Northern Pike at Utah Lake AF Harbor

[Therapist]

Was down at AF Harbor the other day and ran into 3 folks from DWR.  They were setting nets to capture Northern Pike.  They had caught a couple around Provo Boat Harbor and were checking out the AF Harbor area.  Learned from Chris Chrockett  the next day that they were unsuccessful in the netting that day.  To bad!!

I also learned that AF Harbor will be closed starting in August so they can REDO the whole thing !!  WOO HOO!!!  As such they are not selling yearly passes for the harbor. BOOOOO!!

ALSO !!  Saratoga Springs City has started work on a new Park/Marina at the South end of 2300 West.  There was a private ramp there that has been closed off by the Feds for the last 5 years.  Saratoga Springs aquired the land and are putting in a new Marina and  Park.  A much needed addition to the north end of the lake !!  No idea of how long the construction will be.  Right now they are dredging the lake for the marina.  Appears the construction will be similar to the Pelican Point marina with a ramp, rock berms to form the harbor and amenities.  Looking forward to this !!!

[Fritzfishin]

Hopefully they can keep the new marina cleaned out unlike the other Saratoga park marina. They need to figure out that silt issue

[Therapist]

If you are referring to the Pelican Point Marina, it has a huge outlet in the North West Corner where water is let out ( pump I believe). The bottom of Utah Lake is so fluid that any outlet to the lake acts as a vacuum for the silt. So as water runs out of the lake through the culvert, it sucks silt from the main lake with it. AF learned this back in the mid 80's. They purchased a dredge to dredge AF harbor, but all they did was suck silt from the main lake into the harbor. Provo Harbor has this same problem ! They dredge the channel along the north jetty to provide a boat channel from the inner harbor out to the lake. That channel has to be dredged every 8 years or so as the silt from the main lake flows in to the harbor and fills the channel up. Main reason why all these idiots who want to dredge the lake and build islands are so full of bovine scatology. The lake will flow into the hole they dig faster than they can dig it !!!