07-31-2005, 03:01 PM
07-31-2005, 05:22 PM
I fished Lost Creek yesterday [saturday] with my son and his stepson. We fished the inlet side of the boat ramp. The best action for cuts and bows was in 25' to 30' of water with the trout suspended at around 20'. We were on float tubes using fly rods with full sinking line and woolly buggers. The action was steady from 8:00am until we left at 2:30pm. We saw some fish caught from the shore and from other float tubes using power bait.
The fish averaged around 13" with a few hitting 15". The surface water temp was about 70* most of the day.
We brought 2 bows and one cut home for dinner. The meat was orange telling me that they have been in the reservoir for over a year.
There were a lot of other anglers but no one ever got in our way. We never fished by the dam and I did not hear any reports from over there. I hope that this helps, Dale.
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The fish averaged around 13" with a few hitting 15". The surface water temp was about 70* most of the day.
We brought 2 bows and one cut home for dinner. The meat was orange telling me that they have been in the reservoir for over a year.
There were a lot of other anglers but no one ever got in our way. We never fished by the dam and I did not hear any reports from over there. I hope that this helps, Dale.
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07-31-2005, 06:55 PM
What is the water level like at Lost Creek Reservoir?
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07-31-2005, 07:35 PM
Man, that's some good info! We may try it on Tuesday or Wednesday. My son is camped out from over the weekend so we'll just do the day trip. A fellow here at work did well on Diamond Fork near the campground - he used flies and his father-in-law used worms and caught a bunch of browns. We may hit that and then go the back way to Strawberry.
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08-03-2005, 11:51 PM
Kent, sorry for the late responce but the level of the water is comming down from a month ago. The depth of the water was as deep as 30 plus feet in the area by the protruding rock formations in the side of the mountain that resemble dinasour heads, if you know where I mean. From there it gets shallow quickly and we stoped at 8' of water and headed back for deeper water.I would say that we saw what would be normal water depths for this time of the yead, which is a big improvement from the past 6 years of drought.
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08-04-2005, 12:21 AM
This is a little off the Lost Creek subject, but you mentioned the orange meat. We packed into the 4 Lakes Basin in the Uintas and caught some Brookies. some had organe flesh and some had pale white flesh what exactly does that mean? I assumed it was the difference between planters and native.
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08-04-2005, 01:21 AM
I have been told by several different people that when a trout in planted into a lake from a hatchery, it takes about one year of a diet of native feed to change the color of the meat from white to pink or orange. I believe this to be true as I will catch trout at places like Mill Hollow and the smaller planters have white meat and larger fish that I assume are one year hold over fish will have pink or orange meat.
In lakes that are not stocked, the small fish are pink or orange also, which tells me that the theory is true.
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In lakes that are not stocked, the small fish are pink or orange also, which tells me that the theory is true.
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