08-01-2023, 03:43 PM
I just returned from a recent trip on the Sevier River in Kingston Canyon below Otter Creek Reservoir and upstream from Piute. Both Piute and Otter Creek have not only had smallmouth stocked in them over the years but both have had very good populations of smallmouth at times (Piute has been drained several times and its fish populations really fluctuate). While fishing the Sevier, we had quite a few crayfish latching on to our minnows we were drifting. I caught at least five crayfish and my brother caught about that many more. The food base in the Sevier River not only through Kingston Canyon but also downstream of Piute in Marysvale Canyon as well as Otter Creek the stream near Angle has good numbers of crayfish....yet, I have never seen or caught a smallie in any portion of these streams. Yet, I have caught them below Yuba. To me, it is all about the water temps for smallmouth...