Smallmouth in Utah

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[quote doggonefishin]


I have never fished at Newcastle, so you may be right about that. [/quote]

You are missing out.

[quote doggonefishin] Minersville, not even close when I lived in sin city and fished it then. while I've enjoyed your pics of the smallies taken by gillnetting there more recently, again not what we used to get out of the X.
[quote doggonefishin]

Biggest smallies I've ever caught were at Minersville. That was about 10 years ago. The nice thing with Minersville, and other southern waters, is that we don't have the exposure that those up north have. So we get to experience some very good fishing without everyone figuring it out!


[quote doggonefishin]Piute, no experience there, but with the dismal water situation and drawdowns there, I highly doubt it. [/quote]

Which is exactly what those locals enjoying phenomenal smallie fishing want you to think! It's also why they cry foul so much when DWR starts discussing rotenone treatments during those low water years. Those smallies in Piute are incredible - but very few people know about it.


[quote doggonefishin]Minersville and OC are fine smallie fisheries, but it is easy to forget how amazing lake X was during its heyday and that is what we are talking about here.
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I'll agree. So, how do you get back to that?
Stock perch? I don't think so.

find me 1 single instance of a lake with smallmouth and perch as the primary predators where they thrive together.


You can't. There aren't any. Anywhere.

get rid of 1 or the other.
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