Last modified: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Recent fishing news
- Check our news release page for recent press releases regarding fishing and other wildlife.
- 2008 Fishing Essay Contest: If you are a student in grades 7 through 12, you could win a tackle package and an all-inclusive fishing trip at Flaming Gorge.
Buy a license
Fishing guidebook
Fishing reports
Blue Ribbon Fishery
Record catches
Catch and release
Popular Utah destinations
Walk-In Access
- The Walk-In Access Program compensates landowners for opening their property to hunting, fishing and trapping. This is a three-year pilot program that is currently confined to northern Utah.
Utah fishing environmental contaminants advisories
- Fish consumption advisories: This information is maintained by the Utah Dept. of Health's Environmental Epidemiology Program to inform anglers about health risks associated with eating certain species of fish caught at various locations in Utah that might contain high levels of mercury, PCBs or other chemical contaminants.
Provo River restoration project
Community fishing
Other fishing information
- Utah fish hatcheries — Get information on Utah's fishing stocking hatcheries
- Youth organization fishing license exemption form — Some youth organizations may hold fishing events where participants may fish without a license. — (PDF format)
- Utah State Parks & Recreation — Many of Utah's state parks are built around great fishing. Visit the State Parks site for information on facilities, reservations and regulations.
- 2008 fish stocking — information on the waters that have been stocked this year.
- Aquatic nuisance species in Utah — These species pose major threats to Utah's water resources and fisheries.
- Quagga and zebra mussels — These aggressive mollusks pose a huge threat to Utah's waterways that could severely compromise fisheries and damage water management facilities. Although not yet in Utah, these mussels were found recently in Lake Mead and the lower Colorado River.
- A partial list of Utah lakes and reservoirs — Information on bodies of water in Utah.
- Aquaculture & fish stocking: Regulations regarding institutional aquaculture, private fish ponds, short-term fishing events, private fish stocking and displaying live fish
- A Simple 4-step Method to Manage for Quality Fishing — (PDF format, 1.2 MB)
- Catch & keep record fish certification form — (PDF format)
- Fish of Utah —Species Identification
- Genetic Considerations Associated with Cutthroat Trout Management — (PDF format)
- Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program — a partnership of public and private organizations working to recover endangered species while allowing continued and future water development.
- Colorado River Cutthroat Conservation — a tri-state effort between Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
- Ichthyogram: The Fisheries Experiment Station's quarterly newsletter
- A Study of The Lake Trout Population of Fish Lake During 1989–2002 — (PDF format, 750 KB)
- Fisheries Experiment Station
- Whirling Disease information
- Whirling Disease in Utah
- Trespass laws of specific interest to hunters and anglers
— Landowner permission card
- Aquatic resource education
- Guides & outfitters: Search for fishing & hunting guide services at Utah.com.
- Crayfishing for fun and food
- Southern Utah's wild trout streams
- Bass waters of Utah
- Upper Sevier River Community Watershed Project — addressing restoration needs, management challenges and research opportunities for rangeland, forestlands and aquatic ecosystems in the upper Sevier River watershed
- Teaming with Wildlife — a national initiative proposing to raise funds for state wildlife conservation, recreation and education programs.
