04-13-2003, 12:13 AM
I am just a scoash 
so maybe someone or heck a lot of you can help me out on this. I for one get tired of standard cookie cutter answer that use I use to buy into years ago but no more.
I am going to use I-70 as a boundary between North and South for this question if you do not mind.
I have spent most of my life in Southern Utah, which have a great diversity as many as you know but I think the diversity almost stops with scenic beauty. Here is an example I was looking at the F&G web site [url "http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/basswaters.html"][#800080]http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/basswaters.html[/#800080][/url] so I have all my ducks in a row. This site tells what water has bass in it, there is five waters listed south of I-70, and as far as I know, only a couple of those have large mouth the rest is smallies.
Johnson Reservoir has some Tiger Muskie, which is a nice addition, and the lake just to the south has some perch in it, the lake I am referring to is Fish Lake. (All those perch are stunted) Gunlock has some crappie, and Enterprise might be stocked with crappie. I have counted 32 lakes listed in the proclamation for Southern Utah [url "http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/weeklyreports.html#s"][#800080]http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/weeklyreports.html#s[/#800080][/url] excluding all the lakes on Boulder Mountain, out all these lakes I dare say less than 2% of these lakes have something else in them besides trout. Don’t get me wrong I love hooking into a nice brookies ( I know the char family) on the Boulders. But their eliminating some of those lakes to put another trout in called Cut Throat, but why in the heck do all of these lakes South of I-70, have to trout? I have vented this many times before but why is it I have to travel clear to Yuba to catch a walleye.
Why is it that only Northern Utah waters are suitable for walleye, wipers, white bass ect? Where as Southern waters can only support all these hybrid trout and not other species?
Another example is I have to drive to Utah Lake to catch a white bass, since there is no water closer that has this species.
All I am asking is give us a little more variety in Southern Utah than trout to catch. Heck if we are going to make two lakes within an hrs drive of us “Trophy Fisheries” make some other lakes around us more available to another diverse fishing species.
Like I said, I just do not understand why you up North have all this available to you and we do not. Maybe it is different water type but I say it is management type; I have nothing against our local fish biologists I think they are great men but I think we could do things different here.
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so maybe someone or heck a lot of you can help me out on this. I for one get tired of standard cookie cutter answer that use I use to buy into years ago but no more. I am going to use I-70 as a boundary between North and South for this question if you do not mind.
I have spent most of my life in Southern Utah, which have a great diversity as many as you know but I think the diversity almost stops with scenic beauty. Here is an example I was looking at the F&G web site [url "http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/basswaters.html"][#800080]http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/basswaters.html[/#800080][/url] so I have all my ducks in a row. This site tells what water has bass in it, there is five waters listed south of I-70, and as far as I know, only a couple of those have large mouth the rest is smallies.
Johnson Reservoir has some Tiger Muskie, which is a nice addition, and the lake just to the south has some perch in it, the lake I am referring to is Fish Lake. (All those perch are stunted) Gunlock has some crappie, and Enterprise might be stocked with crappie. I have counted 32 lakes listed in the proclamation for Southern Utah [url "http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/weeklyreports.html#s"][#800080]http://www.wildlife.utah.gov/fishing/weeklyreports.html#s[/#800080][/url] excluding all the lakes on Boulder Mountain, out all these lakes I dare say less than 2% of these lakes have something else in them besides trout. Don’t get me wrong I love hooking into a nice brookies ( I know the char family) on the Boulders. But their eliminating some of those lakes to put another trout in called Cut Throat, but why in the heck do all of these lakes South of I-70, have to trout? I have vented this many times before but why is it I have to travel clear to Yuba to catch a walleye.
Why is it that only Northern Utah waters are suitable for walleye, wipers, white bass ect? Where as Southern waters can only support all these hybrid trout and not other species?
Another example is I have to drive to Utah Lake to catch a white bass, since there is no water closer that has this species.
All I am asking is give us a little more variety in Southern Utah than trout to catch. Heck if we are going to make two lakes within an hrs drive of us “Trophy Fisheries” make some other lakes around us more available to another diverse fishing species.
Like I said, I just do not understand why you up North have all this available to you and we do not. Maybe it is different water type but I say it is management type; I have nothing against our local fish biologists I think they are great men but I think we could do things different here.
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