02-10-2021, 08:44 PM
Here is a strange story. Around three years ago, everyone was catching walleye in Utah Lake. Just drive the state park at dusk and there were rows of people lining up, catching walleye. This was sometime in April. I worried at time time that the walleye in Utah Lake were going to be like the buffalo ca. 1865. Most people thought that was a silly worry.
Maybe it was, and maybe I'm just not smart enough to find the walleye, but I have not only not caught a walleye in Utah Lake since, but I haven't even seen a walleye caught since. I don't know what has been different. It seems to me like they are gone. But maybe I don't understand the spawn well enough, or else have missed it, or something like that. I also hear rumors from time to time that a similar event happens at the Provo's mouth in Deer Creek, but have never timed that right, either.
In general I find walleye much more elusive than bass and trout, but that may be that I didn't grow up fishing for them.
Maybe it was, and maybe I'm just not smart enough to find the walleye, but I have not only not caught a walleye in Utah Lake since, but I haven't even seen a walleye caught since. I don't know what has been different. It seems to me like they are gone. But maybe I don't understand the spawn well enough, or else have missed it, or something like that. I also hear rumors from time to time that a similar event happens at the Provo's mouth in Deer Creek, but have never timed that right, either.
In general I find walleye much more elusive than bass and trout, but that may be that I didn't grow up fishing for them.