06-29-2015, 05:25 AM
Just thought I'd post up a couple comments about a trip we did over the weekend down Labyrinth Canyon on the Green River. I came to this website looking for some fishing reports on the area in the archives and thought I should post up a quick report.
We put our canoes in at Ruby Ranch and floated to Mineral Bottom. We covered 15 miles the first day, 22 miles the 2nd day and 8 miles the last day. Before the trip I called and talked to Walt at the Price, UT office of the UT DWR. He said there are a lot of catfish in the section of the Green we are going to. He suggested night crawlers for smaller ones, chicken livers or frozen shrimp for bigger ones. He said we may find them stunted because there are too many of them. He recommended watching for a little riffle where it drops into a big hole. He said the cats will come up to the edge of the riffle to feed in the mornings and evenings. He also said there are a few smallmouths and some big walleye down by the confluence. To fish for those, one could cast jigs in the rocks or little crank baits.
We took sucker meat and frozen raw shrimp. We fished with a #4 size worm hook and a couple of split shot sinkers in the mornings and evenings. If we weren't catching one every 5 minutes we were getting a bite. We found the shrimp worked a little better than the sucker meat, but they both did pretty well. We did not catch any catfish bigger than 11 or 12 inches and in total we fished for a total or 2-3 hours. We tried fishing a bit out of the canoes while we floated. We tried bait under a bobber but had a bit of a trouble messing with it.
This is a gorgeous area. It is super remote. Fishing was just one small piece of the adventure. Highly recommended.
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We put our canoes in at Ruby Ranch and floated to Mineral Bottom. We covered 15 miles the first day, 22 miles the 2nd day and 8 miles the last day. Before the trip I called and talked to Walt at the Price, UT office of the UT DWR. He said there are a lot of catfish in the section of the Green we are going to. He suggested night crawlers for smaller ones, chicken livers or frozen shrimp for bigger ones. He said we may find them stunted because there are too many of them. He recommended watching for a little riffle where it drops into a big hole. He said the cats will come up to the edge of the riffle to feed in the mornings and evenings. He also said there are a few smallmouths and some big walleye down by the confluence. To fish for those, one could cast jigs in the rocks or little crank baits.
We took sucker meat and frozen raw shrimp. We fished with a #4 size worm hook and a couple of split shot sinkers in the mornings and evenings. If we weren't catching one every 5 minutes we were getting a bite. We found the shrimp worked a little better than the sucker meat, but they both did pretty well. We did not catch any catfish bigger than 11 or 12 inches and in total we fished for a total or 2-3 hours. We tried fishing a bit out of the canoes while we floated. We tried bait under a bobber but had a bit of a trouble messing with it.
This is a gorgeous area. It is super remote. Fishing was just one small piece of the adventure. Highly recommended.
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I make a trip down to the Green near the town of Green River every Memorial Day, and have yet to catch a cat over 18". Like you said, it's very easy to catch grundles of tiny kitties.