rantsville & vernon res.?

[loanfish]

Has anyone fished anyone of these 2 lakes? Just wondering if anyone has any info on whats happening there.
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[fishinfool]

I haven't fished in a while but the best bait to use out there is balls a fire salmon egg's on the bottom with a small hook,fish the inlets.you should do alright.
Later,FNF.[cool]
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[loanfish]

Cool thankyou. Also does grantsville have crawdads?
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[fishinfool]

YES,grantsville has crawdads in it,so if you get hits and you cant hook it, its probably crawdads trying to take off with your eggs.
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[clebreto]

If you want to catch the dads I would go to Settlement Canyon res. instead.
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[Bigfishrule]

If you have a tube or pontoon vernon has a bubble up, (big spring) out in the middle on the northern end. Fishing is always good aroud this spring.

John
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[aquaman]

any size to the fish in vernon our are they planter size fish only, also anything besides trout in there
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[Fishhound]

Grantsville(I've actually heard it called "Rantsville" by a couple of native locals from there LOL) and Vernon are great little stopping off fishing holes for me and the hounds when we are headed in those directions. On weekdays during the spring and fall, , you can find yourself pretty much alone. I visit them about a half a dozen times each per year.

Grantsville gets it's water from the two Willow creeks. North Willow creek flows all year long into the resevoir while South is diverted further up the canyon and is not a creek any longer but a dry wash for most of the canyon. There are little fish in the North Willow creek - I have seen a Perch there (probably due to some bucket bozo), and heard of browns, But,I have only caught planter bows in the resevoir.


In Vernon, there are an abundance of planter rainbows and a few nice browns of relatively fair size(it's a very small body of water) available if you fish really early in the morning or late in the evening. Most of the action is subsurface. It is spring fed from below and has a surface inlet as well, so, there are a couple of places that have good feeding zones. There is also a large bubbling area in the middle that I think is the irrigation outlet(very visible and sometimes audible during some parts of the day later in the year) - it also can provide some action(you'll need flotation to reach it). It can get kind of low, due to the irrigation needs that it was built for, in the late summer or fall. I have camped at both in the dead of winter and been completely alone, but, I have never ice fished them - they both ice-off quite early compared to other waters.

Successfull offerings I have used at Vernon are; Crawlers or eggs under a float or just off the bottom, spinners like rooster tails or panther martins, black or brown marabou jigs, or a slow retrieved wolly bugger or wolly worm. At Grantsville, I have also seen people use power bait in spring green or rainbow speckled.

One thing that should be mentioned about Grantsville and Vernon is that on some weekends during the summer, they can be very crowded and have an animal house like party atmosphere(alcohol weapons and gunfire can seem to be common place - not the kind of happening you want to go to uninvited and/or with hounds/family. Otherwise, those two waters can provide quite a bit of solitude and a peacefull fishing experience with some great vistas.
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