First Fishing Trip in Utah

[dangalang]

I went fishing yesterday for the first time since I moved to Utah. I decided to head to Strawberry Reservoir and fish from shore for some rainbow or cutthroat trout.

I fished a nightcrawler under a bobber on one rod and various lures on the other rod. About 15 minutes after I started fishing, I see my bobber dancing in the distance and I run over and start fighting the fish. I get it about 20 feet away and see a big flash of white as it headshakes and finally spits the hook. Excited but heartbroken, I reset my bait line and keep fishing. After about another 20 minutes I see my bobber dancing again and this time I land the fish! My first cutthroat trout and first fish caught in Utah! I think it was about 17-18".

I had 6 bites and landed 3 fish. The biggest looked to be about 20" - all cutthroats, no rainbows. I caught one of the three on a white Powerbait mice tail tipped with some night crawler. Pretty steady action all day, but it was all on bait. The wind picked up at noon and the water started white capping. I packed up around 1p. Felt good to finally tug on something!

[Crow]

  Nice trout !

[alantani]

congratulations!!!!

[Cor]

Nice fish.   Looks quite toothy like you need to keep fingers away!

[Tiddlerbasher]

Yum

[HOLEINTHEWATER]

GOOD TIMES.

[Shark Hunter]

Beautiful fish.

[Keta]

Nice fish.

[foakes]

Thanks for taking us along!

Utah is a Sportsman's state.

For years, we hunted Muley's around Panguitch -- think Strawberry Reservoir is a little NE of there.

I wonder if Flaming Gorge is still productive for those giant browns in the Fall?

Best,

Fred

[happyhooker]

Nice trip; one thing I miss about S. Minnesota is that we don't have much trout water; when I lived in Arizona, even though a lot of the state is toasty, there's trout water even down in the desert.

Frank

[MarkT]

Nice! You in the Provo/Orem area or up in Salt Lake?

[Hamachi]

Way to go, Tim! Good job. What kind of gear you using? Even though sometimes I don't get bit throwing lures, they'll follow it in and find the worm when leaving. Sounds like you had a good day.

[dangalang]

Nice! You in the Provo/Orem area or up in Salt Lake?

Hey Mark, aka Cow Killer!! I'm in downtown Salt Lake City.

Way to go, Tim! Good job. What kind of gear you using? Even though sometimes I don't get bit throwing lures, they'll follow it in and find the worm when leaving. Sounds like you had a good day.

Warren!! I was using a 1500 size spinner on an ultralight 7.5' rod for my bait setup and then a 2500 size spinner on a 9.5' Lamiglas X-11 for lures (which was my surf fishing setup back in Cali )

Haven't gotten into the fly fishing stuff yet...

[Hamachi]

Sounds like what I would use, except don't have the long rods, old school, too cheap to buy new. Lol

[Hamachi]

What's a license cost in Utah? Restrictions? Two rod stamp? There's a fish called a burbot or something. Be on the lookout for that one!