Lake Powell Fishing Help

[dubob]

Fish for stripers if you like, but in my sometimes less than humble opinion, smallies are much preferred.

What - say it isn't so Rocky.  

That's why there's no limit on any of the three.

2020 Guidbook says:

Lake Powell, Garfield, Kane and San Juan
counties.  See Bait on page 12 for the use of dead shad
as bait in Lake Powell.
• Limit 20 smallmouth bass.
• Limit 5 largemouth bass.
• Limit 10 crappie.
• Limit 25 channel catfish.
• No limit on striped bass.
• No limit on walleye.
• Fish may be filleted at any time.
• Anglers may possess filleted fish.
• Anglers may use dead striped bass as
bait.

On my two trips a year to Powell, we keep walleye, and smallmouth bass in the 2 pound area.  We do not keep largemouth bass unless they are injured beyound recovery from removing a swallowed bait.  The bass and walleye are excellent table fare; strippers not so much.  We kill 'em and leave 'em (legal in Lake Powell).

In 2013, the Utah Legislature passed a law that allows anglers to dispose of carp and a few other species—particularly species under catch-and-kill orders at certain waterbodies—without violating the state’s wasting statute. If you visit any of the following waters and catch any of the species listed for those waters, you may dispose of them: Lake Powell: striped bass

But if you like 'em, by all means, keep as many as you care to clean.  Have fun Robert