Hey there, I'm going to be camping with my in laws up at Tony's Grove wednesday and thursday. I plan on using spinners, salmon eggs, and POSSIBLY flies. I was wondering if any of you bfters have any more info on Tony's grove lake and what would work. Let me know!
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I fish Tonys Grove around a dozen times every year although I haven't yet this year. There are a lot of small trout in the lake but the fishing pressure usually keeps them pretty weary. I've had my best success casting small spinners and using small dry flies early in the morning or late in the afternoon. Four pound test leaders will dramatically up your chances when fishing gets tough. I've never used bait for them there. Around the little inlet seems to do pretty well but may be hard to cast to. I've seen guys do well using salmon eggs or worm under a bubble there. I'd try walking all around since it's pretty small. If you guys don't mind a hike I'd walk up to White Pine. You park in the same parking lot and it's a pretty easy hike that takes about an hour and fifteen minutes. You can catch many of the most beautiful brook trout I've ever seen in Utah, some going up to 14 inches.
Try some No.12 to 14 Prince Nymphs, Hare's ears, or olive brown, and black woolly buggers on a bubble rig with 4 lb. fluorocarbon leader that is at least 3 ft. long. You can let your offering sink or stay near the surface and slow down and speed up the retrieve to see what is getting the best results. It is getting very close to the time of year when woolly buggers become one of the most deadly patterns you can throw after dark and don't be surprised if you start getting strikes on every cast when the sun goes down (if you stay that long.) If you do some night fishing and the black buggers aren't getting much response, it may still be a little too cold for the metabolic rate of the trout to be in overdrive. In that case you could try a small, black foam beetle reeled slowly and see if that creates some fast action.
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Just a couple of thoughts. I am guessing you are going to be fishing from the bank. If that is the case I would try the west side of the lake and if you are using bait I would use your favorite power bait. I would put it on about a 6'X 4lbs leader under a bubble and sink the bubble. That or I would try the flies and a bubble option already mentioned.
I think White Pine lake is actually still closed until after the 10th of July. It is part of the upper Logan River drainage. The creek from it dump into the Logan above Red Banks. The proclamation does not help much but any maps I have looked at suggest it is closed.
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I would guess that if tony's lake is open for fishing, white pine lake would also be open, but I will look into it
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Tony's Grove lake empties into the Logan below Red Banks so it is open. White Pine empties into the Logan above Red Banks so I think it is closed. But please do check, I would really like to know for sure! Thanks!
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I think White Pine is open to fishing- maybe it's camping that open this week end.
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This is what the proclamation reads:
(b) From the highway bridge at Red Banks Campground
upstream to the Idaho state line, including
all tributaries:
• Limit 2 trout and whitefish in the aggregate.
• CLOSED Jan. 1 through 6 a.m. on the second
Saturday of July.
White pine is a tributary to the Logan River that come in upstream from the Red Banks Campground bridge! There is not any other info listed about White Pine Lake in the proclamation! Without calling the DWR to find out for sure I would not fish it until the second weekend of July.
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White Pine is a lake- I would think that since it is it would be listed in the exceptions list if it was closed until a certain date. I would think that White PIne creek might be closed until the opener. Though the proc is very vague and not very precise.
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[
]Well I could stand it no longer so I called the DWR and packfish is correct
] White Pine is open and has a four fish limit! So there you have it!
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Thank you- now I can say it- I had fished it last year before now- didn't want to say I had done something INADVERTANLY illegal [
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