Question on Fishing Law for Logan River

[tidejwe]

I read the law/regulation in the new Fishing Guide and it says:

LOGAN RIVER (Cache County)
(a) From Card Canyon Bridge upstream to the highway bridge at Red Banks Campground, including all tributary streams in between:
Trout and whitefish (in aggregate) limit 2.•
ARTIFICIAL FLIES AND LURES ONLY.•
(b) From the highway bridge at Red Banks Campground
upstream to Idaho state line, including all tributaries:
CLOSED January 1 through 6 a.m. on the • second Saturday of July (12th).
Trout and whitefish (in aggregate) limit 2. •

Does anyone know where Card Canyon Bridge is, or Red Banks Campground? I am trying to find out if it is OK to fish at 1st, 2nd and 3rd Dam this time of year and what parts of the Logan river it applies to. I live in Logan, and I don't know where on earth those places are and am having trouble running searches to find them. I am guessing it's probably referring to the river closer to the Bear Lake area (somewhere past 3rd dam), especially since I was fishing at 1st dam earlier this year already (January or February) when a game warden checked our licenses but didn't care that we were fishing, and either didn't pay attention, or didn't care that we were using bait. This leads me to BELIEVE it must be somewhere past 3rd dam (I hope). I'd just like to be sure because nobody I know has a clue where it's talking about in the above description.

Also, I'm new to this board! I live in Logan, and I visit Kaysville (Davis County) really often and go fishing a lot in areas in between and relatively nearby. Hopefully I can contribute.
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[fishyfishyfish]

Red banks is quite a way north up the canyon.... I cant remember if its just before or just after the ski resort, either way fishing at the dams is perfectly legal.
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[drpepper]

I beleive the card canyon bridge is right at the upper end of third dam and crosses the river into a campground.
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[garbageman]

card canyon bridge is above all the dams. red banks
is above temple fork, a couple of miles downstream from the beaver mountain turnoff.
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[biggfish12]

Card Canyon is just up the road from the from the LDS Girls camp road turn off. Red Banks is the campground right after the Tony Grove turn off. The soil on the hill side above the campground is red.
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[fishcopalien]

All three dams are below Card. The Card Bridge leads to the Card summer home sites and the archery range. A Forest Service Guard station is also located at this site and would be on your left while the bridge would be on your right (as you head up canyon). Red Banks is a couple of miles below Franklin Basin and a couple miles up from the Tony Grove turnoff. If you look for White Pine Creek on a map, the bridge/campground is just below where the stream enters the Logan River.
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[tidejwe]

Excellent. Thanks for the responses everyone. I've never tried to fish in the river past 3rd dam. The laws make it sound like they banned a certain season due to spawning and that there could possible be some good fishing up there. Has anyone fished in that area before and found luck? What did you use, where were you?

I Fished at 1st 2nd and 3rd dam yesterday...we got a few bites, but never actually landed any.


1st dam is tricky, just North of the highway I've seen several decent sized trout for Logan River (1lbs or so), but I can't ever get the ones there to bite anything no matter what I've tried or what time of day.

2nd dam is similar, but I catch them there once in a while, usually with powerbait or brownish fly looking lures with gold or silver metal pieces attached.

3rd dam is usually pretty good right by the dam, but most of the fish are between 9-12 ounces. Occasionally we get one a bit bigger, but most of the time they're about 10-11 ounce rainbows. Usually the fly looking spinners work well. A LOT of people I've met up there use hamburger (I met a guy last year that caught over 50 fish in just a few hrs with it). Is hamburger legal to use? I guess it would be...I just have red meat power bait anyway. The albino trout are hard to catch, they nibble a lot, but it's relatively rare for them to ever get landed, it's kind of funny. I see a lot of brown/brook trout but they never bite either. Any suggestions for them?
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[garbageman]

In the past i've done well up there with a wd40 or a bead headed prince nymph. just let it drift with the current. later in the summer my fly of choice is a lime trude. There used to be a fly shop just west of the highway in hyde park. they have those flies there, and plenty of good information.
Good luck!
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[lundfun]

I used to live near Logan and fished the river several times a week in the summer. The key to catching fish in the reservoirs is to use 2-lb.-test line. Don't use a sinker or a bobber, just a No. 12 or No. 14 salmon egg hook baited with a single salmon egg. With the right rod and reel, you should be able to cast this quite a ways. Let the egg sink naturally, and if there are fish, you'll usually catch them. In the spring, after runoff starts, I used to do well with a water-filled casting bobber sliding on the line with a swivel and three feet of leader on the tag end. I would bait a No. 6 bait hook with a nightcrawler, sometimes using a single split shot, and then I would cast quartering upstream, let the rig sink to the bottom, and then bounce it along until I got a hit. In the summertime you can catch some nice browns in all three reservoirs. There are browns in the five to eight pound range in all three dams. I've seen some over 10 pounds. There aren't many, and they're wary. The best way I've found to hook them is to use a Rapala type lure right at dark. I would cast into the reservoir and draw the lure up directly into the current. I also had a great time catching whitefish, and there are a lot of nice ones in all three impoundments. The bigger fish are in the three to four pound range, but there are a lot of two-pounders. The easiest way to catch them is with aquatic insect larvae, either rock-rollers pulled out of their shell or hellgramites. Again, use 2-lb.-test line and small hooks. You'll need a soft rod tip and super sharp small hooks. I'll usually use a tiny split shot when I'm after whitefish. The same technique works well in the Blacksmith Fork River, too.
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[packfish]

Fish the light line- small split shot and fish with the may fly nymphs under the rocks or rock rollers. Now you may catch whitefsih 5 to 1 over trout this way but you will catch fish on the Logan.
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[lavaman]

"[font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1] In the past i've done well up there with a wd40"

Is this legal or no? Just wondering. Anyone know?
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[packfish]

You can catch fish witrh out the Wd40 Lava man- I know you can. []
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[lavaman]

I can catch fish with my bare hands if I needed to...I never pack along the WD40.
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[packfish]

Bare hands are illegal- next you'll say you are catching them with computer paper boxes. []
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[lavaman]

Xerox boxes, data center boxes, M-80's, it doesn't matter. As long as I get me a few June Suckers in the process
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[garbageman]

[blush] I Meant wd40 as in the very small fly. not the lubricant..... silly me. Any small flies with a little bit of flash to them with a red or brown body has produced well for me on the logan.
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[packfish]

I knew- I was just giving some crap to Lava man- all in good humor.
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[garbageman]

I know. I'm just givin crap back. I've been gone for a while. glad to see the fun has returned to the board.[]
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[packfish]

Just watching Lavaman fish will make you laugh []
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