I fished Deer Creek today for a few hours. I got Skunked. There is open water near the island. I took the Kayak out for it's maiden voyage. It was a lot of work getting it down to open water but once I got in and started to move, what a blast. It's well worth the money that I paid for it.
I did get to meet Road and Fishboy 2. It was very nice to meet them and to BS with Road. Road caught a nice Rainbow. I'll let Road tell you about their trip.
The ice near the island is not safe. I don't know about the Dam end
It was a great day to be out in the sun and get some exercise.
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it was nice to meet you too. definately was a work out going from on end of the lake to the other in my tube.
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I was there in my float tube. Are you the one who found the duck decoy? I ended up catching 3. It was nice to get out. I enjoyed watching all of the ducks. It almost made me wish it was fall.
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Hey Baetisman,
Yup that was me. You want to know what I liked best about yesterday, No jet skies or moter boats.
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There is no safe ice left on Deer Creek now. I drove past on Sunday on my way up to Park City, and there were HUGE cracks in the ice on the dam end and elsewhere. One was about 3 feet wide! That is isn't going to last much longer. It all looked very soft and rotten too. Jordanelle still looked like safe ice but I didn't see anyone out on it.
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[cool]I was out on Jordanelle on Saturday, and it IS SAFE ice. About 12 inches of good clear ice with about 6 inches of not so clear ice on top of that.
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were you the one out there flinging flys? i wanted to bring my fly pole, but i could not find my fly reel that morning. what were you using
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fishboy 2,
Yeah, that was me. I pulled into the parking lot and discovered that I didn't have my sink tip or sinking lines, so I had to use my floating line. I never seem to do as well when using the floating line. I caught fish with a black woolly bugger, with a couple of split shot at the head to take it down a little bit.
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should have come over and said hi. hey that is what i was going to do, if only i had found my reel
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So what flies do you use at Deer Creek this time of year. Do you ever target the walleyes or bass with flies. Any success with these species. Just wondering. I would love to catch a walleye on my fly pole, but havent had any success yet.
John
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I have never caught a walleye on a fly, but I'm going to try until I do. I've caught a lot of bass on flies. A black woolly bugger works well. I also fish with a damsel fly that has heavy black eyes that works very well for bass and I would think would catch a walleye. I want to spend some serious time trying to catch walleye, which I've never really done. The trout will hit either one of those flies mentioned and I've caught perch on those flies too. In pineview I've caught crappie on the same flies.
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[cool][blue][size 1]If you are serious about getting walleyes on a fly rod, stay away from Deer Creek (where they are tough to catch on even the traditional walleye gear). Go either to Lincoln Beach, on Utah Lake, or to Willard Bay.[/size][/blue]
[#0000ff][size 1]At Lincoln Beach, use big black buggers with some red flashabou or Krystal flash in the tail. Also, tie some with claret red bodies and black tails. Also also, try some purple with silver tinsel in both the body and the tail. A real sleeper color for walleyes.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Of course, in the cold water, you sometimes will to better with a combo of chartreuse and hot red.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]At Willard Bay, start with white streamers or buggers. A hot red head sometimes helps. If they are working along the rocks, sometimes a white streamer with some blue in the back will get both walleyes and wipers.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]Fishing the shallow waters at Lincoln you can get by with a sink tip. You might also want to tie up some of your flies with a mono weed guard, to avoid donating too many to the rocks and stickups.[/size][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][size 1]During the month of June, try throwing the big black flies on a full sink high density at the mouth of the Jordan. The post spawn walleyes sometimes stack up in there and pounce on the little mud cats and white bass being pulled downstream into the Jordan.[/size][/#0000ff]
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Don't stay away from Deer Creek - just don't show up until late May or early June. If the water level is going to get up into the weeds then a minnow imitator fly should be great for both the small mouth and the eyes.
Last year there were alot of 10" eyes that were hungry and would probably be your first target.
If you park at the Charleston bridge area and fish the mouth during the spawn then you should be able to hook into something with teeth...
Early to Mid april is when the spawn happens...
Good Luck and remember the best color in Deer Creek is ? (hint Mar.17th)
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Aye. It be a very lucky color. [cool]
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