been out on it, but open water in other areas. Ice should firm up quickly near the dam and we expect safe conditions in that area this weekend. Use caution and test carefully before committing yourself.

Strawberry is developing ice along shorelines, but probably won't offer safe ice fishing for a couple more weeks. Open-water fishing is still good but it is getting difficult to get to the water.

There will be a free ice fishing clinic Tuesday, Dec 11, 7-9 pm at Sportsman's Warehouse in Riverdale. All areas of ice fishing will be covered. Also, redrockadventure.com has good ice fishing articles and photos.

Flaming Gorge, Bear Lake and our brown trout streams are still good choices if you don't want to ice fish.

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.

Interesting Posts by Anglers
Huntington Reservoir offers tiger trout through the ice
Scofield has ice near the dam
Scofield also has good shore fishing
Bear Lake whitefish are spawning - open water
Flaming Gorge has good open-water fishing for rainbows

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