Uintas: Mirror Lake Highway

[TroutMan93]

Decided to go for a little scouting/fishing trip up Mirror Lake Highway. The Provo is running high and turbid, but not dirty. Drove past the Road Closed sign to take a peek at some lakes. The turnoff to Trial and Washington is snowed in. Teapot, Lily and Lost has some rotting ice. Shouldn't be too long before those waters open up. Fished the Provo and Beaver Creek with only a few hits on a pine squirrel leech.
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[wiperhunter2]

Thanks for posting your report and pics TM93. I'm glad to read there is still some snow pack left in the mountains, with the temp they are forecasting this week some of it should start melting soon. Have you ever caught any Grayling up along the Mirror lake highway?
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[johnnycake]

I take it the turn off to Mirror Lake is also snowed in? How's the ice on Mirror?
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[TroutMan93]

The only place I'm willing to tell that I've caught grayling is at Trial Lake last year. I've found a small pond that I believe has a sustaining population of grayling and Brooks. Way too small for a crowd to be there. But the grayling that I have caught from Trial have been long but skinny.
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[TroutMan93]

Sorry, I didn't go up that far. But I bet it's still snowed in just like Trial was and probably has a good amount of safe ice on it. But I could be wrong just my prediction.
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[wiperhunter2]

They are stocking so many grayling that a friend told me a year or two back that he was staring to catch them in that river that runs along the mirror lake highway, just up from Bear River Service. Seems like the only way to catch them years ago was to walk in several miles to get to them, I guess things are a changing.
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[FishingLunatic]

uintas still at 120+% snow pack for the year...one of the only places in utah this year. Should be a great year.
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[albinotrout]

Ran up through wyoming friday. Noticed lots of snow still up high in the Uintas. The river is flowing pretty high too right now.
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[brookieguy1]

Even in the driest years the Uintas don't seem to suffer much. The lakes (the natural ones) only seem to fluctuate a few inches from year to year. It's our southern alpine lakes that really take a beating in drought years.
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[FishingLunatic]

Yea probably cause there isn't dams and humans regulating them. On high water years farmers and people use more water than normal which really contributes to our low water level problem with many regulated lakes/reservoirs.
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