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Rec Property

Soldier Summit Cabin:
- 12.86 acre lot
- 3,054 Square Feet
- 2 Bedrooms, 3 Bathrooms
- Family Room & Den
- Hardwood Floors
- Huge Kitchen and Large Dining Room
- 1160 sq ft basement framed for family room, 2 bdrms, 1 bath

What's New

Fish Lake Bows
I enjoyed catching rainbows at Fish Lake last weekend. We tried jigging deep for lake trout but they wouldn't cooperate. The pup shown above was the only lake trout we caught. A light breeze made it difficult to hold over the fish. Our best action came during the late afternoon as we long-lined Rapalas. Just before sunset the fishing turned on and we caught fish every couple minutes. Nice, strong, fat rainbows. It was a fun trip. See our photos.

Strawberry on Saturday
I'll be sticking close to home this weekend, catching up on fall projects. I'll head up to Strawberry on Saturday afternoon, if I get the bathroom painted in time. Should be good for cutts and rainbows.;

Coming Trips
I hope to get down to Sand Hollow for some largemouth fishing in early November. Sand Hollow is near St George, where it is still warm. Bucketmouth fishing has been very good there this year.;

Hiking conditions are great in our vast southland right now. I hope to take a photo safari to Toroweap, on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, and hike a trail or two down to the river. Toroweap is one of the highest vistas above the river and photos there can be spectacular.

I'll probably fish Sand Hollow one evening, camp there, then head to Toroweep and spend a night there. Haven't locked in dates yet. I still need to find someone to go with me on this trip. Anyone interested?

Events

Heber City's Cowboy Poetry Gathering & Buckaroo Fair, Nov 3-8. Enjoy a weeks worth of continuous cowboy talent where Cowboys and Cowgirls gather to pass on their western traditions and genuine devotion to the cowboy way of life with poetry, music, and live horsemanship. The Cowboy Poetry experience also includes, poetry in motion at the Horse Show Extravaganza; top performing acts in western entertainment; real East Texas BBQ; western vendors & craftsman; horse clinics; and the favorite Cowboy Express train ride.

Annual Navajo Rug Show & Sale, Nov 6-8, Deer Valley. This year's show will celebrate 20 years of bringing Navajo Elders to Park City to share their culture and sell their rugs. The Elders and their families travel from different parts of the Navajo Reservation and while at the rug show demonstrate skills such as carding wool, spinning yarn, weaving rugs and singing traditional songs for school children and the public.

See our complete events calendar

- Good Fishing, Dave Webb

Brown trout are now building nests and spawning in shallow areas in streams. If you walk the banks and look carefully you'll see round spots where they have fanned gravel away from the bottom. You may also see fish near those redds (nests). We hope you'll leave spawning fish alone. There are plenty to catch upstream and downstream from the spawners.

Browns are aggressive now and can be caught on streamer flies or minnow-imitating lures. Sometimes big trout wait downstream from spawning fish and gobble up roe as it floats by. They can be caught on glo bugs (egg patterns).

Trout fishing is good to very good at most of our reservoirs. Most techniques work from trolling to bait fishing, from boat, tube and shore. Long-line a small lure during the late afternoon and you'll catch fish. Action will stay good until weather conditions chase anglers away. In a few weeks boat ramps will become icy and roads will pick up snow. Even when you can't launch boats, shore fishing will be good.

Lake Powell fishing has slowed but can still be good if you adjust to fall conditions. Stripers are being caught trolling and spooning deep - the Hite area has been best. Smallmouth respond to slow-moving plastics worked along the bottom. It might be worth one more trip to the big lake.

Wayne Gustaveson predicts: "A temperature drop to the 50s will move shad out of the shallows to the bottom. Bass and stripers will then have to search to relocate the food source. Bass fishing will slow with cooler temperature while striper fishing success will increase as striper and bait schools will become stationary and easy to find on the graph in bays and open canyons."

Best Lakes/Reservoirs
- Bear Lake for lake trout and cutthroat
- Rockport for trout
- Jordanelle for trout
- Strawberry for trout
- Flaming Gorge for lake trout and rainbows
- Red Fleet for trout
- Steinaker for trout
- Starvation for walleye
- Scofield Reservoir for trout
- Fish Lake for lake trout, rainbows, splake and perch
- Sand Hollow for bass
- Lake Powell for bass and stripers