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Featured Property

Own your own trout stream. A beautiful little stream flows through this property and it boasts a good population of cutthroat trout. It includes 160 acres near Yost in the Sawtooth Forest in extreme NW Utah. Details.

What's New

The Utah Wildlife Board will probably approve permit numbers for antlerless big game hunts (doe deer and doe pronghorn, and cow elk and cow moose ) at its meeting May 7 in Salt Lake City. Sportsmen are encouraged to attend. Agenda.

Salt Lake resident Roy Hawk won the pro bass tournament at Lake Roosevelt. Details.

Where to Fish
Weekend weather looks stormy in northern Utah. When there is a nice spell, head up to Strawberry or Scofield. Get out in a float tube or pontoon boat and fish woolly buggers, leach patterns or small lures. If you can, fish along the edge of the ice. When the ice is gone, fish the shorelines.

Lake Powell will be great any time we get two consecutive nice days. If we get 3 consecutive nice days, action will be dynamite. I'll be there May 8-9, unless that weekend is stormy. If the weather is bad, I'll go as soon as it stabilizes. We're now moving into the best spring fishing at Powell, so I've got to get down there.

Our Twitter Experiment
So far, it is interesting but not very practical because few people are making posts with info about these areas. That should change as we move toward summer. Help us make this a good service by Twittering about your trips.

We are filtering Twitter to pull up relevant reports for:
- Lake Powell
- Strawberry
- Green River
- Provo River
- Willard Bay
- Utah Lake

I'm doing a similar Twitter experiment on utah.com, filtering for national parks. It is looking good because there are more relevant messages:
- Zion
- Bryce
- Capitol Reef
- Arches
- Canyonlands
- Moab

Great Salt Lake Bird Festival will be May 14-18. Includes workshops, field trips, presentations, food, games, fun for the entire family. Events are held at various locations around the lake and Antelope Island. This year's keynote Speaker is Scott Weidensaul.

See our events calendar

- Good Fishing, Dave Webb

Fish Lake, Panguitch Lake and Kolob Reservoir should be ice-free about now, and trout fishing should be good at these waters.

Lake Powell has red-hot bass fishing when the weather is stable between storms. Striper fishing is also good. Water is still too cool for most people to enjoy jumping in, but the fishing makes it well worth visiting the reservoir.

Flaming Gorge rainbow fishing continues to be good. DWR reports: "Boat and shore fishing has been good to excellent in the dam, Jarvies, Sheep Creek and Hideout areas..." Good numbers of small lake trout are also being caught.

Rockport, Piute and Steinaker reservoir have produced reports of very good rainbow fishing. Most of our trout reservoirs should now be fair to good.

Streams are running high. Water levels will be up and down, depending on the weather and releases from the reservoirs. Talk to the guys in the fly shops to learn about the latest conditions and strategies.

A totally new-to-Utah species of cutthroat trout has been discovered in a small stream on the east side of the La Sal Mountains east of Moab. Called the greenback cutthroat, the species is considered threatened and is protected. Populations were known to exist in Colorado but never in Utah. It is amazing that we have discovered a new species here. Details.