fishing in southern utah???

[guppyslayer]

a company in St George has made me an offer for a position with their company. I currently live in the SLC area and really like it here.
What are the fishing opportunities down south? And are the popular spots usually very crowded?

just trying to consider all options at this point

cyas
rc

[fish4fish]

If you are into bass fishing you would be set, the have gunlock, quail creek, and sand hollow all close to st. george, plus others. But some of them tend to get crowded
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[guppyslayer]

same here...i've moved from back east to CA (sacto), Oregon, New Mexico and now the Salt Lake area..all for the same line of work.
The offer is a decent one. I'm not sure that i want to trade the snow for hot summers tho...but i HAVE to have fishin opportunities...lol...strange priority for some maybe, but not for me. I'm divorced and single so i can go wherever i want to. The fishin opportunities were non-existant in NM and now that i can fish again here in the SLC area..i don't want to give that up.
I'm not set on any type of fishin either. I do love trout fishin...which i did a lot of in OR in small rivers and high mountain lakes. Back east...in TN i did a lot of mostly catfishing with some wading in small streams for black bass (some folks called them red-eye locally) and small mouth. I haven't owned a boat in many years, so for now i still trudge along the shore with my boxer running around somewhere in the area..lol

thanks for the input
rc

[Bigfishrule]

Quail has some nice rainbows (too ten #s) in it also. In the heat of the summer they are deep but they come shallow in the cooler months. Quail is managed as a tropky bass fishery and the fingerling rainbows are put in there as food for the big bass. The ones that dont get gobbled up, put on some decent weight. I usually make a trip down in January and again in Febuary to get away from the snow. I drag the boat down and target these nice rainbows. They bass fishing is slow at this time but I manage to catch a few. There is also a population of Bluegill in this water.
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[acey]

If you don't mind driving a ways there are lots of lakes north of St. George. Enterprise lakes, Newcastle, Yankee Meadows, Kolob, Navajo, Panguitch and probably others. As someone else said there is Gunlock, Sand Hollow, and Quail Creek closer to St. George, Lake Mead and Powell with a few more hours of driving. Lots of Luck. Acey
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[FishN2Dmax]

I'd be all over that offer!!! I just came back from hunting for 2nd home in the St. George area. WOW, not only is the climate HOT, the housing market is really hot. Its a sellers market right now in the 100-300 range. I've decided to build new as it might actually be cheaper ( sweat equity).

Last Saturday I watched at least 20 bass boats coming off of Quail and about the same amount over on Sand Hollow. Must have been some sort of tourney going on? Fishing seems to be really good based a few guys I talked to at the Dam. I personally like to go up to Baker dam ( 15 minutes North of St. George) and fish for trout in the streams around Pine Valley. No shortage of fishing opportunities in Southern Utah! You're challenge is going to be finding a reasonable price on a home down there! The Las-Vegas housing boom has made its way to St. George. Make sure you and / or your company takes this into consideration the recent inflation in home prices before you commit. Have your company HR department contact any realtor down there and they'll verify what I'm telling you! It's insane right now!!![pirate]
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