Blue Flat Reservoir

Blue Flat Reservoir in Emery County is a reservoir in Utah and covers about 10.6 acres, reaches about 19.1 feet at its deepest point and holds roughly 87.3 acre-feet.

Blue Flat Reservoir is small water, so a careful lap around the bank can show most of the useful cover.

Fish and Baits

Fish listed for Blue Flat Reservoir include Bluegill, Channel Catfish, Common Carp, and Largemouth Bass.

While looking for bluegill on Blue Flat Reservoir, use a small jig, worm, or tiny plastic around green weeds and protected pockets.

Start the largemouth bass search on Blue Flat Reservoir by trying to work a soft plastic, jig, or spinnerbait around weeds and protected cover.

To begin with channel catfish on Blue Flat Reservoir, fish cut bait or a nightcrawler on the bottom along a channel edge or warm flat.

A useful common carp plan on Blue Flat Reservoir is to place corn or a dough bait on the bottom along a shallow flat.

How to Read the Water

At Blue Flat Reservoir, start where two things meet: weeds and open water, rock and mud, a point and a drop, or clear water and dirty water; fish that edge at more than one depth before leaving it.

Season by Season

shallow water is worth a careful look in spring and again during fall; bright summer days favor shade, weeds, or deeper breaks; under ice, a small depth change can be more useful than a long move; try the first deep shelf after the bank, then keep the presentation close to useful cover.

A Simple Tackle Plan

A medium spinning rod, 8-pound line, a small box of jigs, a few crankbaits, and a simple bottom rig cover most situations; change depth or speed before changing every piece of tackle; start with the cover closest to deep water, then give shaded water a separate pass.

Record the wind, water color, productive depth, and cover after a bite; those four notes are more useful on the next trip than a long list of spots that did not produce; change depth before changing the whole spot, then separate open-water fish from bank fish.