High Uintas - Upper Provo Basin

[Joe_Dizzy]

Crystal Lake trailhead is where my Dad always took my brother and I on camping fly fishing trips. You're right, the fish were never big and we'd get excited about a 13 incher, but the scenery was hard to beat! We enjoyed targeting the feisty grayling up there at Marjorie...good memories!

I'll give you feisty, but sure wish they had some size to them. Glad you were able to find bigger ones. My boy and I were up there this week and only found small (borderline bitty sized) ones. Nothing even close to your 13's. Still a beautiful area to fish

Yeah...that was in the 80's & early 90's, but we did find an occasional 12-13 incher usually up at Long Lake & Pond. It's  that that size is considered big for that area, I agree...wish they could get some bigger ones in there. We used to hike up to Red Castle and would find much better quality up there.

I wonder if there could be enough public interest in getting the DNR to put aside at least ONE lake (maybe two) within easy access of the Mirror Lake Highway to manage for a quality fishery? Similar to what is done at Boulder Mtn.

It seems to me like all are managed the same way... 
-- STUFF AS MANY "adult" Rainbow and/or Tiger Trout as you can find into every lake within stone's throw of the road.
-- Plant enough fingerling Brook Trout and Grayling as well to make it look... like a diverse fishery?
-- Plant every remaining "adult" Rainbow and/or Tiger Trout at summer's end to empty out the hatchery.

It would be interesting to see how good of a fishery could be produced if we had fewer trout and a slot limit on one of these lakes. Would there be that much public outcry if one lake was not being stuffed with stunted slime rockets every week?