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Scofield Reservoir is a public lake in Carbon County and Utah County, Utah, managed by Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. It is public water managed for fishing by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Public access confirmed via UDWR stocked water.
One of Utah's big two-story reservoirs (Flaming Gorge, Strawberry, Bear Lake, Fish Lake, Jordanelle, Scofield, Starvation) — rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout up top, lake trout ('mackinaw') and kokanee salmon in the depths, and smallmouth bass and yellow perch on several; trophy lake trout and Bear Lake's endemic Bonneville cisco run.
Scofield Reservoir covers about 2,767 acres in the Southeastern Region region. Anglers here mostly fish for bear lake cutthroat trout, cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, tiger muskie; tiger trout, walleye, wiper are also on record. The nearest other mapped waters on PiscaMaps are Woods Canyon Creek and Winter Quarters Creek.
Species from UDWR fish-stocking records (1979–2024, joined by water ID), PiscaMaps water-type profiles and hand research.
Night fishing: No statewide night-fishing closure in Utah; a few waters have seasonal or hourly restrictions (spawning closures, some community ponds and state-park waters) — check the current Utah Fishing Guidebook for the specific water.
Boats: The big reservoirs (Flaming Gorge, Lake Powell, Strawberry, Bear Lake, Jordanelle, Willard Bay, Deer Creek, Starvation) take trailered boats via a state-park or Forest Service ramp; mountain lakes are car-top or hike-in and rivers are drift-boat or wade. Utah has a serious quagga-mussel problem — every boat must be inspected and, if it has been on Lake Powell, decontaminated, and all boaters must complete the mussel-aware course and pay the AIS fee.
Bank & bivvy camping: Roughly two-thirds of Utah is federal land — dispersed camping is allowed on most BLM and Forest Service ground along these waters, plus developed state-park and Forest Service campgrounds on nearly every major reservoir. Some Wasatch Front canyon watersheds (Little/Big Cottonwood, City Creek, Parleys) ban all camping and dogs.
Tackle: The general Utah trout limit is 4, but many waters carry reduced limits, slot limits, artificial-only or catch-and-release rules -- the Green River, the Provo, Blue Ribbon water and the cutthroat-conservation streams especially -- and native chub, sucker, Colorado pikeminnow, bonytail and June sucker must be released. Check the current Utah Fishing Guidebook.
Boat ramps: 2 mapped — Scofield Reservoir Boat Launch, Boat ramp.
Camping: 1 site mapped nearby — Campsite.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors.
Anyone 12 or older needs a Utah fishing licence — the resident annual is about $40, the non-resident annual about $100, with 1-day (~$16 resident / ~$25 non-resident), 3-day and 7-day options. There is no separate trout stamp. Children under 12 fish free (or on a $5 youth licence to keep their own limit). Buy from the Division of Wildlife Resources at wildlife.utah.gov. A Utah fishing licence covers this water — it is on the UDWR stocking programme.
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