New Member / Huntington and Cleveland Reservoir Report (5/20)

[MacroGuru]

Greetings Everyone,

Just moved back to Utah from Western New York (been gone for 8 years). Up in WNY I fished a ton of streams because every lake has private cottages and very limited public access, oh and I don't have a boat.

So getting back into the Utah swing, I have a fished a ton a rivers around here and the stand by's of Utah Lake, Deer Creek, Strawberry and Scofield.

Wanting to branch out I looked at a few things and decided on Huntington and Cleveland Reservoirs. (Shore Fishing)

We pulled into Huntington at 7 am, No one around it was a balmy 35 outside, the lake was glass and the fish were quite active as we could see them surface every where. We were fishing with Crawlers from top and bottom. We were there for about 2 hours and nothing, they would nibble, take the worm, let it go, but nothing solid.

We decided to move over to Cleveland. Again, glass and active fish. We toss out the first pole (Bobber with a crawler about 12 inches) and I was rigging the second to go from the bottom up (Crawler with Marshmellow) as I am working on that my girlfriend freaks that the bobber is gone and tugs, landing her first ever fish and it's a nice rainbow. (16 inches about 1 1/2 pounds)

I then get set up and toss the bottom one out and it starts seeing action almost immediately. We then land our second ans last one for the day. (12 inch deformed rainbow that had someones treble inside from a previous catch)

Then the wind kicked up and blew out the lake. We moved all over the lake and we didn't get another nibble.

We sat there for the rest of the day trying our hardest to get something.
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[jjannie]

welcome to the site MG and welcome back to Utah. Good to hear the fish welcomed you back as well.

[MacroGuru]

Thanks,

Last week we went to Strawberry and caught only 1 from the shore over at Chicken Creek.

But it is definitely a blast.
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[albinotrout]

Welcome to BFT! Sounds like a good day.
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[spencerD]

I fish Huntington a lot. The tigers are notoriously picky and harder to pick up on a worm, at least in my experience (some folks do real well with them, though).

The best thing you can do up there, that I've found, has been black or white wooly buggers. Even if you don't fly fish, throwing them on the end of a spinning rod can work, you just need to use a slower retrieve. The tigers outta there are, in my opinion, some of the best in the state. They fight hard and taste delicious.
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[Jedidiah]

Tigers have more aggression than browns. I had a tiger follow my emerald shiner up an ice hole and snag it 6 inches from the surface once. Fishing a rapala, Gulp! minnow, preserved minnow or some other minnow imitating lure is good for big tigers.
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[gofish435]

First of all, welcome to the forum. Thanks for the report on a couple of my favorite waters.

That is one of the nice things about fishing this area, the lakes/reservoirs are not far apart and offer and angler a lot of options.

There are some good fish in Mammoth but my experience has been that it usually takes a few weeks after ice off for the water to clear and the fish to get active. I fish from a tube but the majority of the fish that I catch from there are within casting distance from shore. Another thing I've found is the tigers don't seem to be interested in anything that is sitting still. That is why most folks have a hard time catching them on bait, especially as the water warms and there is more of their natural food available.

Cleveland is good for some healthy rainbows and cutthroats when there has been good water levels going into winter. There are usually some fish that have carried over that will be pushing two to four pounds.

Keep those reports coming in.[]
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[albinotrout]

Any good forest service campgrounds in the vicinity of those two lakes?
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[gofish435]

There is a small campground at Cleveland Reservoir, maybe six or eight spots but I don't think there is any water.

There is another campground on the Miller Flat road that is in between Cleveland and Mammoth that is much larger.

There is a campground near Gooseberry Reservoir also. There is also dispersed camping at various places near Mammoth and Miller Flat Reservoir.

This early in the year some of the places are still going to be muddy but there are a lot of options for camping in the area.
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[albinotrout]

Thanks: may have to do it later next month. Haul the trailer up and pull the tube out.
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[MacroGuru]

[quote gofish435]There is a small campground at Cleveland Reservoir, maybe six or eight spots but I don't think there is any water.

There is another campground on the Miller Flat road that is in between Cleveland and Mammoth that is much larger.

There is a campground near Gooseberry Reservoir also. There is also dispersed camping at various places near Mammoth and Miller Flat Reservoir.

This early in the year some of the places are still going to be muddy but there are a lot of options for camping in the area.[/quote]

We stopped and checked out the campgrounds at Cleveland, they were rustic sites, $5 a nite and you were packing your gear from the parking lot to the tent sites, to me it would be perfect.

I travel for a living and right now my days off are Monday, Tuesday, Weds so I don't think we will have to worry to much about running into people when we go out fishing.
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[skidmarximus88]

Have you ventured over to Electric much? I'm thinking about heading up there, any advice you be awesome on what to use and where to fish.
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[happybob91]

Another good lake to try is Gooseberry Reservoir. Ditto on what everyone else said about tigers in Huntington, but along with woolly buggers, gold panther martins seem to work well. I plan on fishing that area this coming Friday. Thanks for the report!
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