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Mona Reservoir

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#1 ·
Has anybody ever fished Mona Res.? Is it worth trying? I drove by it a while ago and it seems like a shallow lake. Can you take a boat on it?
 
#5 ·
Way back in my carefree days of youth, you could catch some bullheads(mudcats) out of there. The reservoir currently serves as a location to house a reserve population of June suckers. I also know someone who has some spots there where he catches a few largemouth bass. I have even heard rumors of a few walleyes in there too. However, as was said, it is mostly carp and is not exactly a premier fishery.

You can take a boat on it.
 
#11 ·
A good friend of mine that works for the blm routinely catches 3-5# largemouths in there. I have also seen cats and carp in there. I moved to Mona in 07 and just recently moved north. I kept a minnow trap in the creek that runs out of the reservoir. I caught some small yellow perch and pike in it. It's kind of a mini Utah lake, has a little bit of everything in it. Some local turned a pet piranha loose in there, it made it through the summer but died. I used to have a picture of the carcass. My friend found it washed up on the shore, it was the size of a large white bass with cool little shark like teeth.
 
#14 ·
When was the last time you saw a Wiper? The UDWR stocking reports only show June Suckers being planted in Mona Reservoir going back 11 years. And then only in 2008. Nothing else in the data base. The record Wiper once came from Mona, but that was a long time ago.