# Utah Lake 6/27/04 **URL:** \ **Category:** Willard & Utah Lake Fish Report Archive\ **Created:** [June 30, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990 "2004-06-30T04:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Coldfooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Coldfooter](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Coldfooter)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 4:08am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/1 "2004-06-30T04:08:00Z")
A friend on mine and I spent a bit of Sunday float tubing. These Channels were caught near the L. There are 7 channels in the basket but a total of 9 were caught in about a 3 hour period Sunday afternoon. Largest caught that day, 22". Kept four males and kicked the rest back witch included 3 females and 2 small males. We were only pestered by 2 muddies. ---
**Author:** ![Spades](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Spades](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Spades)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/2 "2004-06-30T04:14:55Z")
How do you tell the difference between male and female? ---
**Author:** ![Coldfooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Coldfooter](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Coldfooter)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 4:29am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/3 "2004-06-30T04:29:11Z")
Well besides the obvious this time of year that the female are packing heavy bellies and eggs. The female also have larger yaps and thicker lips while the males are far more slender and have a smaller head and mouth. ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/4 "2004-06-30T11:26:44Z")
šŸ•¶ **I think you got it bass-ackward. The males have larger heads and are usually darker grey to blackā€¦sometimes bluish. At this time of year, during spawning, a lot of them show signs of battle, with open wounds and scrapes on their bodies from wrestling both with males and females during nest selection and spawning. As we have seen in some of the previous posts, a big veteran male can be really UGLY. The ladies is purtier.** **Donā€™t go by which fish are wearing lipstick. You might just be dealing with ā€œgender-confusedā€ males.** ---
**Author:** ![Coldfooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Coldfooter](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Coldfooter)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 1:07pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/5 "2004-06-30T13:07:21Z")
Hmmmmmmm, sorry olā€™e buddy but I think your wrong on this one. ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/6 "2004-06-30T15:50:06Z")
šŸ•¶ **I ainā€™t always right, but Iā€™m never wrong. Ever hear that from the wife?** **In the attached picture, the fish I am holding is a male. The others are females. In your pic of the fish in the basket, the only fish I can identify are clearly females. Maybe some have already spawned, but the color and the heads are typical of females.** * * * ---
**Author:** ![Coldfooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Coldfooter](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Coldfooter)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/7 "2004-06-30T22:25:35Z")
Iā€™m not biting for it Pat, NO way, No how, lol! Thats a female you got ahold of the lip of. Of the 3 fat headed and lipped Channels I kept this year ALL had eggs. The 4 small headed I kept last Sunday (all small headed with small mouths and 18-22 inches long) showed NO sign of packing eggs even after slit from stem to stern. Next I suppose youā€™ll tell me those I kept werent mature enough to spawn, right? lol So unless they made so sort of miraculous transformation after spawning, in that basket in my picture, there were 4 males and 3 big mouthed , fat lipped, fat headed female kitties. ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/8 "2004-06-30T22:36:08Z")
šŸ•¶ **You can always tell an opinionated person, but you canā€™t tell them much. Especially when they still believe that the dark male cats are ā€œblue catsā€.** **That ā€œfemaleā€ I am holding was full of ā€œmiltā€. Talk about sex change operations.** ---
**Author:** ![Coldfooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Coldfooter](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Coldfooter)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/9 "2004-06-30T22:48:52Z")
That might be the case but I will admitt to being wrong, once. HA! ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/10 "2004-06-30T22:56:15Z")
šŸ•¶ **If you didnā€™t have thick skin, like me, this coulda got outta hand. I still love ya, ya old reprobate.** **I should know better than to dispute the keen eye of a guy who can tell the difference between real and ā€œenhancedā€ from a hundred yards away.** **If we still need to settle this, I propose a duel. Float tubes at fifty paces. But, if you are going to use any foul-smelling stuff, I claim the upwind advantage.** ---
**Author:** ![Coldfooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Coldfooter](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Coldfooter)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/11 "2004-06-30T23:03:33Z")
LOL, well of late Iā€™ve found I have to get within the 100 yards to really tell. Btw, I need to make an apology to the lady I flip sand on from the prop of my trolling motor as I passed by. Honestly, I swear! I didnt see ya laying there sooner. And tubes at 50 it will be! šŸ˜† ---
**Author:** ![Out4Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f04885/32.png) [@Out4Trout](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Out4Trout)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/12 "2004-07-01T02:14:24Z")
šŸ•¶Iā€™m no expert, but that big fat, ugly, and black colored 8 pounder in my Lincoln Beach report from saturday was a male. He had a HUGE head, and battle wounds from the spawn. There were no eggs in side of him, so Iā€™m gonna have to side with TubeDude here.[unsure] ---
**Author:** ![Utcatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/90db22/32.png) [@Utcatman](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Utcatman)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/13 "2004-07-04T02:08:27Z")
all of the male cats i have caught at utah lake this year all were black to blue with big ole swollen heads, and the females were an olive color really fat and alll had petite headsā€¦ but maybe there are blue cats in utah lakeā€¦ hahaha yeah right .. Joe AKA utcatman ---
**Author:** ![Coldfooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Coldfooter](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Coldfooter)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 4:23am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/14 "2004-07-04T04:23:54Z")
ā€œmaybe there are blue cats in utah lake , hahaha yeah rightā€. Shhhhh, dont tell me that. OK. Pat and I both know witch ones are the sheā€™s and witch are the heā€™s but we cant help but give eachother crap from time to time. I knew heā€™d be the first to call me on the statement that the fat lipped and large headed channels are the sheā€™s. But there are Blue Cats in Utah lake and Willard. Flat heads and Whites also, just dont tell anyone.. [;)] ---
**Author:** ![Utcatman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/90db22/32.png) [@Utcatman](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Utcatman)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 4:03pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/15 "2004-07-04T16:03:35Z")
man, i wish we had flatties in utahā€¦ that is one of my favorite fishys to catch. really slow and heavy fighters. none in utah though, although some idaho lakes have got em! i have only caught them in california though. joe utcatman ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 5:57pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/16 "2004-07-04T17:57:47Z")
šŸ•¶ **Did you mean ā€œfat-headsā€ or flatheads?** **Hereā€™s a pic of one worth going after from a float tubeā€¦one of the vanishing species known as the giant Mekong River catfish.** ---
**Author:** ![DonInDenver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@DonInDenver](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/DonInDenver)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/17 "2004-07-04T19:47:34Z")
[crazy] Hmmmm. Well, ya learn sumpinā€™ new ever day. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfooter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Coldfooter](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Coldfooter)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2004, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-lake-6-27-04/43990/18 "2004-07-04T23:04:05Z")
Now just one of those might keep me in kittie dinners for a year.