Utah · Trout, kokanee salmon and Arctic grayling (a combined total)
Can you keep a trout, kokanee salmon and arctic grayling (a combined total) in Utah?
Yes, with limits
Green River, Flaming Gorge Dam downstream to the Colorado state line in Browns Park ("A Section" tailwater)
Open year-roundUtah's flagship tailwater fishery, immediately below Flaming Gorge Dam - artificial flies and lures only, and closed to fishing from a boat with a motor between the Utah-Colorado state line and the dam. This same reach also carries a separate no-limit-but-must-not-release rule for channel catfish, burbot, northern pike, smallmouth bass and walleye; not modelled here since this site tracks trout at this water.
Provo River, Deer Creek Dam to Legacy Bridge on Midway Lane (SR-113)
Open year-roundThe site's tracked coordinate falls in this stretch (near Charleston/Midway), which carries no Provo-specific override and runs on the plain statewide default - a confirmed finding, since both neighboring reaches (Olmstead Diversion Dam to Deer Creek Dam downstream, and Legacy Bridge to Jordanelle Dam upstream) do carry their own stricter 2-trout-under-15-inches, artificial-flies-only rule.
What we left out on purpose
- Great Salt Lake's bass/crappie/catfish numbers are the plain statewide defaults, not a water-specific table - none exists for this lake in the guidebook. If UDWR ever publishes a dedicated Great Salt Lake fishery rule (e.g. for the marina, causeway borrow pits or nearby bays), this entry should be revisited.
- Utah's statewide 'possession limit' definition (two daily limits, fish stored anywhere except a permanent residence) is applied uniformly as the 2x multiplier for possessionLimit across all four species here; no water-specific possession override was found for either tracked stretch.
- The Green River's much longer 'Flaming Gorge Dam downriver to the confluence of the Colorado River' segment (no-limit-but-must-kill catfish/burbot/pike/bass/walleye) is not modelled - this site tracks the dam-adjacent A Section trout tailwater specifically, not the general river reach further downstream.
- Utah's community-fishery waters (2-fish combined limit, largemouth bass release encouraged) are a separate, smaller-water category and not modelled - neither Green River, Provo River nor Great Salt Lake is a community fishery.
Other species in Utah
Where to try today
- Great Salt Lake 7/10 · Good
- Green River 9/10 · On fire
- Provo River 8/10 · Good