Maybe this has been discussed and I'm late to the party.
I fished Deer Creek last week and was surprised to see how high the water level was already.
I was kind of hoping to walk out to the Island, like I did last Fall. When I arrived from the North was amazed that it was truly an Island again.
Only thing I can think of is that people in charge are filling Deer Creek first, and then will put Spring run off in Jordanelle.
I'm thinking this is a positive for Deer Creek fish species, especially Perch, that like to spawn in the flooded brush.
Anybody in the know on this?
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How was the catching Crimson? I live in draper and enjoy the short trips there. Been mainly fishing the gorge last two months. I would like to launch but don't want to poison my boat!😱😰
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I fished from shore on the South side of Rainbow bay, and didn't get a bite.
A guy caught one down the shore next to me just after I got there, but he didn't get any more and left soon after.
There were a few boats out fishing, but don't know where they might have launched.
One boat was still fishing in Rainbow near the buoy, and I saw them boat one fish.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
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Thanks for the info and link. It looked about like that, with just a little more to go for full pool.
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Over the past few years Deer Creek will start filling slowly as soon as they shut off the irrigation water release for the winter. I used to get excited thinking that it will make for some great fishing in the spring. The big problem now is that now that they have a big water dump every spring right about when a lot of the fish are going to spawn so that the June Sucker can have better spawning habitat in the river.
This ends up dropping Deer Creek around three or four feet in less than two weeks which either kills anything that has spawned and hasn't hatched or make any spawning that happens later is in less than optimal conditions so that anything that does hatch has almost nowhere to hide to grow.
About the only thing that is going to help the perch fishing in the currant water operations is high snow packs for a few years back to back to get the water that everybody the water that they want.
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Yes, I was afraid it was too good to be true that the water was so high even though the snowpack hasn't been great this year.
Wishful thinking that the Perch spawn might get a boost this year.
Hope this is a cycle that will end soon and get back to some great water years for local waters and especially Lake Powell.
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Unfortunately the last few years have really been a bummer for "warm water" species in dc.
Water has been too low. I can only imagine what it's going to be like this summer and fall-it'll be a puddle.
They've dropped it so fast the last few years you can literally watch it drop right before your eyes while fishing.
The carp aren't helping either. I think they suck up everything in there. I'd hate to be a juvi minnow in there without any cover. The smb fair ok in the rocks hiding but the lmb are sucking it up.
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