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Utah · Largemouth and smallmouth bass (a combined total)

Can you keep a largemouth and smallmouth bass (a combined total) in Utah?

Yes, with limits

Great Salt Lake (near the state marina / Antelope Island Causeway)

Open year-round
Size
No size limit stated
total length
Daily bag
6
per person per day, largemouth and smallmouth bass combined (statewide default - Great Salt Lake carries no water-specific rule of its own)
Possession
12
total you may hold

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

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