Fishing Report For Utah Lake, UT

By Rick Seaman

February 17, 2025

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Fishing Report Utah Lake, UT

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Popular Fish Species Utah Lake, UT

White Bass

Uncle Buck's Panfish Creatures Curly Tail Minnow Rigged

Current Report: Fair
Outlook: Good To Very Good

White bass tend to run in large schools in Utah Lake, and migrate their way each Spring into feeder creeks to spawn. Once the spawn is completed, they tend to follow schools of baitfish, but generally congregate in the areas outside their spawning coves. Most any lure that represents baitfish will catch white bass here. Locals report good catches using underspins, curly-tail jigs, crankbaits and Little George spinners .

Largemouth Bass

Current Report: Fair
Outlook:Good

Vegetation and rocky shorelines are magnets for bass here in Utah Lake. Crawfish make their home in the rocks, attracting bass. The weedy areas are home to baitfish, sunfish and yellow perch, all of which are favorites of the largemouth bass here. Quite a variety of lures are catching nice largemouth bass here, but many tournament anglers are throwing vibrating jigs as a primary bait. During slow times, when the bass are finicky, a stick worm, rigged wacky style, often will draw the bass out of brush and weed lines to grab what seems like an easy target.

Channel Catfish

Current Report:Fair To Good
Outlook: Good

Utah Lake has not only a good population of channel cats, it also has some mighty big ones. Reports of channel cats in the 15 lb to 20 lb class are not uncommon. Fishing for channel catfish is often productive around any kind of structure. Fishing late in the day until midnight often produces the best fishing activity as this is prime feeding time for channel cats. Spring through Fall offers some of the best catfish fishing here. Submerged road beds, creek channels and rocky points are all good places to begin. Using a slip sinker or Carolina rig setup, with cut bait or a gob of nightcrawlers, has been productive here for many years. Stink baits, shrimp and other catfish baits also work well.

Fish species to fish for...

Guide to fishing for largemouth bass, channel catfish, black crappie, walleye, bluegill, green sunfish, white bass, yellow perch and northern pike at Utah Lake in Utah.

Utah Lake is a 97,000-acre lake, covering about 150 square miles. The lake has about 70 miles of shoreline, depending on water levels. Access to the shore is plentiful for fishing from the bank. Fish species include bass, catfish, crappie, walleye, bluegill, sunfish, white bass, yellow perch and northern pike.

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Rick Seaman is a fishing enthusiast with over five decades of fishing experience, a retired tournament fisherman, author of numerous published articles on fishing, and co-author of the book "Bass Fishing - It's not WHAT you throw, It's WHERE you throw it".