| DWR Wildlife Specialist Casey Olsen, shows the splake he iced at Joe’s Valley Reservoir. |
CLEVELAND RESERVOIR
There’s no lakeside parking, due to a wall of snow on either side of Highway 31. Anglers need to snowmobile from the Miller Flat parking area. Try chartreuse PowerBait, molded onto a cheese hook for best results. Suspend the bait five feet from the bottom.
GIGLIOTTI POND
Two weeks ago, Casey Olsen and Roy Marchant fished the pond. Using Velveta cheese, they caught five trout.
Through an underwater camera, they observed a lot of trout. Unfortunately, the fish seemed uninterested in most types of bait they presented.
HUNTINGTON CREEK
In open water stretches, fly fishermen might try Montana nymphs, San Juan worms or hares ears. Baitcasters will do best with worms.
HUNTINGTON RESERVOIR (aka Mammoth Reservoir)
There’s a 10-foot wall of snow on each side of the highway bordering the reservoir. The parking space by the restroom is limited as well. Try a 1/8 ounce chartreuse jighead, tipped with half a nightcrawler. Keep the bait moving. The bite will be very light.
This reservoir is closed to the possession of cutthroat trout or trout with cutthroat markings.
JOES VALLEY RESERVOIR
The ice is about 20-inches thick. Early this month, fishing was good with hot pink octopus jigs, hooked onto chub meat. A jig, tipped with mealworms or salmon eggs, is a good standby. Try a gold attractor spoon over the terminal bait.
LAKE POWELL
Visit http://www.wayneswords.com/ for the latest fishing report, provided by Wayne Gustaveson, DWR project leader.
LASAL MOUNTAINS
Mountain lakes remain snowbound. Access is limited to snow machines. Anglers, fishing Ken’s Lake, should try small jigs, tipped with a nightcrawler. Trout range from 8-16 inches.
MILLSITE RESERVOIR
Volunteer Services Coordinator Randall Stilson checked anglers last weekend. He described fishing as slow. Rainbows were 12-13 inches. The best terminal tackle was a white jig, tipped with a mealworm or piece of nightcrawler.
SAN JUAN COUNTY
No recent report. Try PowerBait or worms at Blanding #3 and #4.
SCOFIELD RESERVOIR
Randall Stilson interviewed anglers last Sunday and rated fishing success as fair. The most successful anglers used white, yellow or green jigs, tipped with salmon eggs, mealworms, or dead minnows. Lake access is difficult, due to snow and slush on the ice, which is 20+ inches thick. Most trout ranged from 13-18 inches, except for one cutthroat, which ran 23 inches. OHV and snow machine users are getting bogged down frequently.
On Feb. 10, an angler placed a report on www.BigFishTackle.com that he and his partner had hiked a third of the way to the island.
They fished in 8 feet of water with an ice fly, tipped with a crawler.
They caught limits of cutts and bows that were 16 inches or better. Smaller fish were thrown back.