Conditions of Some of UT's Bass Lakes

[mylesG]

TLDR; Talk about my experience on some of our lakes, Pineview, Jordanelle, Rock Port, etc, fish populations, size of fish.  Specifically LMB and SMB.

Thanks for reading my rambling, please post any thoughts, Cheers!

If it isn't sterile or lacks pink meat Utah has no interest!

Unfortunately.  Hopefully with the treatment of Pelican and the stocking of Arkansas bass and the added warm water species to Jordanelle they will put more focus in.  Shame that the vast stocking of Rainbows aren't doing more for the SMB population, imo adding some type of baitfish into our reservoirs would benefit all species, not just Bass, and Utah has native species of bait fish so we wouldn't be adding a foreign species to our lakes.  There's probably some biology reason they haven't.  Still grateful places like Pineview are still producing quality if quantity has dropped off.

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Trout and kokes are still the runaway #1 focus of Utah's DWR. There is more attention on warm-water species in the past few years, thankfully. But it's still a tiny fraction of the money and time spent on trout.

If you find the time, perhaps a summary of a few other lakes with good fish, such as Hyrum and Starvation. please. TubeDude covers Utah Lake and Willard quite well. Our southern lakes seem to be thriving for bass, Sand Hollow in particular, but if you have thoughts on some others, please enlighten us.

Yea can do!  I know a lot of our Bass lakes fairly well, fished youth/high school tournaments in the past and now dabble in some of the adult clubs our state has.  Making a trip to starvation this next week and from looking at water conidiations online looks like we're gonna catch it right in the middle of the spawn, so hopefully will see some good ones.  All thought I don't make it out to starvation more than once or twice a year, it has always been pretty consistent with numbers and have also pulled some good ones out of there.  Ik starvation had a relatively good Chub population, but in the recent years haven't accidently caught any so hopefully it isn't dying like they did in Jordanelle.