Weird Question

[twinkielk15]

So here's one I really doubt anyone one here has tried but I would be interested to know. There are two reservoirs down near Delta, Utah that I have never fished and I don't know what's in them. The first is Gunnison Bend and the other is DMAD. DMAD is to the north of Delta and Gunnison is to the west. Anyway, I'm just wondering if any of you have ever fished either of them and what your experience was. Thanks.

[humpy]

Not a weird ? But I don't know the answeirr. A little help here.
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[ocean]

The sevier river flows into both waters coming out of yuba. There could be anything from walleyes to cats in those waters. I was just by there yesterday and DMAD has a lot of water in it.I
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[wiperhunter2]

Here is a [url "http://www.waterquality.utah.gov/watersheds/lakes.htm#D"][/url]link to the [url "http://www.waterquality.utah.gov/watersheds/lakes.htm"]DWR site[/url] that tells you about the lakes you are interested in. DMAD has catfish, white bass, carp, walleye and white crappie, according to the site. GUNNISON has smallmouth, bullhead, yellow perch, carp, green sunfish, channel cats, largemouth and bluegill. There is also Gunnison bend that is East of Delta. I have heard there are also Sacramento perch in one of those lakes. I'm sure Tubedude or Fuzzyfisher can give you more info about those lakes. WH2
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[cat_man]

Gunnison Bend also has white bass.
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[morcey2]

Having grown up in Delta and fished that area quite extensively, I'll tell you everything I know. A lot of it will be just an echo of what others have said here.

DMAD has white bass, walleye, channel cats, bullheads, crappie, bluegill, largemouth, smallmouth, perch, Northerns, and an occasional trout that washed down from Oak City canyon.

Gunnison Bend has pretty much the same thing fish, plus Sacramento perch. Gunnison Bend seems to have more stable water levels, but neither are real stable due to irrigation demands.

If you're willing to do some exploring, the river anywhere from Oasis/Deseret upstream to Yuba offers much better fishing than either of the reservoirs. Leamington canyon, IMO, is one of the best unknown fisheries in the state. Just downstream from the cement plant, there's a large pool formed on the north side of a railroad trestle/causeway. I've pulled 4lb+ smallmouth out of there along with some extremely large catfish, walleye, crappie, and white bass. I've even caught a couple of decent-sized browns out of that stretch of the river.

There are lots of carp in the whole stretch, but much fewer in the faster moving portions of the river, mostly above DMAD.

Right below DMAD, the washout pool at the base of the dam has made for some amazing fishing. I took 2 of my seminary teachers there many years ago and one took home a 7-lb walleye and the other took home 2 4lb-ers. In the summer, the river gets pretty low, but the closer you get to gunnison bend, the deeper it gets. For 5-6 miles north of gunnison bend, there's some really good catfish, largemouth, and white bass fishing. It takes a little work, but there are some really deep pools there also. Some of the little oxbow ponds off the sides of the river can have some good-sized largemouth. And if they're not biting, get a gun or a bow and shoot the carp from the top of the cliff! I don't know how many hours I wasted in my youth doing that.

At gunnison bend, the best places to fish that i know of are usually right off the dam. It's fairly deep and not as many canal outlets as in DMAD. If you just want to explore, small silver spinners, silver/blue or gold/black rapalas (small ones), and small rat-l-traps worked well for me, but that's been a while. The most successful method there is to get a 2-pole permit, rig one up with a bobber and a worm about 6-8 feet below it. If you catch a carp, cut a chunk out of the side and fish with that instead. With the other rod, chuck small-ish lures mentioned above.

Almost everyone I know from delta says you can't catch fish there on lures because the water's too dirty. Problem is they're comparing it to Fish Lake water where you can see 70-feet down. It's definitely dirtier than that, but there's still a couple of feet of visibility most of the time. That's where I learned that a good selection of lures will out-fish bait almost every time.

By the time I graduated from high-school, I probably knew that area as well or better than anyone else alive. That's what you get from fishing 3-4 times a week for a couple of years. But that's been a while, so maybe it's changed since then. All this was post-83 and post-flood. I fished out along US-6 for white bass. It was fun, except for the mosquitos.

Matt
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[Nica]

Dude....awesome info. Sure appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
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[cat_man]

Great info, thanks! Just one warning, please don't shoot guns into the water. That is illegal and dangerous. Could ricochet off the surface. Take your bow and have at those carp.
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[morcey2]

[quote cat_man]Great info, thanks! Just one warning, please don't shoot guns into the water. That is illegal and dangerous. Could ricochet off the surface. Take your bow and have at those carp.[/quote]

Yeah. Probably not the smartest kid in the world. It's a good thing I'm much more intelligenter now.

I've always wondered how tiger muskies or wipers would do in those reservoirs. Probably not great without a little more consistent water levels.

Something else I forgot: There are a couple of small ponds just west of the north-south section of the DMAD dam that used to contain some really good-sized bullheads and bluegills. I haven't fished those in a very long time, but it was a good place to go lose a 'skunk'.

Matt.
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[fuzzyfisher]

well morcey2 said it all and alot more than i know of the area.. i have fished the area some years ago! have not fished dmad, gunnison bend or the sevier sinkes for year's, i do how ever have a friend that keeps in touch with me that fish's the area some.. he has said for the last years it's been tuff to get much more then carp out of any of them..

He thinks when the DWR flushed the Yuba toilet that 95% biomass of carp ended up right down stream.. the farmers down stream were useing frount end loaders and back hoe's to try and clear the carp out of the canales and ditchs.. there were so many of them they were stoping the flow of water and pluging pip's..

that's all i know.. and that was what 4 or 5 years ago.. so might have picked up some out that way now.
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[mactuna]

Yes and big ones
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