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I hit the south fork yesterday at about 3:00 AM to see if I could get some morning kitties to no avail. I caught some smallies in the morning. The key was just finding the males on the beds. I hit the river below the damn at about 10 am and the river was hot and people were catching limits of nice rainbows/cutbows. I caught a bunch of rainbows on worms and a shrimp looking fly. I couldn't get them to chase a rapala or spinner. The key on the worms was to use no weight and just drift the worm down current.
Attached are 3 pictures
A Smallie
A Rainbow
and What I believe to be a Lahontan Cutthroat
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Awesome catches.
Where is South Fork? I need to do some fly fishing something bad!
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It is like 20 minutes outside of elko. It's called South Fork Reservoir and the River is the South Fork of the Humbolt. Where are you at? I know some good trout waters in Utah that are reasonably close to eastern nevada.
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I just got to get around to taking a weekend trip to Utah. Been to Kolob several times, Panguitch once and Minersville is on my list this year sometime. Just waiting on my oldest daughter to get out of school so we can leave on a Friday (AM) and make it a 3 day/2 night trip to make the most out of the long drive.
Elko would be a LONG haul. Don't see that one happening anytime soon. 422 miles up there.
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My favorite place is above Panguitch Lake on the plateau. There is a creek that starts from the log cabins and goes down through the sage brush plateau and it is chuck full of Brookies with the occasional brown or cutt. The Sevier river is also good with nymphs if it is not muddy. The Sevier river is just out of Panguitch city and I like it around Kingston canyon and it shouldn't be to muddy now, in a few weeks with the runoff it will be to muddy to fish. I'm not a fan of Minersville, but the mountains later in the year has great dry fly fishing. I never have been up to Kolob and I lived in Saint George for 3 years, I would always go to Panguitch instead. I hope this helps.
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I wondered about that plateau. Seen peeps parked and out there in the middle on no where. Figured it was a stream and Brooks but wasn't sure.
Never been to Minersville. Only reason I figured on going there was that someone at work has hit it several times this year and said it was good fishing. Bummer it is nearly impossible to catch anything to eat on it though. With a slot at 22" and most everything caught that I have read about of 21" and under. Plus a one fish limit.
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Yeah on the plateau you will catch 7 or 8 brooks to every brown. The stream is only about 4 feet wide, but if you get the fly on the water you'll catch fish. Spinners will also work great. The browns are typically under the banks, so you wont see them until they strike.
As for minersville, you could probably catch a slot buster, but the odds are against you catching anything bigger than 21 inches.
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That's good news about the slot though.
The big ones will grow. Slot limits work well.
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