Hey everyone, I am new to the area and wondered where good spots for bank fishing are in Utah Lake and Provo River. Is bass a good fish to catch off the bank in either? Any tips on catfishing from the banks? Love to hear all you got on the area. Thanks
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I am learning about UL too, so I definitely don't have all the answers...1st search the forums for past UL posts, then go out and fish with what you learn. I have caught LMB, bluegills, whitebass, crappie, and catfish (mud, and channels) there-but have done way more fishing than catching-and still looking for that elusive walleye. Also perch and sunfish swimming in those waters. I would suggest going to a boat harbor and casting bright colored plastics (red, white, green etc) reeling in slowly. For the cats try fishing at night with worms, hotdogs, or shrimp left out in the sun, or chicken livers, or any other stinky thing you can think of. Good luck.
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As for the Provo, what is your pleasure? Are you hoping to fish with bait, spinners, fly fishing???
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ill tell ya right now, i have only fished the upper reaches of the provo with a flyrod, but maybe this will get you going:
try tossing a night crawler with a piece of split shot into the river where its still moving a little bit, and let it bounce on the bottom. its a sure fire way to catch fish, and since down there the provo is moving slower and warmer im sure youll catch some whities, LMB, and anything else. good luck to you!
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Ut lake is huge, concentrate on a specific area at first.
Like was mentioned, pick a harbor and start fishing. Inside of harbors heat up first reedy areas about the same time. Fish with the bait about 1' off bottom with a bobber for cats, Next to reeds and stumps.
The Prove river is a really neat piece of water. From where it dumps into the lake, up to the 1st weir below the freeway, it is a lasy, log infested extention of the lake. Up from there becomes more of a mixed territory with some escaped white bass, with some brown trout.
Above town and just in the canyon the river has been managed as an artificials semi trophy water for over 20 years and is full of browns, rainbows and cutthroat trout. It is like this all te way to Deer creek reserivior. Above Deer ceek, more trout, more of a meandering river through pasture lands than the swiftness of the canyon where bait is allowed on certain parts. Above the weir upstream of Midway it is still trout madness with a classic freestone bottom up to the dam at Jordenelle reserivior. Great fishing in this area, artificials only again. Above the reservior is a short streach inside a state park at Roock Cliffs but the river soon enters private property and is not accessible except here and there until it enters Forest service land.
Sounds to me like the Provo through town and at the mouth would be good to explore. I think there is even a bike path along the lower part of the river.
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Provo River from Center Street bridge to I-15 just opened today to fishing. It closes every year to facilitate the June Sucker spawn. As was mentioned, you can fish bait from the lake all the way up to Olmstead Diversion dam in Provo Canyon. From there up to Deer Creek is artificial flies and lures only. The Middle Provo has very little open to bait fishing. And the upper Provo there is no bait fishing at all.
Crowds will abound on the Provo wherever you are fishing it. The bike/walking path that was mentioned starts almost all the way at the lake and goes all through town and up into the canyon. So if you wanted to bike it to get a look at a good chunk of the river, you could do that.
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I would like to learn that myself.
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