Utah’s Native Trout
Great presentation by the Deseret News today about Cutthroat Trout. The only native trout to Utah they prefer the cold water temperatures in higher elevations such as the Scofield and Strawberry reservoirs as well as the Uinta and Boulder mountain lakes. On the lakes try white Zonkers, Copper Crystal Killers, California Leech and Black Flash-A-Buggers.
In streams, cutthroat are famous for going after big, bright, high-floating flies such as Goofus Bugs, Royal Wulff, Stimulators, Chernobyl Ants and any “hopper” pattern. One particularly effective rigging is to fly fish a bead-head nymph such as a Prince or Tungsten Surveyor blow the big dry fly on a 12- to 20-inch dropper.