Utah Fly Fishing Guides

Fly Fishing In Utah

Utah has scores of great places to fly fish – rivers, creeks, reservoirs, lakes, and small ponds. Trout and bass are the two favorites with fly anglers, and numerous flyfishing guides in Utah are there to help.

Fly Fishing For Bass In Utah

Both largemouth and smallmouth bass are popular catches in Utah, and these feisty fish are challenging on a fly rod. The state record largemouth weighed 10 pounds, 2 ounces and was caught in Lake Powell. Other sites that provide great bass fishing include Steinaker Reservoir, Pelican Lake, Red Fleet Reservoir, Huntington North Reservoir, Sand Hollow Reservoir, Gunlock Reservoir, Deer Creek Reservoir, and Utah Lake.

Pound for pound, smallies are even scrappier than largemouth bass and are a favorite with fly fishermen everywhere. The Utah record smallmouth weighed 7 pounds, 6 ounces and was landed in Lake Borham. Other places to catch smallies include Starvation Reservoir, Newcastle Reservoir, Enterprise Reservoir, Rockport Reservoir, and Deer Creek Reservoir.

Many Utah fly fishing guides specialize in “bass busting.”

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Fly Fishing For Trout In Utah

Utah’s state record rainbow trout weighed 26 pounds, 2 ounces and was pulled from Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Rainbow trout fishing can also be done successfully in Hyrum Reservoir, Lost Creek Reservoir, the Blacksmith Fork River, Birch Creek Reservoir, Navajo Lake, Brough Reservoir, Steinaker Reservoir, East Canyon Reservoir, Strawberry Reservoir, Payson Lake, Nine Mile Reservoir, Scofield Reservoir, East Fork Sevier River, the Beaver River, Mammoth Creek, Willow Pond, the Provo River, Kolob Reservoir, Mirror Lake, the Ogden River, the Weber River, Mantua Reservoir, and Panguitch Lake.

The state record brown weighed in at 33 pounds, 10 ounces and came from Flaming Gorge. To land brown trout in Utah, fish in Mammoth Creek, the Provo River, the Beaver River, the Blacksmith Fork River, the Weber River, East Fork Sevier River, the Logan River, the Ogden River, Echo Reservoir, Straight Canyon Creek, Clear Creek, the Fremont River, Baker Reservoir, Mill Meadow Reservoir, Huntington Creek, Corn Creek, and Lower Fish Creek.

Boulder Mountain produced the record brook trout, weighing 7.5 pounds. Brookies can be found in good numbers in the Logan River, East Fork Sevier River, Navajo Lake, Duck Creek Pond, Yankee Meadow Reservoir, East Fork Sevier River, Thousand Lake Mountain, Monroe Mountain Lakes, Ferron Reservoir, and Boulder Mountain.

For cutthroat trout, try Bear Lake, the Logan River, Kolob Reservoir, Yankee Mountain Reservoir, Panguitch Lake, Lost Creek Reservoir, East Fork Sevier River, Thousand Lake Mountain, Currant Creek Reservoir, Monroe Mountain Lakes, Koosharem Reservoir, the Blacksmith Fork River, Pine Lake, the Weber River, and the Ogden River. The record cutthroat weighed 26 pounds, 12 ounces and came from Strawberry Reservoir.

The best places to catch lake trout in the state are Bear Lake and Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which produced the 51.8-pound state record fish.

For tiger trout angling, fish Birch Creek Reservoir, Scofield Reservoir, Monroe Mountain Lakes, Mill Meadow Reservoir, Wrigley Springs Reservoir, Willow Lake, and Beaver Mountain Lakes. The state record was landed in Palisade Reservoir with a weight of 10 pounds, 12 ounces.

Other trout species available in Utah include the golden trout, the albino trout, the splake trout, and the brownbow. Utah fly fishing guides who target trout will be knowledgeable about fishing locations, state laws, and the best flies to use.