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DEER CREEK RESERVOIR: Most anglers have experienced windy and cold conditions over the last few days. Most bass anglers report fair success, and trout and walleye anglers report slow to fair success. Anglers who use PowerBait from the shoreline have seen fair success, especially in the morning and evening hours. Please remember that the trout limit is four fish statewide unless otherwise noted in the 2008 Fishing guidebook. The yellow perch limit is 10, and the bass limit is six, but you must immediately release all bass over 12 inches long. The walleye limit is 10, but only one over 24 inches may be kept.

JORDANELLE RESERVOIR: Trout and bass success is considered fair by most anglers. You’ll find the best success by using action lures and jigs to fish near points and submerged structures. The perch limit is 50! The bass limit is six, but you must immediately release all bass over 12 inches long. Please remember not to fillet bass or remove their heads or tails while at the reservoir. A law enforcement official may need to verify that your bass do not exceed the 12-inch size restriction.

STRAWBERRY RESERVOIR: Windy and cold conditions over the last few days made angling difficult. Anglers have reported fair success for cutts and have also seen the occasional rainbow trout. A cutthroat trout lecture will be held on Saturday, June 14 at 10 a.m. at the visitor center (behind the center at the fish trap). Bring your family and get a close-up look at the big spawning cutts! For the best fishing success, anglers should try casting pointer minnows toward weed beds in about 15 feet of water near the shoreline. White tube jigs are also working at various depths. Dead minnows are a good bait choice. Regulations for the reservoir include an aggregate limit of four trout or kokanee salmon. No more than two of these fish may be cutthroat trout under 15 inches, and no more than one may be a cutthroat over 22 inches. All cutthroat between 15 and 22 inches must be immediately released. (Any trout with cutthroat markings is considered a cutthroat.) Don’t feel compelled to harvest fish on every trip. Please do your part to ensure the future of this heavily utilized fishery by voluntarily releasing fish!

UTAH LAKE: Please use caution if the lake gets windy; several folks had to be rescued recently during a sudden wind storm. Anglers are still having some good success for white bass and channel cats. Walleye fishing has been slow. The largemouth and smallmouth bass limit is six, but you must immediately release all largemouth and smallmouth bass over 12 inches long. For more information on conditions, call Utah Lake State Park at (801) 375-0731.

YUBA RESERVOIR: Anglers report spotty success for both perch and walleye, and have also seen an occasional northern pike. There aren’t many rainbow trout in the reservoir. Please keep the walleye you catch. For more information, call the State Park at (435) 758-2611.

Smaller lakes, reservoirs & ponds

BURRASTON POND: The pond has been stocked. Fishing success is fair to good. Most anglers are using PowerBait.

MILL HOLLOW: Drained! No fishing until 2009!

PAYSON LAKE: The road to Payson Lake finally opened last week! There haven’t been any fishing reports yet, but some hungry fish await anglers. You should expect some wet conditions—and maybe even snow—in the campground.

SALEM POND: I just got back from fishing Salem Pond, and the action was slow to fair. More catfish are scheduled to be stocked soon. I saw spawning bluegill along the shoreline in the shadow of the vegetative cover. Evenings and mornings are the best times for both catfish and trout. The park closes at 10 p.m., and the daily bag and possession limit is a total of four fish (including all species). For example, you could catch and keep one trout, two channel catfish and one bluegill—or any other combination of species—as long as you don’t exceed the four-fish limit.

SALT LAKE COMMUNITY WATERS: All community ponds have been stocked, and fishing success is fair to good. Willow Pond is a popular fishery and has produced good results.

SPANISH OAKS RESERVOIR: The reservoir is open, recently stocked and seeing good success. Worms work best. Some albino rainbows have been stocked as well; they are visible and fun to watch as you fish!

SPRING LAKE: The lake has been stocked. Anglers report fair to good success. Catfish success is fair.

TIBBLE FORK RESERVOIR/SILVER LAKE FLAT: An angler named Russell reported that he fished Silver Lake Flat Reservoir yesterday in the early morning for four hours. He was flyfishing from a float tube and caught over 20 fish. He took home four of them. He noted that the reservoir appeared to have a lot of slimmer, smaller fish. Out of the 20 he caught, about six were brook trout and the rest were rainbows. From the group of rainbows, only three fish (rainbows) were longer than 10 inches—most were in the 8- to 10-inch range. He also noticed that fish seemed to be staging to spawn near the spillway, and there appeared to be some larger fish in that group. Tibble Fork Reservoir anglers report fair success. Most anglers were using baits from the shoreline.

VERNON, GRANTSVILLE & SETTLEMENT CANYON RESERVOIR (Tooele Co.): (May 29) All waters have been stocked. Anglers have reported fair to good fishing success except at Grantsville, which was a bit slow this week.

Rivers & streams

AMERICAN FORK RIVER: There weren’t many anglers on the river, but those who did fish reported good success with worms or small flies.

DIAMOND FORK RIVER: The river has seen light fishing pressure, and anglers report fair success in using flies, worms or lures. Most cutts in the areas above Three Forks are similar in size (about 10–12 inches).

HOBBLE CREEK & CATCH BASIN: These waters are stocked! Angler Stephen reports doing very well by fishing the deeper water in the center of Catch Basin (with an inflatable canoe). The water is a bit murky and high. Brown trout in Hobble Creek are biting flies and worms in the early mornings and around dusk .

PROVO RIVER: The water level is high, so use caution on the river. Hare’s ear, sow bugs and other small surface flies and bottom-bouncing nymphs are producing fair to good success in pools and feeding zones. Read the 2008 Fishing guidebook for the river regulations. Some areas allow bait, and others do not. Size restrictions and reduced limits (such as “two brown trout under 15 inches”) are in place in some stretches.

THISTLE CREEK: Anglers report fair to good success with flies, lures and worms. I didn’t see anybody on the creek a couple of days ago!

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