Winter is a great time to fish for yellow perch and brown trout in Utah. Photo by Scott Root, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
By Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
This is first in a four-part series about a fun activity to do in Utah in the winter — ice fishing!
Don't put your fishing gear away yet. If you do, you might miss some of the best fishing of the year.
That's right — those "crazy" people you see standing on the ice at waters across Utah aren't so crazy after all. They know a layer of cold ice means hot fishing in the water under the ice.
"You can set your watch by it," says Drew Cushing, warm water sport fisheries coordinator for the Division of Wildlife Resources. "When ice starts to form, the fish under the ice get very active. And they're eager to bite."
Luckily for anglers, the eagerness...