Fishing Wiki - Currant-Creek-Reservoir

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Description (Edit This)
This popular reservoir is located on the south slope of the Uinta Mountains. It is accessible via a good gravel road and it features a paved boat ramp. It is one of our more accessible and productive Uinta Mountain waters.

Guides (Edit This)

Nearby Lodges (Edit This)
- Strawberry Bay
- LC Ranch
- Falcon's Ledge

Location (Edit This)
North of US 40, between Strawberry Reservoir and the town of Duchesne. From Strawberry continue east on Hwy 40 to the obvious sign marking the turnoff to Currant Creek. Follow the maintained gravel road north to the reservoir.

To get to the campground and boat ramp, you must follow the gravel road almost all of the way around the reservoir, to the west side.

• 100 miles from Salt Lake City
• 36 miles from Strawberry

Primary Species (Edit This)
Cutthroat and rainbow trout

Special Regulations (Edit This)
No special regulation on the reservoir - statewide limits and regs apply.

Currant Creek (the stream below the reservoir) is restricted to artificial flies and lures only, with a 2-trout limit.

Seasonal Factors (Edit This)
Because of its high elevation, in mountainous terrain, this reservoir freezes early in the winter and thaws late in the spring. Ice-off normally occurs in May. Fishing is usually good to very good during the first weeks after the ice comes off, and action holds up well through the summer.

Shore fishing is productive in the early spring, summer and fall, when surface water is cool. During the hottest part of summer the fish move deep to find more favorable temperatures and so shore fishing slows, but trout can still be caught using techniques to target deeper fish.

Success often becomes very good in fall, when fish feed voraciously to put on weight for the coming winter.

Ice fishing is usually good to very good at the reservoir. The access road is normally plowed up to the dam. Access can be a problem during and immediately after storms (it may be a few days after a storm before the road is plowed).

Lures and Techniques (Edit This)
The cutts and rainbows here common readily take jigs and minnow-imitating lures. Trolling, casting and jigging are all productive. The fish will also take standard baits (night crawlers, Powerbait). Fly fishermen do well working leech, bugger and damsel patterns near the surface during the early morning and late evening hours.

Ice fishermen find success fishing jigs and ice flies tipped with bait.

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