Hey guys I’m really really wanting to get my first walleye. Only been in Utah for a few years and always have wanted to get into a few and scratch it off my list! I’ve tried the Jordan and Utah lake for them but always get frustrated and just switch to wb or cats. If anyone would be willing to share info on where to go or would.be kind enough to bring me along on a trip id be the happiest kids ever.
Try willard, starvation, or deercreek thats where i have had the best luck.
I’m closest to deer creek so ill have to try there w my float tube. Any areas I should stick around? I don’t need specifics:)
Daughter and I fish for walleye at the bottom of the cliffs (as you’re driving from the dam to the Deer Creek Island resort, there are cliffs on your left. Park in that big parking area, then find one of those trails down to the water. Be careful!)
Anyway we’ve had the best luck in the evening there, floating night crawlers 18 or so inches off the bottom. I caught one about 18 inches in size and daughter caught one about 16 inches (if I remember hers right), last time we did this in that spot.
It might be a little cool for them still (maybe not though, with this crazy weather we’ve been having!) but I think it was May last year when we started having luck with walleye at DC.
If you want a really good chance of catching them but they’re smaller, go to Starvation and fish left of the bridge (as you’re facing the bridge, facing east–so north of the bridge, I guess) and use either floating nightcrawlers again, or a marabou jig. I have had very good luck for walleye in that spot using a roadrunner marabou jig, and bottom bouncing it.
I caught my very first walleye up at Willard though, in the North Marina, using a sparkly grey and pink plastic minnow tube jig on a black jig head, again bottom bouncing it. That one was over 22". [:)]
Thanks so much for the info!
Good luck. I caught a walleye 17 years ago, and almost caught one last year in fast water on the Provo right above the harbor. I dedicate at least one real try at them somewhere every year. I’m not trying to discourage you; that’s just the way my weird luck goes.
What I’m saying is, you’re gonna probably have to enjoy the journey as much as the destination on this one, and think of it as a quest. There seems to be lots of luck needed here, and lots to learn. Sooner or later, you’ll get one.
And when you figure it out, let me know…
Also, at UL, I hear about people and see people get one sometimes, while fishing whatever for white bass; worms, spinners, jigs, cranks, etc…
I saw a nice one being caught on the Provo river inlet at the Provo boat harbor yesterday off the shore.
It was face down in a 5 gallon bucket and the tail hung over the top of the bucket. real nice Eye he had.
the walleye have just about finished spawning and will be in their rest period for about 2 weeks or so. sure some will still bite but they are far and few between.
learn how to troll a bottom bouncer and a lindy rig, if you do it right you will catch walleye anywhere you fish. location is the biggest part to catching walleye.