How to catch splake (lake × brook trout hybrid) in Utah
A lake trout × brook trout hybrid stocked in cold, deep waters like Fish Lake and Joes Valley. Winter jigging is the prime season.
Behavior & tendencies
A lake trout × brook trout hybrid with the laker's cold-water habits and the brookie's aggression, stocked in cold, deep lakes like Fish Lake and Joes Valley. They follow bait schools mid-column in winter and hug deep structure in summer.
Seasonal patterns
Winter is the season: splake are one of Utah's premier ice targets, suspended over deep water and willing all day. Ice-off keeps them shallow briefly; summer sends them deep with the lakers.
What they bite
Minnows, chubs, and juvenile perch; they'll also take insect larvae in winter.
Recommended presentations
- Jigging spoons or tubes tipped with minnow through the ice
- Sonar-watching: raise the jig to bring fish up, then hold still
- Deep trolling small spoons in summer
- Casting spoons at ice-off along drop-offs
splake (lake × brook trout hybrid) by region
Best months for splake (lake × brook trout hybrid)
19 waters holding splake
Sorted by how they’re fishing right now.
- Koosharem ReservoirGood
- Moon LakeFair
- Paragonah ReservoirFair
- Puffer Lake — Tushar MtnsFair
- Upper Box Creek Reservoir — Monroe MtnFair
- Fish LakeFairBlue Ribbon
- Forsyth ReservoirFair
- Neffs Reservoir — Thousand Lake MtnFair
- Posey Lake — Escalante MtnFair
- Blind Lake — Boulder Mtn North SlopeTough
- Crater Lake — Uintas South SlopeTough
- Floating Island — Thousand Lake MtnTough
- Joes Valley ReservoirToughBlue Ribbon
- Lower Barker Reservoir — North Creek LakesTough
- Millsite ReservoirTough
- Navajo LakeTough
- Huntington ReservoirTough
- Middle Kents Lake — Tushar Mtns
- Porcupine Lake