Decided this AM to take my bride for a road trip this afternoon. We left the house about 12:30 PM and drove over North Ogden Canyon to Liberty. There were lots of vehicles parked at the trail heads along that drive. From Liberty we drove around the west and south sides of Pineview for a look-see. I very small patch of ice remained in the very north end of the north bay. We pulled in at the Port Ramp and found 3 empty boat trailers attached to vehicles. The pull off just south of the Port Ramp had about a dozen cars parked there.There was one vehicle near the dam in the narrows area.
Drove around to the south side and went up over Trappers Loop heading to Lost Creek. After leaving I-84 at the Croydon Exit, we passed at least 15 vehicles coming back down with one of them pulling an 18 to 20 foot boat. There were 4 vehicles parked at the Lost Creek dam and about 4 in the area below the dam. The reservoir is ice free. Drove around to the boat launch ramp and saw one trailer. We could just barely see the boat towards the back of the northeast arm (going straight away from the dam). A DNR LEO was parked in his truck at the bottom of the boat launch. There was one toon out in the launch ramp bay that we could see. There were 8 to 10 bank tanglers in that arm as well.
Got back home about 4:15 PM. Nice trip and definitely nice to get away from the house for a few hours. Lots of folks out enjoyin’ Mother Nature’s bounty today. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
We’re still not quite warm enough at night to start using our greenhouse without needing to heat it at night and the forecast for later this week it gets down to the low 20s, so maybe in two weeks, we hope anyway. Monitoring the temps inside it overnights looks like it would have had to heat it for about 4 hours to not fall below 40 and that when our lows have been low 30s. Day temps have been in the 80s or warmer.
Amazing that ice is gone already but it was a warmer last week. That route you took was the exact way my wife and I took last week, except we went the opposite direction, hitting Lost creek first and going over North Ogden pass last. Are you planning on hitting one of those lakes this week?
Thanks for the recon report dubob , I sure wish we could get up there for some action . Trying to finish up some projects before i get to the fishing gear.
Deseret Land & Livestock does own all that land back there and now they own the land on the West side of the road for about a mile or so before you get to tha dam.
I did some more digging on this and came up with the following. The gate I was talking about was this one below the dam on the county road leading up to the dam. I believe this gate to be the old State Park gate. NOTE: Click all pictures to enlarge for full view.
The gate JArner was talking about is this one (circled in red from Google Maps view).
Here is a picture of the DL&L Boundary line in the area of Lost Creek. This is from the Wild Country Outfitters website - click on the ‘Deseret kmz file 1’ link. It agrees with your comment above Curt. The area in the red box below is approximately where the picture above with the red circle shows the location of the gate in question by JArner. It would appear to be on the BoR owned land. That gate should probably be further up the road at the DL&L property boundary to allow bank and toon fishing folks easier access to the north arm of the lake - IMHO.
As with all things involving public and private property, it’s complicated. I don’t have a dog in this fight, but I’m sympathetic with those that do and want/need the easier access.
Thanks for the research and pictures, Bob.
Your absolutely right about the first gate. It was put in to limit the use to daylight hours and keep the party crowd out. They finally figured out that it was a pain to keep opening and closing the gate so they abandonded the idea years ago.
I went to Morgan County a few years back and pulled the plat plans to find out more about the gate. The property where the gate is located is clearly on county property and the road leading up the reservoir is all on county property until you get about 2/3 of the way up the reservoir. There is a small corner of private property (Farmland Reserve alias LDS Church/DL&L) that extends across the road. I would say that if there needs to be a gate across the road it should be at that point. That would be about 1 1/2 miles up the road from the present gate and open up more fishable water for bank anglers along with kick boat fishermen.
Actually, they have had them for a long time, and I have three packages in the SW store in Riverdale. Never sold one, so if you get one, let us know how they work.
I have made my own jaw jacket about 10 years ago. Mostly use it on the ice but works from the shore.
The pictures may be hard to see, but the fish tuging on the line sets it off very easily, can’t use it in the wind. My little grandkids love it because it sets the hook then they can just pick up the little rod and fight the fish.
