Fishing report

JULY'S BEST ...

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. Bass fishing is good. Try throwing Maniac 4" salt sticks, in crawdad or green pumpkin, tube jigs, or jerk baits.

Flaming Gorge

Kokanee fishing is good. Anglers are trolling from the pipeline south and finding a few fish. Try using Rocky Mountain Tackle dodgers, with a U.V. squid a couple of feet behind it, florescent colors seem to work the best. The lake trout seem to be spread out, try trolling large spoons, dodgers and squids, or jig with large tube jigs. Bass fishing is good. Throw curl tail grubs, tubes or maniac salt sticks in crawdad, or green pumpkin colors. For the rainbows, anglers are drifting with a worm and marshmallow, or try trolling small needlefish or kastmasters.

Willard Bay

Fishing for wipers has really picked up this last week. Anglers are catching wipers trolling Bill Lewis Rattle Traps, or other rattle baits in shad or chrome colors, on planner boards. No reports of boils yet.

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.

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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, use 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

Anglers are having good success trolling 20 feet down with a downrigger. Troll small jointed Rapalas or Needlefish any where from 50 to100 feet behind the downrigger ball. Shore anglers are having success using night crawlers, or PowerBait. Bass are starting to hit jerk baits, tube jigs, or Maniac salt sticks.

Fish Lake

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. The bass are hitting tube jigs, senkos, or jerk baits. Look for the bass in the structure shallow areas.

Logan River

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

Lost Creek

Fishing from shore with rainbow colored PowerBait, Zeke's floating bait, 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.

Ogden River

Water levels are starting to drop. Fly anglers are seeing a few caddis hatches in the evenings. Spin anglers are having success using Panther Martin or Blue Fox spinners, night crawlers, or salmon eggs.

Lake Powell

You can now launch a boat at Hite on the primitive ramp. The stripers are schooling in the canyons off of the main lake. 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, throw tube jigs, spinner baits, or jerk baits.

Provo River

Fly-fishing anglers are having success on the middle section, just below Jordanelle Dam. Try throwing Caddis flies in the evenings, parachute Adams, or small terrestrial patterns. 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 minnows

Rockport

Anglers are having success trolling small spoons such as Kastmasters, or needlefish, or crank baits 100 feet behind the boat. Shore anglers are getting the trout to bite 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 Reservoir

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. See the proclamation for special regulations on Strawberry.

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. The Taggerts and Croydon areas are also fishing well. Fly anglers are seeing caddis hatches in the evenings. Also try throwing small terrestrials, scuds, sow bugs, glo bugs, or San Juan worms. Spin anglers are throwing floating Rapalas, or Yozuri pin minnows, also panther martin, or mepps spinners.