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Flaming Gorge
The rule for this water, with the receipt.
Special regulations for Flaming Gorge, as the state words them
Sweetwater County · River · UT
Has its own special rules
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Today's rule hereParsed
- Season
- Utah has a year-round fishing season for most waterbodies. It runs from Jan. 1–Dec. 31, 2025.Statewide
- Gear
- No line may have attached to it more than three baited hooks, three artificial flies or three artificial lures.Statewide
- Bait
- Not captured yet - consult the statewide regulations
- Poles
- you can fish with two poles at any water in the state during its open fishing seasonStatewide
| Species | Daily limit | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|
Black crappie and white crappie | 50 (a combined total) | - | Statewide |
Bluegill and green sunfish | 50 (a combined total) | - | Statewide |
Bonneville cisco | 30 | - | Statewide |
Bullhead | 24 | - | Statewide |
burbot Anglers must not release any burbot they catch. All burbot must be immediately killed. | No limit for burbot | - | This water |
Channel catfish | 8 | - | Statewide |
Crayfish | No limit | - | Statewide |
Kokanee salmon | See trout limit next column | - | Statewide |
Largemouth and smallmouth bass | 6 (a combined total) | - | Statewide |
Nongame species | No Limit | - | Statewide |
Northern pike | 20, only 1 over 36 inches | min. only 1 over 36 inches | Statewide |
Roundtail chub Varies by water: limit 2 (Most Utah fisheries) | The statewide limit for roundtail chub is 2 fish unless otherwise specified in the Rules for specific waters . | - | Statewide |
Sacramento perch | 10 | - | Statewide |
Striped bass | No limit | - | Statewide |
Tiger muskellunge | 1 over 40 inches | min. over 40 inches | Statewide |
Trout, kokanee salmon and Arctic grayling | 4 (a combined total) | - | Statewide |
Walleye | 10, only 1 over 24 inches | min. only 1 over 24 inches | Statewide |
Whitefish | 10 | - | Statewide |
White bass | No limit | - | Statewide |
Wiper | 3 | - | Statewide |
Yellow perch | 50 | - | Statewide |
nongame fish | Nongame fish that are legal to take must either be released or killed immediately after you remove them from the water. You may not leave them on the shoreline. | - | Statewide |
game fish or crayfish | a legal limit | - | Statewide |
lake trout | No limit for lake trout 28 inches or less; only 1 lake trout may exceed 28 inches | min. 28 inches | This water |
catfish | 6 catfish | - | This water |
The official text, verbatimOfficial text
Straight from UT's official regulations. Rules in force today lead; out-of-season rows are dimmed. Nothing is paraphrased. Not legal advice: verify the posted rules at the water.
Whole water
- All fishBait Dead burbot and (new) lake trout from Flaming Gorge may be used as bait only in Flaming Gorge.
- burbot, lake troutGear It is illegal to use artificial light while underwater spearfishing with the following two exceptions: If you're underwater spearfishing for burbot or lake trout at Flaming Gorge.
- burbot, lake troutyear-round, 24 hours per day (dates as written)Gear Underwater spearfishing for burbot and lake trout is allowed year-round, 24 hours per day. Artificial light is allowed while spearfishing for burbot and lake trout. Artificial light may not be used to take any other fish species with spearfishing techniques. The length of shooting lines used when spearfishing is restricted to 20 feet.
- lake trout
- All fishDaily limit only one daily limit in your possession at any timeException to the two-daily-limits-while-traveling rule.
- burbot and lake troutMay legally dispose of these fish without violating the state's wasting laws.
- trout or kokanee salmonDaily limit Excluding lake trout, a limit of 4 trout or kokanee salmon (a combined total); no more than 3 of these may be kokanee salmon
- lake troutDaily limit No limit for lake trout 28 inches or less; only 1 lake trout may exceed 28 inchesSize 28 inchesBait Anglers may use dead lake trout that are part of their daily bag limit as bait.
- All fishCLOSED to nighttime angling (sunset to sunrise) from Oct. 15 through 6 a.m. on the second Saturday of December. (dates as written)Linwood Bay, west of a line from the easternmost point of the south shore of Linwood Bay (mouth of canyon) to easternmost point of the north shore of Linwood Bay (Lucerne Point).
- catfishDaily limit 6 catfish
- smallmouth and largemouth bassDaily limit 3 smallmouth and largemouth bass (a combined total)
- burbotDaily limit No limit for burbotBait Anglers may use dead burbot as bait.Anglers must not release any burbot they catch. All burbot must be immediately killed.
- All fishDaily limit Anglers are only allowed one daily limit at Flaming Gorge.Poles An angler may use up to six lines when fishing through the ice. If the angler is using more than two lines, the angler's name must be attached to each line, pole or tip-up, and the angler may check only their lines. (There is no restriction on ice hole size.)
How this answer was assembled
- StatewideStatewide river rules are the base layer: default season, gear, bait, and limits.
- This waterSpecial rules written for this exact water replace the statewide defaults where they speak.
- Emergency orderEmergency orders in effect today override everything else. They sync quietly when the phone has coverage and never lock you out of the app.
Where this stretch begins and ends
This water is not yet drawn on the map. Its rules are captured and receipted; the geometry ledger records exactly why it is not drawn (an ambiguous name match or a gap in the source data), and it will never ship as a guess. Each rule above describes in the state's own words where it applies, and those written descriptions are the authoritative boundaries.
What are you fishing for here?Advice
Pick from the species named in Flaming Gorge's rules. Setups are checked against the gear rules in force today, and your picks are remembered on this device only. These are rule-aware suggestions, not a claim about what is biting; advice, not law, and the rules above govern.
Receipts
Statewide rules
StatewideChecked against this official source on July 11, 2026.
Special rules - Flaming Gorge
This waterChecked against this official source on July 11, 2026.
Local services near Flaming Gorge
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