Fishing report

Fishing report by Sportsman Warehouse

JUNE'S BEST ...

1. Pineview

Musky fishing is good. With the high water levels, fish the flooded brush, the water is stained from the high run off making sight fishing a little difficult. Try throwing jointed X rap Rapalas, swim baits, Mepps Musky Killers or spinner baits. From shore try fishing off of Cemetery Point or Browning Point. The bass fishing is starting to get good. Try throwing Maniac 4-inch salt sticks, in crawdad or green pumpkin, tube jigs, or jerk baits.

2. Flaming Gorge

Anglers are reporting fast action on rainbows using a downrigger. Try trolling jointed Rapalas or small needlefish 20 feet down anywhere from 50 to 100 feet behind the downrigger ball. A few lakers are being picked up jigging white, glow or rainbow colored tube jigs in 80 to 100 feet of water. A few kokanees are being caught around the Utah, Wyoming border. Look for them in 40 to 60 feet of water. Try trolling Rocky Mountain Tackle dodgers, and U.V. squids on a downrigger, pink and glow seem to be the most popular colors.

3. Lost Creek

Fishing from the shore with rainbow colored PowerBait, salmon eggs, or night crawlers has been productive. Float tube anglers are going back by the inlet and having good success throwing bead-head woolly buggers in black, brown and olive. Something with a little sparkle seems to be working best.

4. Bear Lake

Fishing pressure is light. Anglers are trolling for the cutthroats in 10 to 20 feet of water. Try using size 9 or 11 jointed Rapalas in blue, chartreuse, or trout patterns. The lake trout are deep. Try jigging the rock piles with white, glow, or rainbow colored tube jigs, tipped with cisco meat.

THE REST ...

Blacksmith Fork

Fishing pressure is light, and anglers are reporting good fishing the slow water above the power plant. Fly anglers are fishing small bead-headed nymphs or woolly buggers. Spin anglers try panther martin spinners or small floating stick baits.

Causey Reservoir

Shore anglers are having good success for splakes and small rainbows using night crawlers, PowerBait, tube jigs or spinners. Trolling has also been productive, using small spoons, or jointed crank baits 100 feet behind the boat.

Deer Creek

Anglers are having good success trolling jointed Rapalas or spoons behind a downrigger. Try trolling 20 feet down and letting 50 to100 feet of line out behind the downrigger ball. A few walleyes are being picked up slow trolling bottom bouncers trailed with a worm harness.

East Canyon

The Division of Wildlife Resources has stocked East Canyon with 40,000 rainbows. Anglers are having good success trolling 20 feet down with a downrigger. Troll small jointed Rapalas or needlefish anywhere from 50 to100 feet behind the downrigger ball. Shore anglers are having success with night crawlers or PowerBait.

Fish Lake

The ice is all gone. Anglers are having success for small splake. Try jigging along the weed lines with small spoons tipped with perch or sucker meat.

Green River

The A section under the dam has been fishing very well. Flows are high, but fishing is good. Fly anglers are reporting a few cicadas showing up. With the high water, try throwing flies a little larger than normal. Use cicadas with a bead-head dropper, glo bugs, San Juan worms or scud patterns. Spin anglers are finding success throwing yo zuri minnows, Rapalas, or panther martin spinners.

Jordanelle

Reports of a few rainbows being caught from shore, try night crawlers, or PowerBait. From a boat try trolling jointed Rapalas or small spoons 100 feet behind the boat. Bass fishing is picking up, anglers are having success throwing tube jigs, senkos, or jerk baits.

Logan River

Water in the canyon is high and muddy. Fishing the slow water by the dams has been productive. Try using PowerBait, salmon eggs or night crawlers.

Ogden River

No sign of the stone flies yet. They have started letting a lot of water out of the dam, making the water high and murky. Fishing is tough through the canyon, try fishing along the parkway. Spin anglers are having success using spinners or night crawlers.

Lake Powell

The water is rising a foot a day. You can now launch a boat at Hite on the primitive ramp. The stripers should start to spawn any day now.The best time to find the big ones is at night. Look for the schools of stripers in the back canyons. Jig the schools with anchovies. Also try throwing deep running crank baits in shad or chrome colors. For the bass, try fishing the newly flooded brush.

Provo River

Fly-fishing anglers are having success on the middle section, just below Jordanelle Dam. Try throwing Blue Wing Olives or small black midges. If there is no surface action going on, try throwing small zebra midges, glo bugs, San Juan worms or emergers patterns. Spin anglers are catching fish on floating or suspending Rapalas, or Yozuri pin minnow.

Rockport

Anglers are having success trolling small spoons or crank baits 100 feet behind the boat. Shore anglers are using PowerBait, salmon eggs or night crawlers.

Scofield

The west side of the lake seems to be the best fishing. Shore anglers are producing using tube jigs, marabou jigs or bait. Anglers are also having success trolling jointed Rapalas, or spoons 100+ behind the boat.

Strawberry

Anglers are having spotty success both from shore and in a boat. Fly anglers are striping sparkle woolly buggers in black, brown and olive. Spin anglers are producing using tube jigs, marabou jigs, Lucky Craft Pointer 78's in ghost brown or rainbow patterns. Also try worms, or minnows.

Weber River

With the run off flowing, the lower section of the Weber is high and murky. Anglers are reporting good fishing between Echo and Rockport, also fish the inlets to the two lakes. Fly anglers are throwing scuds or sow bugs, also try glo bugs or San Juan worms. Look for BWO hatches on in late mornings, and early evenings. Spin anglers are throwing floating Rapalas, Yozuri pin minnows, panther martin, or mepps spinners.

Willard Bay

There have been a few reports of anglers launching smaller boats from the north marina. Anglers are catching wipers trolling Bill Lewis Rattle Traps in shad or chrome colors, on planner boards. No reports of boils yet. The south marina is closed.