fishin' moab?

[acey]

Years ago I went with some Varsity Scouts for our summer camp to Moab. We camped along a stream flowing off the mountain into Ken's Lake. It was cold water off the snow pack on the mountain. The scouts swam and played in a waterfall up on the hill. We fished Ken's several times while there along the dike on the south side and at the inlet. We caught rainbow trout and bluegill. The bluegills were hitting the powerbait we had rigged floating from an egg sinker for the trout. One guy said he used a cigarette butt on a bare hook under a bobber and caught lots of bluegill. They were hitting about anything that day. When the dike was constructed and the reservoir built it was planned to be a warmwater fishery with bass. They built structures out of tires and put on the bottom for somewhere for the fish to go. The water they diverted to feed the lake is so cold that the bass never did real well and I don't there are many left if any at all. To get to the lake go south from Moab on the main highway toward Monticello about three or four miles and there is a dirt road that turns off to the left. Follow it about a mile to the lake. From the highway you should be able to see the rock dike. We floated down the Colorado one day on rafts, but I didn't really try fishing it. It was real high when we were there and muddy and dirty. Acey
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