12-08-2022, 03:06 PM
(12-08-2022, 02:54 PM)dubob Wrote: If you REALLY want to catch some big bluegills, you may want to consider going to Blue Lake just south of Wendover near the Utah/Nevada border. I used to work for a company that required 6 or more trips a year to Wendover. I would occasionally drive to Blue lake and fly fish it for 'gills in the evenings after work. I once kept 15 of them for a friend in Wendover and they weighed 18 pounds total. This was in the summer time, but it never freezes becaus it is warm spring fed.Evidently been awhile since you fished it. Still bass and bluegills...but also tilapia, pacu and some other "exotics" introduced by the skin diving contingent. In short, between a lot of competition for limited food resources and heavy harvest by the Wendover working staff the numbers and sizes are down on everything.
