I'm in a bit of a bind. We are planning on going out somewhere this weekend, heading out Thursday evening like the rest of the world. We haven't reserved anywhere, so I'm not even sure where we might find that we can go. It will be me, my wife, and 4 girls. We will probably spend 1 day fishing, and who-knows-what the other day. Any suggestions? My preference would be strawberry for the fishing side, but anything in about that distance. If we camp it will be by tent with the boat or camp trailer with shore fishing. I just don't know if we will be able to find any camping spots this late in the game.
The other alternative is finding a hotel in Park City, and heading out for the one day fishing, then the next day doing the Park City thing.
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We would also go somewhere else within about the same distance from Salt Lake or less, not stuck on Strawberry. That's just one place I know.
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Try heading to the south slope of the uintas, for example upper stillwater. the further you get the less people there will be. You can also look at the north slope of the uintas.
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A lot of the campgrounds also keep some spots for walk ups, so you can always through the dice and see what you get.
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Strawberry is big enough,i am pretty sure you could find something without being cramped. Soldier creek too. The A camp ground is with in walking distance to fishing bays.
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It's looking like our plans were changed due to some family stuff on the 4th. I'll just be heading out first thing tomorrow morning (3rd) with a friend to spend most of the day out fishing. We can't go as far as strawberry for the day as his wife is due soon with a baby. We are looking at Rockport, Echo, Willard, or Jordanelle. Right now, based on the DWR reports, we are leaning toward Rockport. Willard was good when we hit it a few weeks ago, but it's looking to be really HOT tomorrow so I would prefer a little higher elevation.
Any suggestions? I've never been on Rockport. It sounds like trolling is doing well and some people are catching smallies (never fished bass much). I just hope we don't get run off too much with all of the skiers, etc.
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Last weekend we headed up American Fork Canyon and took the road UP over Tibble Fork Resv. and went to Silver Lake in the flats area up there, still snow on the hill tops in patches and temp was great. there were people up there but I bet that campground up there will have spots it didnt seem used much. pretty area, the fish were planter trout from shore but my nine year old girl loved it and my wife and 15 year old GIRL loved sunbathing and wading with the dogs tossing the tennis ball a bit and just relaxing out there. it only got to about 80 degrees up there, i know you can not have a fire outside of "improved" camp sites, if you were to pull the trailer up there to the parking lot i dont know if anyone would even know you was there you can buy the three day pass when you go up the canyon for 6 bucks and find a spot to park the trailer, lots of people park trailers up there for going on the ATVs or Horses.
Just a thought... AND its close to SLC where I come from took me 45 minutes to get all the way up the hill to the roads end from Sugarhouse area.
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A little late on the update. Let's just say it was an adventure.
We headed out in the morning on Thursday. We are coming from Stansbury Park and made it to just past Saltaire when I felt a bad vibration. Pulled over and we had thrown a tread on one of my boat trailer tires. Swapped it with the spare and it looked like the sidewall was sagging a bit, though I had aired it up. We decided to head up. Made it to the lake a couple of hours later than planned. The good side is the boat is running better and better each trip.
We trolled around for a while with no bites and hardly anything showing on the finder. After a while we hit the West shore and pitched some lures. My friend quickly caught about a 12" smallmouth, but that was it.
Some more trolling for a while and we marked a couple on the finder at a point on the Northeast end of the lake. We pitched some lures again for a while and came in with a couple of 6" smallies. The wind was getting pretty strong by that point and couldn't hold a position and it was difficult holding a direction trolling.
We headed down to the south end of the lake and marked a few fish on the finder in that area. We finally landed one good rainbow that was around 15-16" on a rapala.
We headed home and made it back to the sugarhouse area when we threw the tread on the spare tire. It still held air so we limped it off and into the Shopko parking lot. Calling the tire shops around there, they said they were closing soon and didn't have anything that could help us. A quick search of KSL found a guy selling new trailer tires on rims. I called him and he was selling for $80 each, and offered to bring them to me and help throw them on for another $30. Well worth it to avoid driving around, etc. $200 later and I have 2 new tires on my trailer.
Not the most successful fishing trip, but it cost a bit.
My next trip will likely be from shore on Mill Meadow since I can't take the camp trailer and boat at the same time.
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