Utah Lake
RECEIVE FISHING REPORT UPDATES!
Rating - Good
Wednesday, Sep 20 2023
June - August: Bullhead and Channel Catfish: Catch rates are fair to good fishing for black bullhead and channel catfish all throughout the lake during these summer months. Rocky shorelines areas, areas having some sort of structure, and the outer edges of weed lines are all great areas to target catfish. Midday catch raters are typically fair, with success fishing mornings, later evenings and nights. Summer is here and so are the mosquitos. The dusk swarms can be overwhelming along the shorelines. We advise anglers desiring to night fish for catfish to go out after sunset/twilight hours (about 10pm-10:30pm) when mosquito activity has died down. Nightcrawler, shrimp, fresh white bass and carp cut bait all work well for summer cats. Fresh white bass meat does seem to be working best for a lot of anglers right now. Fishing the bait suspending off the bottom using a float rig, slip-float or Santee-Cooper rig is producing fish. However, fishing bait on the bottom using a weightless rig (no weight added just a hook and a piece of cut bait) or a classic slip sinker rig also works well. When it comes to channel catfish, we recommend using a larger bait holder hook or circle/octopus hooks paired with heavy test line - the average Utah Lake channel catfish is 4 to 6-lbs. We recommend using a swivel to create a 6 to 15 inch leader section of line between the hook and your main line. When attaching the hook to the leader, try snelling your hook yo give you a better hook set. And, when baiting the hook, try to keep the hook point exposed and make sure the hook gap remains open, meaning, don't fill or load the entire hook with bait. Having too much bait in the hook gap often prevents the hook from anchoring properly inside the fishes mouth when setting the hook.
Wednesday, Sep 20 2023
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Utah Lake
RECEIVE FISHING REPORT UPDATES!
Rating - Good
June - August: Bullhead and Channel Catfish: Catch rates are fair to good fishing for black bullhead and channel catfish all throughout the lake during these summer months. Rocky shorelines areas, areas having some sort of structure, and the outer edges of weed lines are all great areas to target catfish. Midday catch raters are typically fair, with success fishing mornings, later evenings and nights. Summer is here and so are the mosquitos. The dusk swarms can be overwhelming along the shorelines. We advise anglers desiring to night fish for catfish to go out after sunset/twilight hours (about 10pm-10:30pm) when mosquito activity has died down. Nightcrawler, shrimp, fresh white bass and carp cut bait all work well for summer cats. Fresh white bass meat does seem to be working best for a lot of anglers right now. Fishing the bait suspending off the bottom using a float rig, slip-float or Santee-Cooper rig is producing fish. However, fishing bait on the bottom using a weightless rig (no weight added just a hook and a piece of cut bait) or a classic slip sinker rig also works well. When it comes to channel catfish, we recommend using a larger bait holder hook or circle/octopus hooks paired with heavy test line - the average Utah Lake channel catfish is 4 to 6-lbs. We recommend using a swivel to create a 6 to 15 inch leader section of line between the hook and your main line. When attaching the hook to the leader, try snelling your hook yo give you a better hook set. And, when baiting the hook, try to keep the hook point exposed and make sure the hook gap remains open, meaning, don't fill or load the entire hook with bait. Having too much bait in the hook gap often prevents the hook from anchoring properly inside the fishes mouth when setting the hook.
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