07-10-2009, 01:34 AM
PBH, thanks for the info on South Ash Creek. I mostly winter fish down there and try to avoid the snow. Do you know at what elevation you find the bonnies there? I might have been 
as I thought North Ash and where N & S Ash Creek combine to form Ash Creek was also called Browse Creek. Maybe we should stick with the Ash Creek names to keep it simple. Beaver Dam Wash is tiny, typically 4-10 cfs in winter if there wasn't been recent storms. Slaughter Creek averages about one tenth that size. I've never seen trout in Slaughter Creek in a dozen or so trips in the last 5 or 6 years. It was running well and clear this past March and all I saw was tons of Dace or whatever the little native fish are called in the Virgin River system. Many trips 3-5 years ago when trout where plentiful in the Wash, Slaughter Creek was dry where it drained into Beaver Dam Wash. I don't know if you ever been down there- the road is horrible, you cross the stream a dozen time, boulders for a road in places, the stream jumps it's bed and runs down the freestone road for upto a hundred yards at a time. A few times I had to slow down as not to run over rainbows swimming in the road. I had many sunny 65-75 degrees of fishing in winter. Huge old cottonwoods lower down changing over to juniper and then pinyon pines higher up. The black basalt canyon as you hike up a few miles from the end of the road is beautiful. Never encountered a single person who didn't come with me. I hope the trout make their way back down from Nevada. I'm sure Utah will never stock it given the endangered native fish species in there. Maybe if we get a couple good water years in a row I'll venture back one winter to see if they've returned.[fishin]
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as I thought North Ash and where N & S Ash Creek combine to form Ash Creek was also called Browse Creek. Maybe we should stick with the Ash Creek names to keep it simple. Beaver Dam Wash is tiny, typically 4-10 cfs in winter if there wasn't been recent storms. Slaughter Creek averages about one tenth that size. I've never seen trout in Slaughter Creek in a dozen or so trips in the last 5 or 6 years. It was running well and clear this past March and all I saw was tons of Dace or whatever the little native fish are called in the Virgin River system. Many trips 3-5 years ago when trout where plentiful in the Wash, Slaughter Creek was dry where it drained into Beaver Dam Wash. I don't know if you ever been down there- the road is horrible, you cross the stream a dozen time, boulders for a road in places, the stream jumps it's bed and runs down the freestone road for upto a hundred yards at a time. A few times I had to slow down as not to run over rainbows swimming in the road. I had many sunny 65-75 degrees of fishing in winter. Huge old cottonwoods lower down changing over to juniper and then pinyon pines higher up. The black basalt canyon as you hike up a few miles from the end of the road is beautiful. Never encountered a single person who didn't come with me. I hope the trout make their way back down from Nevada. I'm sure Utah will never stock it given the endangered native fish species in there. Maybe if we get a couple good water years in a row I'll venture back one winter to see if they've returned.[fishin][signature]