Upper Pond Fishing near Manti, Utah

• Overview

  The Sanpete County entry here is Upper Pond, in Utah. The surface lies 8,986 feet up. At 4 acres it is the sort of place you fish for an evening rather than a day. Most waters listed here for Sanpete County are larger. Manti sits 7.6 miles from here and is the nearest stop. Provo sits 73 miles out, and it is the nearest city worth the name. It sits well inside its county, with no border complications.

• Where to Fish on Upper Pond

  Our records hold no depth for this water. The shallow end warms first and pulls fish in ahead of the rest. Read the surface for the wind lane, then fish the edge of it. Open biodiversity records for Sanpete County list rainbow trout, brown trout, Atlantic salmon and black-spotted cutthroat trout. At least one recorded species is protected in parts of its range; read the local rules before targeting anything. At Upper Pond the first feature you find is worth twenty minutes.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is 21°F to 59°F. Winter puts a hard lid on this one. The lid usually goes in early May, which opens the strongest weeks of the year. The season between ice runs from about early May to late November. Just after the ice goes and just before it returns, the fishing lifts. That is the shape of the year on Upper Pond.

• Tackle & Baits

  Nothing we hold confirms whether access is permitted. There is camping recorded roughly 70 yards off. Public toilets are recorded roughly 70 yards off. Light line and small metal for the trout; a fly rod earns its place on calm evenings. Where the road in crosses private land, ask first. Where parking is tight, arriving early solves most problems. Should this one be busy, Lower Pond is 0.3 miles off. Rules at Upper Pond are worth checking on the day.