Fall fishing forecast for Sept-Nov
Blanding Reservoir No. 4: Rainbow trout are abundant and should provide good-to-excellent fishing, especially as the water cools off. Popular baits, lures and flies should all catch fish. Tiger trout get aggressive in the fall as they prepare for winter, and you can catch them with various flies (streamers, mouse patterns), lures (spinners, Rapalas) and jigs (marabou, tubes).
Colorado River: Catfish can be caught using smelly baits in backwater areas.
Dons Lake: Rainbow trout are abundant and should provide good-to-excellent fishing, especially as the water cools off. Popular baits, lures and flies should all catch fish.
Foy Lake: As the water cools in the fall, expect summer algae to die off and settle out. Once that happens, trout will begin feeding actively to bulk up before winter. Look for fair-to-good fishing for rainbow trout using various flies, lures and natural baits.
Kens Lake: Channel catfish and largemouth bass will be abundant and should provide good-to-excellent fishing, especially as the water cools off. Popular baits, lures and flies should all catch fish.
Loyds Lake: The lake’s final stocking of the year usually happens in September. Rainbow trout will be abundant and should provide good-to-excellent fishing, especially as the water cools off. Popular baits, lures and flies should all catch fish.
Monticello Lake: As the water cools in the fall, expect summer algae to die off and settle out. Once that happens, trout will begin feeding actively to bulk up before winter. Look for fair-to-good fishing for rainbow trout using various flies, lures and natural baits.
Oowah Lake: As the water cools in the fall, expect summer algae to die off and settle out. Once that happens, trout will begin feeding actively to bulk up before winter. Look for fair-to-good fishing for rainbow and brook trout using various flies, lures and natural baits.
Recapture Reservoir: Fishing can be good to great during the fall months for a variety of fish species. The reservoir is full this year, with a lot of flooded vegetation. Fish around submerged trees and shrubs for largemouth bass and black crappie. Northern pike are ambush predators that lie on the bottom of the reservoir (usually on rocky flats or points), waiting for prey to swim by. To prepare for winter, pike will typically eat more in the late fall, before water temperatures drop.
