Freestone · Limestone · Utah, US

Huntington Creek

Huntington Creek venue image

Huntington Creek is the Wasatch Plateau's reward for getting off the Wasatch Front — a tumbling, limestone-influenced canyon creek up the Hwy 31 corridor southwest of Price, and one of Utah's designated Blue Ribbon fisheries.

Tomorrow · About as good as it gets
Sculpin Streamer
Forecast · Tomorrow
About as good as it gets
On the feed top to bottom — start on the rises with a dry, drop a nymph if they stay down.
90% projected
Today's fly
Sculpin Streamer
Sculpin Streamer
Conditions on the water · Tomorrow
Estimate
Level
Dry recently
No gauge reading
Water temp8.9°C
ClarityClear
Weather13°C
WindN 9 km/h
Pressure1016 hPa
Rain · recent0.6 mm
Rain · ahead0.5 mm

No gauge on this water — readings are regional estimates from weather, not a live gauge.

Water temperature for Cutthroat Trout
Cool — slow
9°C est.ideal 9–15°C
0°14°28°
How to fish it · for Cutthroat Trout
When
Nymphing can work through most of the day.
Where
Cover mixed depths.
Method
Start with tight-line nymphs and adjust if fish rise or drift higher.
Kit
9 ft #4 rod, floating line, 12 ft tapered leader to 4–5 lb fluoro tippet.
Why this works
Good — water clarity is right today, though insect activity could be better.
Likely species
Mayflies
Caddisflies
Hatch timeline · tomorrowPeak at 11am

12pm(now) — Western Blue-Winged Olive

Stage: On emergersApproach: Emerger or dryActivity: 63%
Also:Black Midge61%
Peak emergence window5 food groups active

Peak activity at 11am — Western Blue-Winged Olive (Western Blue-Winged Olive, Peak emergence window)

Sub-surface · on the nymphunder the surface

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey(1)

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Evidence
Records-basedModerate confidence

Based on species-occurrence records, not local invertebrate surveys.

Through the year
0–3 scale · September highlighted
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Trout seasonSeason
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Brown DunHatch
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Western Green DrakeHatch
2
2
Flav (Small Western Green Drake)Hatch
2
3
2
Mahogany DunHatch
2
2

Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today
Cutthroat Trout fly box
SD
Sex Dungeon
2-6 · Pattern
Proven pattern for this period
Permits & access
Permit required — see local rules.
  • Open all year (statewide default)
  • A UDWR Blue Ribbon fishery — handle wild fish with care
  • Verify all boundaries and limits against the UDWR 2026 Fishing Guidebook.
What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Other water nearby · 1
Price River
34 km
Brown trout · Rainbow trout
Gallery · 1
  1. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

Huntington Creek is the Wasatch Plateau's reward for getting off the Wasatch Front — a tumbling, limestone-influenced canyon creek up the Hwy 31 corridor southwest of Price, and one of Utah's designated Blue Ribbon fisheries. It comes in two forks worth knowing. The Left Fork, from the Forest Service campground up into the headwaters and all its little tributaries, is artificial-flies-and-lures-only, high-quality water for wild browns, cutthroat and rainbows; the upper Right Fork, below Electric Lake, runs flies-only and adds a tailwater chill to the mix. It's small-stream fishing in the best sense: short accurate casts, attractor dries the trout still rise to, a dropper for the doubters, and careful wading on a cobbled bed. Easy access off the highway and the campgrounds. Spring runoff colours and bumps it; from when it clears in early summer through autumn it's a lovely, low-pressure plateau creek where the fish haven't been educated half to death.

  • Limestone
Water quality · US Clean Water Act
  • Aquatic life: Impaired
  • Recreation: Impaired
What this classification means

Recreation: Bacteria/pathogen advisory — mind wading cuts and immersion.

EPA ATTAINS assessment unit 'Huntington Creek-3-1' (UT14060009-003_01), 2024 Integrated Report. Aquatic Life use: Not Supporting. Listed impairment causes: Temperature, Oxygen Depletion, pH Acidity Caustic Conditions. This is a Clean Water Act assessment-unit classification (the US analogue of WFD), not a live reading.

Status is for the Clean Water Act assessment unit covering this reach.

EPA ATTAINS (Clean Water Act) · UT14060009-003_01

The full read · show the working · for Cutthroat Trout · confidence 90%
How the 71 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature82 × 28%23.0
Flow60 × 22%13.2
Clarity85 × 18%15.3
Feeding Time60 × 13%7.8
Pressure75 × 7%5.3
Insect activity54 × 12%6.5
Conditions total= 71
Can you trust it?
Water temperatureair-to-water estimateestimated
Level / flowon-river gaugeobserved
Prey activitymodelled from regional profilemodelled
What would change the calculation
The dawn and dusk windows score higher than the midday lull.
Directions
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Seasons & zones
  • Trout 1 January → 31 December
Related guides
Euro Nymphingsubsurface methods
Booking & contacts