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Jordan River
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03-06-2004, 01:28 AM
I've been wondering, Is there anything worth fishing for in the Jordan besides catfish, and if so, what advice could you give on taking them?
Any info is apprieciated Thanks [signature]
03-06-2004, 01:36 AM
Jeeze, you've got walleye, white bass, rainbows, browns, LM bass, blue gills, perch. All within salt lake. Fish for whities and walleyes around where the other valley streams run in, with white bass meat and worms on little silver gitzits, fished slow. The bass, blue gills and perch are where you find them. I've caught all the above just down stream of 33rd south. The trout are also concentrated in the same areas. Around 45th south, I've caught some browns that were 5+lbs. Don't forget the carp and suckers, either. With some white bread on a treble they can be funer fighters than any other game fish in the state.
Oh yeah, almost forgot! Welcome to the site!!! [signature]
03-06-2004, 01:42 AM
Hey, Thanks a bunch I needed somewhere local to fish and now i can show my buddies whose better
Thanks Again [signature]
03-06-2004, 01:52 AM
Glad I could be of some help! It takes some getting used to, but the fish in the jordan get pretty easy to catch after a while. Just move till you get bites, then camp on that spot. The spot I've been fishing I found only last year, and I've caught just about everything you can imagine out of it. And also, I wouldn't recomend fishing it for about 2-3 weeks. I was just down there with 5 of my friends, and only one fish all day.
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03-06-2004, 03:26 PM
Hey Jensenkid15,
Do you just bounce the jig along the bottom? Ive tried the jordan many times for panfish but always got bullheads, suckers, rainbows, or carp. Is there something I'm missing? Or are the fish not there? I usually fish near 106th or 90th south. The bridge on 90th has some of the biggest rainbows Ive ever seen. I may just have to go down and "hone" my skills soon. Anthony [signature]
03-06-2004, 05:59 PM
I'd recomend heading north for some slacker water. Yeah, all I do is bounce the jigs. The bass, gills and perch might not like the faster water. The eye's should be there now, for the spawning run. Also, when I really got into the fish last year there were bait fish all over in the water. I'd look for movement by the fish. Some of the walleyes and whities were actually "boiling" the water. When they did that, I got into everything.
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03-07-2004, 03:54 AM
[cool]Hey Jensenkid15, I live right by the river. In fact, I think if my deck on my condo had a little more room, I could throw a baseball into the river I'm so close! Right in the 39th south area, and that's all I'm gonna say about location.
Since I live so close, I've thought about fishing it quite often, 'cause I know there must be some MONSTER Channel Cats in there, but then I'm reminded of an article I read the summer before the Olympics ('01) in the Deseret News. It was a feature story on the Jordan and this dude from the D-news took a reporter from National Geographic in a canoe down it 'cause the dude from NG was gonna do a feature enviremental story on it in preperation for the olympics. Anyway, long story short, the article in the D-news stated that they saw over two hundred drain pipes coming from shopping plazas, dry cleaners etc. that drain all kinds of chemical and pollutant crap into the river. So, ever since then I've wondered about what kind of chemicals and toxins are in those fish, ya know?[pirate] I know that there is no warnings from the DWR or State Health Dept. but should there be???? That is why I haven't fished it yet. I guess I could catch and release??[:/] Does Sensai TubeDude or anybody else in the know care to elaborate on this? I've only lived in Utah for 7 years, so maybe I'm just a little paranoid about it. Please comment fellas! ][signature]
03-07-2004, 04:20 AM
lets hope its not to pollluted as its yours and mine drinking water
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03-07-2004, 04:29 AM
Seriously? I was under the impression that drinking water was pulled out way upstream.
When I was growing up in Lehi the entire city was on well water. My parents just got notice the other day that this won't be the case for their neighborhood anymore. Too bad....it was the best water anywhere. [signature]
03-07-2004, 04:33 AM
honestely i not 100% sure where the water is pulled out from but i do know there is a pump at 1700 S.
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03-07-2004, 04:34 AM
You sure about that? I thought it came out of Big Cottonwood, Little Cottonwood, and Mill Creek's. Also from the reservoirs up in the canyons like little Dell, Echo, etc. That's why there are those signs that say "culinary water supply, please keep dogs on a leash and keep out of the stream" or something like that. I think they release treated sewer down the Jordan, so I sure won't drink that water!
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03-07-2004, 04:40 AM
well i could very well be wrong thats what i heard from someone somewhere though wait me wrong ?......once i thouht i was wrong but i was mistaken LMAO
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03-07-2004, 05:50 AM
I know that years ago my dad worked there at jordan meats as a butcher and he said that they used to put all the wastewater in the river but the EPA put an end to that back in the late 60's . Dad said that when they would dump waste water in there from the floors of that meat packing plant the cats would get big enough to eat small children LOL.
one of his stories was while he was working night shift there he was walking to his car after work and it was dark, as the moon shined off the water he seen a catfish somewhat beached as it was going for some meat scraps. he didn't get a good enough look at it to see exact size but he swears that it was 4' if it was an inch. he said he's never been afraid of a fish before in his life but that night with limited visability he had a moment of fear. I fish the jordan also and I dont think theres a problem with contaminated water (I'll agree its not the cleanest water I've seen). I dont think theres any drinking water that comes from it but I know that alot of cullinary systems use it to water golf courses and public parks. I believe that pump station on 1700s is what feeds raging waters also. DZ [signature]
03-07-2004, 05:55 PM
I just ate walleye with ronda last night, and I don't think were glowing in the dark-yet![
] I don't see any problem with eating the fish out of there. Only if there's any kind of advisory, like when raw sewedge was dumped down the mill creek and into the jordan about 2 years ago. Feel safe in fishing it. Heck, I met a hobo last year that drank the water from the jordan and never got sick.[signature]
03-08-2004, 11:13 PM
I think Magna gets the Jordan River water.[laugh]Ha Just kidding.
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03-08-2004, 11:31 PM
they do put treated sewage in the river, in fact i used to fish right where it comes in at... really good hole... it comes in between 7800 and 7000 but that is when i used to live in west jordan.. caught some nice fish out of that hole...
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03-09-2004, 08:14 PM
Some kind of treatment plant dumps somthing into Millcreek (about 3000S. and 900W.) right before it enters the Jordan.
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03-09-2004, 08:55 PM
Hey guys,
The #1 source of water in the Salt Lake valley is Deer Creek/Provo River. Then there are the smaller canyon streams Like Little and Big Cottonwood, Millcreek and Parleys. Apart from that most cities have their own wells that provide varying percentages of each systems water. I don't think anyone drinks water from the Jordan right now because it tastes too bad, although it can be done if necessary. Lots of water from the Jordan and its auxiliary canals is used for irrigation. FM [signature] |
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