Deercreek instead of UL

[bamffisher1]

Thanks to the green slime in UL I went to Deer Creek with a friend on Thursday and caught a few small smallies. Could not locate any larger ones. Any day fishing is a Grear day. Anyone know where on deer Creek are the larger Smallies? [fishon]
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]About the only large smallmouth your will find in Deer Creek will be between the unicorns and the sasquatch. Just about as common. Anything over about 14 inches is pretty rare.
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[bamffisher1]

thank you are there any lakes close that have larger smallies?
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]Pineview has plenty of quality fish...if you can avoid the power squadron this time of year. Early in the morning on weekdays can be worth a try...or after Labor Day. Good fall fishing.

Starvation is a little further but has numbers of smallies with some decent ones. Biggest are probably in Pineview.
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[Jiggy81]

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=40678425...g-accident

I wouldn't go to Pineview right now it seems to be a haven for drunk boaters who go fast. I'm sure there are accidents that happen all the time at other lakes but the ones that make it in the news are in pineview..
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]I have loved fishing Pineview, going back to the 1970s. In those days it was crappies and largemouths...with an occasional "pizza-side" rainbow (anchor worms). No perch, no smallies and no tiger muskies.

Fishing was almost always good...from spring to ice fishing and everything in between. Tons of nice crappies and lots of largies up to 6#. But even though there were not as many skiers and wake boarders then, there were still plenty of power wackos. I once actually got overrun...if not run over...by a group of boaters surrounding one towing a topless female water skier. NOBODY was watching ahead of them...and a couple of those boats literally bounced off the side of my tube. You might say everybody was "seeing double"...and not watching out for trouble. I left a warm spot in the water as I kicked off in the other direction.

I have a theory that in addition to paying a launch fee at Pineview, boaters also have to leave half their brains as a deposit.

The launch fees they charge...even for launching a float tube this time of year...are outrageous. By October there is no launch fee and far fewer boats. Oh yeah, the fall fishing can be fantastic...for all species. I had one day up there in October...about 5 years ago...when I caught 7 species in one afternoon. Perch, crappie, bluegill, smallmouth, largemouth, bullhead catfish, and even a silly 36" tiger muskie that slurped in a tiny jig I was fishing for crappies.

If you know where to fish and how to fish it you can have some 30 fish days on smallies...with many of them over 3#. So be patient and practice your casting on Deer Creek or Jordanelle. The latter has been fishing better this year. Try launching up at Rock Cliff and fishing either side along the shoreline. Some good topwater early in the morning. Plastics and cranks the rest of the day.
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[bamffisher1]

Thank you
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[bamffisher1]

Thank you Is pineview a good crappie lake? I would like to do some good crappie fishing
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[Therapist]

It is a shame that Pineview is such a mess during the summer ! What do they charge you to launch your tube up there?? Is it the same as a boat or do they reduce the fee ? I usually avoid Pineview as well as Strawberry due to the fact that even though they are Federal waters, they still charge everyone to launch. Your Federal Parks Pass in not valid on these waters, which is stupid. So rather than fight the power squadron, I go elsewhere !!

[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]Pineview is a good crappie lake. But it has its up and down cycles. Several years ago there were fewer but larger crappies. Then there were a couple of years in a row of good spring spawns and the lake became full of crappies...so many that they almost wiped out the perch population by feasting on the young.

The crappies semi stunted because of poor food supplies. But they have grown a bit each year and are now averaging about 10 inches or so. That is big enough to fillet so well worth harvesting a limit of 20.

This is not the best time to fish for them. In addition to the wacko boat brigade, the crappies tend to move out into the main lake and suspend during warmer weather. They are hard to find and harder to entice. But when the fall weather cools the water down a bit the crappies move back into several spots around the lake and are easy pickins for those in the know.
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[bamffisher1]

Thank you Perhaps in the fall we can go catch a few
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]Stay in touch and let's watch for them to shut down the fee operation at the port ramp. That's when I like to start working both up the arm of the North Fork, around Browning Point and up into the Narrows. The crappies usually move in and school up in about 20' of water and they really go on the chew until it gets cold enough to send them deeper.
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