03-10-2010, 04:13 AM
I don't think Utah ever stocked Beaver Dam Wash betwen Motoqua and the Nevada border. Nevada stocked rainbows in Schroeder reservoir as well as the stream right across the border from Utah. The last El Nino winter in 2005 when the Santa Clara flooded, Beaver Dam Wash also flooded big time. From the debris in high in trees in wide canyons that thing had more water than the Colorado. Anyway it damaged the Schroeder dam and they then took it out. I don't think they stock the stream anymore and they haven't rebuilt the dam. After that the water remained above normal levels ( normal is tiny like 5 cfs) for a good year or 2 and nice size rainbows were even more plentiful than when they stocked it. They seemed to have disappeared since. Unless they begin to stock the stream I think the only chance of getting trout back above Motoqua is if higher cooler water flows like this year allow fish to migrate back down from further upstream where natural reproduction takes place. I think upstream further in Nevada and back into Utah it's mostly cutts. If you ever check it out send me a pm no matter what you find. Be warned it a very rough drive and you drive across the stream like 6 or 8 times and sometimes all or part of the stream will jump it's bed for the "road". If I ever saw trout swimming in the road I would stop and fish otherwise I usually went to the end by the 2 cabins ( now 1 since 1 burnt down).
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