Fishing Time: 7:00 am to 3:00 pm
Weather: Sunny, no wind, T-70s
Moon Phase: New Moon
Location: Utah Lake (AF Boat Harbor)
Water Temp: Morning- 65 degrees, Afternoon- 68 degrees
Best Bait: Morning- chicken livers fished off bottom deep, Afternoon-
Worm underneath a slip bobber fished shallow
Who Went: Chad Fuller, Trace Fuller, Devin Duncan, Dayton Duncan, Dunc
The weather is finally starting to warm up after a cold and
rainy start to summer. We headed to Utah
Lake in hopes the catfishing is starting to warm up as well. We were turned away at American Fork Harbor
due to damage on the road from the high runoff we experienced this year. We drove over to Lindon and launched from
there.
We headed to our favorite catfish spot only to find it very
different than we left it in 2019. The
water is so high this year it’s coming over the dike going into the marina. Seems it was the pelicans favorite spot.
You can only get there if the water level is high enough and
the last few years it’s been inaccessible.
Not a problem this year! Meanwhile,
they have bulldozed the area and it looks like they are making it into another
marina. Not sure if it’s all the
excavation work or not, but the fishing was no good. We moved on quickly and went to AF Harbor
thinking it may not be busy since its closed and only accessible by boat. Smart move as we had the place to ourselves
for most the morning.
Chad and Trace had the hot hand to start the morning using chicken livers near the bottom. The boys and I were using worms and shrimp under a bobber and didn’t have a lot of luck except for a few mud cats. We changed to chicken livers and finally put some channel cats in the boat.
Later in the day it seemed the cats went shallower to spawn
and the bobber with a worm was the ticket.
We continued to put big cats in the boat, and it was a blast watching
the boys go to battle with these beasts.
Summer catfishing at Utah Lake is hard to beat.
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