Freestone · Limestone · Utah

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.

Good · Rainbow Trout
Parachute Adams · 12-18
Goodlive now
A proper day on the water
Low and clear — careful approach country. Stay small, stay accurate.
75% confidence
What moved it
  • LevelDry recentlyNo gauge reading
  • Water temp17.8°C
  • ClarityClear
Today's fly
Parachute Adams
Parachute Adams12-18
High-confidence seasonal pick
Conditions on the water
Estimate
Level
Dry recently
No gauge reading
Water temp17.8°C
ClarityClear
Weather22°C
WindNW 11 km/h
Pressure1019 hPa
Rain · recent0.4 mm
Rain · ahead12.5 mm

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

Water temperature for Rainbow Trout
Ideal
18°C est.ideal 1018°C
0°14°28°
How to fish it · for Rainbow 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 temperature is right today, though time of day could be better.
Hatch timeline · todayQuiet day

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Sub-surface · on the nymphunder the surface

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey

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Evidence
ModelledModerate confidence

Modelled from regional ecology — no survey or occurrence data for this water yet.

Through the year
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Western Green DrakeHatch
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Flav (Small Western Green Drake)Hatch
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Mahogany DunHatch
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American March BrownHatch
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Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today
Rainbow Trout fly box
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
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 lifeImpaired
  • RecreationImpaired
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 Rainbow Trout · confidence 75%
How the 76 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature100 × 28%28.0
Flow60 × 22%13.2
Clarity85 × 18%15.3
Feeding Time50 × 13%6.5
Pressure75 × 7%5.3
Insect activity61 × 12%7.3
Conditions total= 76
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
Seasons & zones
  • Trout1 January31 December
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