Utah Fishing & Outdoors Report

This cold weather will firm up ice quickly and so there will soon be plenty of fishing options. Strawberry now has ice on some bays, and crazy people have been getting on it, but it is not safe. Give it one more week and then hit the bays, but be careful because there may still be open water or thin ice on the main lake.

Currant Creek Reservoir and Navajo Lake should now have safe ice and offer good trout fishing.

Within a week there should be good ice fishing at Panguitch Lake, Otter Creek Reservoir, Forsyth Reservoir, Mill Meadow Reservoir, Steinaker Reservoir, Red Fleet Reservoir and many other waters. Again, be cautious.

Snow and cold make it difficult to fish the streams, but the fish are still there and still eating. On mild afternoons you can do well fishing streamers, glo bugs and small nymphs.

Lees Ferry offers good rainbow trout fishing all winter long. It is on the Colorado River below Glen Canyon Dam. The best success comes boating up the river and then working the gravel bars. Lees Ferry Anglers updates this very good fishing report.

DWR's regional fishing reports are not very current right now and so we aren't emphasizing them.

Interesting Posts By Anglers
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Pelican has ice and is good for bluegill
Mantua has good ice fishing for perch
Lake El Salto Mexico has great bass fishing
Flaming Gorge has ice on the north end

Articles
DWR
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Don't wait to join Dedicated Hunter program

Salt Lake Tribune
Avalanches keep rescuers busy in Utah's backcountry
Hike of the week: Syncline Trail Loop - Island in the Sky, Canyonlands National Park
The outsider: Tracking wildlife, Nordic ski race clinic
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Hook shot
Outdoor Notes: Opportunities to volunteer in national forests abound
Tight Lines: Program that educates beginning anglers deserves our full support
Ten captive-bred black-footed ferrets released near Vernal (with video)
Free market aquaculture benefits the fishing public
Recreation roundup
Waterproof your MP3 player
Bird sighting

KUTV
Avalanches Bury Snowboarders Near Brighton Ski Resort
Ice Fishing At Utah's 'Mammoth Reservoir'
Ice Fishing With The Proper Gear
State Parks: Scofield
Utah's Often Forgotten Corner Of History

Deseret Morning News
Crews respond to three Big Cottonwood Canyon avalanches
Avalanche season: Stay informed of the risks
Late storm well-received at resorts
Amy Donaldson: Treadmill (yuck), trail (yeah) and gym etiquette
Ray Grass: Gifts galore for hunters and anglers
Bird-watchers to begin counting
Outdoor notes
Survey shines light on ORV unruliness
Grand Canyon road closed for winter
Zion National Park is a little slice of heaven
If you go to Zion National Park
Powder Mountain backs off threat
New suit filed over Glen Canyon Dam
Ski resorts receive lots of fresh snow
Zion seeks bird counters

Regional News
Parasites in Fish Farms Threaten Salmon, Researchers Say
Environmental group sues over operation of Glen Canyon Dam
IDFG wants comments from muzzleloader hunters
Chlorine leak kills 200000 rainbow at Idaho hatchery
Moose now thrive in Outside habitat
More than 50 attend Boise meeting over Idaho wolf plan
Tracks in snow first physical evidence of wolves paired up in Oregon
State game biologists poised to count wildlife from above
Petroleum Association works to prevent sage grouse listing
Wyo. issues first mercury-fish advisory
Cattle Battle -- Grazing debate rages as plans move forward
Federal judge critical of salmon plans
Loomis looms large in Northwest coastal conservation effort
Study to begin on Teton Range bighorn sheep
Wolf program debate raises other questions
Supplying the demand
Deer poaching case ends
Cracking down on kids hunting
Montana sets wolf-harvest number; Wyo. still undecided
USA. Colorado angler wins Bass Anglers Legacy Sweepstakes
'Clean' coal? What a joke
DENTRY: Big snow good news for wildlife
Gift ideas for your favorite outdoorsman
States agree on plan to make water last
Water supply gets less (and more) secure
Study shows several lakes free of non-native quagga mussel
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Are cutthroat trout affecting catch numbers on the Truckee River?