Utah Fishing Reports

Rock art in Valley of Fire Nevada State Park

Fishing Wiki
Help us build a shared knowledge base about fishing

♣ Read our fishing articles
♣ Listen to FishBytes on KSL Outdoors
♣ Take a SkyCall satellite phone on your next adventure
♣ Follow me on Twitter

May We Suggest:
- Auto/Truck/RV service & repair
- Bear Lake Area Snowmobiling
- Bear Lake Area Horseback Riding
- Bear Lake Area Family Reunions
- Private Ponds Fly Fishing in Castle Valley
- Pheasant Hunting in Castle Valley
- Park City Area Horseback, ATV, Private Pond Fishing
- OK3 Air Scenic Tours

What's New

Promote Your Business or Website
I've been working hard adding new features to our fishing wiki. We are setting it up to promote the social media, websites and businesses of people who add info to the wiki. Post a fishing report, article or water overview and your post will include a link to your profile. Your profile will display your links. See this example.

We are pleased with how the wiki is developing. It is a work in progress, and we love comments and suggestions.

Fishing Wish List
Here's my short list of waters I hope to fish withing the next few weeks. No particular order - I'll work them into my schedule as I travel around the state.
- Flaming Gorge for lake trout
- Strawberry for cutthroat
- Jordanelle for big smallmouth
- Joes Valley for big splake
- Fish Lake for lake trout and splake
- Lake Powell when the stripers start to boil

I'm also eying the lakes and streams around Pinedale Wyoming. There's some great fishing up that way. From Salt Lake, it is closer than Lake Powell or Flaming Gorge.

Rock Art Safari
I enjoyed a great rock art safari in Valley of Fire last week. See my article and photos.

On the way home I stopped by Little Black Mountain, Arizona, just south of St George, and shot good rock art photos there.

I love hunting down ancient Native American rock art. This weekend I'm hiking to a little-know but impressive rock art site in the Grand Canyon backcountry. Called Shamans Gallery, it purportedly has impressive, large images of god-creatures. Should be a fun trip.

Deer and elk hunt changes are being proposed for Utah, beginning in 2011. DWR seeks public input. Details.

A grizzly bear attacked an Anchorage man. He survived by playing dead. Details.

- Dave

Cicadas are providing some action on the Green River, and that should become more consistent now. Talk to the guys in the fly shops because conditions can change on a daily basis.

Trout reservoirs offer generally good fishing. The water is still cool and so fish range freely - they often feed in shallow water. Shore fishing will continue to be good for a couple more weeks, then will slow as the water warms and fish move deeper.

Strawberry often has a prolific insect hatch at this time of year. Trout feast on bugs and are less likely to hit your fly, lure or bait. Fish become finicky and success is spotty - it can be good in one spot and slow in another. Fish early and late for best results. Move around and try various lures or baits until you find something that works.

Lake Powell striper fishing is heating up. Wayne Gustaveson reports stripers are now feeding on larva shad. "Shad are growing each day and within two weeks they will be big enough for stripers to accept surface lures. Then the fun begins with daily boiling action." Walleye fishing has been remarkably good at the big lake this year. "I found that trolling lures within a foot of the tree tops provides consistent walleye action," Wayne says. Read his complete report.

Smallmouth bass are a great sport fish that are overlooked by many Utah anglers. Smallmouth bass fishing should be good right now at many waters including Deer Creek Reservoir, Jordanelle, Starvation, Flaming Gorge and Lake Powell. We have a great article about fishing for smallmouth at Flaming Gorge.

Catfish action is just getting better and better at Utah Lake, Willard Bay, Lake Powell and other waters.