Tibble Fork Reservoir
Lunch Time on Tibble Fork Reservoir
Feb 4th
Here is another addition of Lunch Time Fishing. This time I decided to hit Tibble Fork Reservoir. The Reservoir is about 20 min from my house so that makes it a prime candidate for a quick fish. I ended up fishing about 45 minutes so even though the travel time was about the same as fish time just being up out of inversion and smog of the valley and fishing is very worth it. Here is some info on the river and reservoir.
Tibble Fork Reservoir is a small reservoir located in American Fork Canyon. The surface area of the lake is only 13 acres and the maximum depth is 36 feet so you can imagine it is not a big reservoir at all. The reservoir is home to rainbow, brook and brown trout most ranging in the 8 to 15 inch range.
As you can tell from the video it was a sunny day with a temperature of about 40. The lake is about 2,000 feet above the valley so I thought it was going to be cold but it was so nice I didn’t even wear my jacket. I am hoping to have a few more videos over the next few months of different waters to go along with the theme.
Tibble Fork with Max…His first fish on a fly rod.
Nov 5th
On Saturday the 1st of Nov I took my boy Max up to Tibble Fork Reservoir as you head up American Fork Canyon, Utah. I would have liked to take him up to the Provo River but Tibble Fork is close and only about 20 min from my house. I decided to go up there because after talking with Dr. Gillespie I knew that the brown trout would be moving up the river for their annual spawn. When we arrived there were a few people on float tubes and no one fishing the on the inlet. To fish the inlet to the reservoir you don’t need anything bigger than a 7 foot 3/4 weight rod. I have two so max and rigged up and headed out. It was muddy from rain the day before so I put him on my back to get through the mud.
As you all know you need to be very careful with where you walk in the river because of the spawning beds or “reds” as they call them. The good thing is that this little river you really don’t need to wade at all, you can fish anywhere from just one side. We used a Glow Bug as the first fly and a Hares Ear for the second.
We caught about 20 browns ranging from 8 to 12 inches all on the Hares Ear. You will not catch big fish up there but you will catch a ton. Nothing like Utah Fly Fishing.
