Deer Creek 12/14/11

[FishCop75]

Wanted to fish the open water today, so my bro-in-law and I decided to try Deer Creek instead of the Berry. It was a beautiful day with a little wind. We fished the shore just above the dam, which the TyeDye's turned me on to a few weeks back. Between the two of us, we landed seven of twelve. We kept five and released or "DOH!"ed the rest. Glad to get out for one of the few, late, open water trips left to be had.

Any comments on the color difference in these five 'bows? "One of these fish is doin' his own thing!"
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[flygoddess]

NICE! Is it just the picture or are most their tails wore down?
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[LurkinLizard]

[quote flygoddess]NICE! Is it just the picture or are most their tails wore down?[/quote]

A lot of what I've caught recently at DC are some of the 70,000 planters they put in there last month, so I'd imagine these may be the same, so that could explain the fin erosion.
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[big_griggs]

nice bows I drove by yesterday and was looking at where you were fishing and were did you park? I have to getup there again.
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[CROSSINEYES]

myself and utwalleye took his smoker craft out the 13th only us and the old boys on the lake all day. snowed bigtime for hrs but the slimers were hitting. we were hunting for walleye locations moore than fishing marking then saving on gps the bigger schools. we found a few under water springs 1 in 41 ft stacked with fish heavy... come on ice now...
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[EvilTyeDyeTwin]

Nice to see you got some fish in that spot we told you about. I was gonna hit that beach on monday but got distracted by the lower provo river. The trout with spots on his head was likely a spawner. Each one we got that had colors like that would milt or drop eggs the second we got them out of the water. Thanks for your post.
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[FishCop75]

I agree with LL on the fin erosion. I think most of what I've caught up there the last two times I went were the recent planters.

As far as parking Griggs, if you're coming from Provo, there is a turnoff on the left side of the road just before you go over the dam. Follow the road a couple hundred yards and you'll find a nice big parking lot for the Provo/Jordan river trail. Park the car and follow the trail past the dam along the Heber Creeper railroad tracks. I'm echoing what the TyeDye twins told me a couple weeks ago here, which turned out to be some stellar info. Follow the trail for maybe a half mile from the parking lot, out to the buoys beyond the dam. Fishing between the dam and the buoys is prohibited, and there are no trespassing signs to reiterate this.(Although the first time I went, there were about five or six guys who didn't seem to care and were fishing right next to the dam, even on the cement wall. Didn't see them catching anything so I'm not sure why they were all fishing there in a group. Not worth the risk of a fine or losing my fishing privileges if you ask me.) When you get to the buoys, there are a couple semi steep trails down to the shore. Be careful if there is snow, I'm sure it could get pretty slick with the grade of the slope there. Hope this helps. Oh, and one other tidbit they passed on to me that has helped, use a gold kastmaster. I've been using a 1/4 oz. perch colored kastmaster(which is mostly gold). The fish seem to love it, and it casts great, even in the wind.

TyeDye, I thought the same thing about the darker trout being a spawner, especially because of the jaw being so much bigger than the others. I caught that one on a white tube jig tipped with a crawler under a bobber. The wind was blowing the bobber from our right to left so we'd cast 'em out and watch 'em drift and bounce on the waves until we got a hit. We only caught a couple like that, but it was fun.

I should be making one more trip to that spot on Saturday. Got a friend coming in from Idaho to try some Utah fishing.
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[Fowl-Hook]

How do you identify a spring in 40 + feet of water.
I usually just fall through the thin Ice and conclude it must be caused from a spring!![cool]
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