Largemouth and smallmouth bass size limit in Utah

Great Salt Lake has no dedicated fishing-limits entry anywhere in Utah's 2026 guidebook - the lake is hypersaline and its only explicitly regulated take is brine shrimp. Any bass are found in the freshwater-influenced margins near the marina and causeway, not the open lake, so the plain statewide bag limit is applied here by default rather than a fabricated water-specific number.

UDWR source page

Lake Powell keeps largemouth and smallmouth bass as two entirely separate bag limits (5 largemouth, 20 smallmouth - see the smallmouth bass page), unlike Great Salt Lake's combined rule modelled elsewhere in this entry. No minimum size on either species here.

UDWR source page

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.
• Lake Powell also carries no-limit rules for striped bass and walleye, and channel catfish there may be used live as bait for striped bass - none of this is modelled, since neither species is a tracked target for this water on this site.