Wilderness Lake Fishing Guide, Duchesne County, Utah

• Overview

  Wilderness Lake belongs to Duchesne County, Utah. Everything around it is mixed forest. By elevation it is in the upper part of our Utah listings. Mountain View is the closest town at 32 miles. Lyman is 36 miles and Roosevelt 38 miles. Neighbouring water: Weeping Ledge Lake some 0.3 miles off, Rainbow Lake after 0.4 miles, Davis Lakes some 0.7 miles off, Kidney Lakes after 1.1 miles and Verlie Lake some 1.1 miles off. No border sits close enough to matter.

• Where to Fish on Wilderness Lake

  We hold no survey for this water; read the slope of the shoreline instead. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. This is a lake, so the margins and the first drop matter most. Across Duchesne County, recorded fish include brook trout, brown trout, rainbow trout, Arctic grayling and black-spotted cutthroat trout. Records at this level tell you what is in the area. Anyone new to Wilderness Lake should walk it once before setting up.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The range across the year is 17°F to 52°F. Hard water is a season in its own right here. After early June the shallows warm and the fish move up. Ice usually gives way near early June, and forms again about early November. Look to early summer and the first cool weeks of autumn. The season on Wilderness Lake rarely departs from it.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Nothing formal is recorded here: no ramp, no car park, no marked path. Trout here take small spinners, spoons and, where fly water allows, a nymph or dry. Sort the permit out before you load the car. A polite question at the farm gate opens more banks than anything else. Failing this one, try Weeping Ledge Lake, 0.3 miles away. Confirm before you fish Wilderness Lake.