Panguitch Lake, Utah 26-29 June 2012

[wolfs4evr]

No flashers/downrigger. With the lake low I am guessing shore fishing has to be a bear. The biggest population of fish is out in the deeper areas of the lake and the only way to get remotely near them is boat. From shore there is zero access to deep water. There isn't a spot on that lake that you can cast to deeper than 10 feet from shore. Well, one spot. NE corner of the lake by the levee. If one goes over by the levee (west side entrance into the levee) and casts from the rocky entrance into the levee out into the main lake or slightly south (left) toward the next rocky point you can get into 20 feet of water. That is where Madi caught her big Rainbow and where we seen that huge Cut chashing down a fingerling Madi was reeling in. There was some fish to be found in the shallow waters though. Every now and then we would get into 10 feet water and though we didn't catch much something bigger ever now and then was to be found. Especially when it is cloudy. I noticed on the one day it was cloudy they moved in closer to shore compared to sunny days. The thermocline is in 15-30 feet of water.

Sunny and where the biggest population was:



On the one cloudy day we were there:



Where the nutrients/temp really changes in the lake:



Our track from 3 days of trolling/running around the lake:


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