I'm coming down from Idaho the 8th -12th of June and going to be Staying in Syracuse the 8th 9th 10th but driving to Draper for training the 11th and 12th.
I would love to get some fishing in over the weekend and I'm trying to catch any new species and get pics with them to add to a kind of checklist I've made.
I've attached my spreadsheet of fish I've caught and would like to catch. Any help with places and hints with what to use from the banks for the fish I have yet to catch would be a great help!! Unfortunately I cant bring my boat. Please let me know of any species I may not have on my checklist!!
If one place may have multiple species I've yet to catch that would be even better! Or if anyone would like to show me around, that would be awesome. I do have a buddy that may come with from Ogden also. He doesn't seem very interested though.
I'll drive or hike anywhere I need to go to make this happen! Thank you for any help in advance! I fly fish and use rod and reel and have a sturgeon rod among many others, so I should have tackle covered!
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Syracuse puts you mid-north, and some good opportunities from there. Channel cats are pretty fun fish to target. Big Cutts at the Berry. Walleye, if you know where/how.
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You can leave your sturgeon rod home.
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Really? No sturgeon!! That sucks! Come on up and I'll take you out!! Do you have cats large enough for me to bring it?
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Thanks I have fished for sturgeon many times in Idaho. Nothing large enough in Utah to require your sturgeon rod.
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Doesn't look like you have walleye on your list. I've caught them in Deer Creek (probably an hour and a half south of Ogden,) Willard Bay (right by Ogden) and Starvation (two hours east of Salt Lake City.)
Deer Creek is fun, rainbow trout, brown trout, walleye, sunfish, perch, and bass. Same with Starvation, maybe minus the sunfish. Willard Bay has cats, wipers, bass, crappie, walleye.
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I do actually, though it was a small fish and could use a bigger one! It's under perch on the Idaho side!! But thank you for the help!! It means a lot!
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Are there any fish you consider trash fish or non game fish that are native to Utah. That u could be able to catch that we may not have in Idaho?
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We nailed the White Bass, and cats at Utah Lake this last weekend.. Find an inlet.. Red or pink jig head chartruese body, small clear minnow, WB meat for the cats around the inlets in the murky water... We launched at the marina by Lindon went a little north to an inlet and had a blast most of the day.. First time we'd been to UL and did ok..
The Bearlake species you'll need to get with me in the winter months.. White fish start in late Nov, but the best time to get all three is when the Cisco are spawning in mid to late January..
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My first walleye (which I caught at Willard) was over 22 inches, lol...I've caught them at up to18 inches in Deer Creek. (That's just me, they do come bigger there.) In my experience you're more likely to catch them at Starvation, but they are smaller there.
They're under perch, because perch and walleye are cousins. Walleye are the Godzilla of perch, though, and they eat amazingly well too. I like them a LOT. [
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By the way, I also caught a perch at Starvation that was within less than an inch of the state record. [
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Thank you very much for the help! As I'm on limited time it looks like my two main stops will be Willard and UL! I hear a lot about June suckers, do they hit bait in bottom? What about the shad? By the way I am catch and release only (just in case people are holding back thinking I may take more than a fair share of fish). We seem to have that problem here with perch and crappie and trout.
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Also, what strain of Cutthroat are you guys mainly catching? We have the Westslope, Snake river fine spotted and Yellowstone. I'm looking for anything and everything I can catch that I haven't caught yet!!
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Just an update, now I've come to find my training is only Tuesday so I'll now be fishing Friday through Monday! Any takers?
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Lucky you!! Wish you the very best. I'd love to come but I'm going to be in Chicago with my daughter (also my favorite fishing buddy) Friday until Sunday, and Monday gotta go put some flowers on some final resting places.
If you can though, I very strongly recommend taking the time to go over to Starvation. I hope one of our local guys can show you around there, if not check the forum for TubeDude's post on his "New Starvy Map." I usually fish on the west end of the route 40 bridge, on the north side, and catch rainbows, walleye, perch, and bass there. I've seen browns caught there but haven't ever managed to bring one in, myself. The walleye I've gotten there have mostly been caught bottom bouncing a roadrunner marabou jig, but I think I've gotten one or two on nightcrawlers floating 18-24 inches off the bottom.
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I don't know if the rules have changed much but when it comes to June suckers you better cut em loose as soon as possible. They were on the federally endangered list for a while and had a huge fee if you killed them intentionally. Since they have been restocking them I don't know how the rules have changed. But on the bright side the white bass are spawning currently and it can be really fast fishing. You should try to get a hold of some of the big bass guys from Utah valley and they could probably show you some really nice large mouth. Walleye can be good if you are lucky that day but then again I really don't target them so I don't know much about that. My brother and I tend to wade out a little ways and cast parallel to shore jigging occasionally. But there are lots of different techniques that seem to work.
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