Utah Lake Fishing Industry

For a while, Utah Lake seemed inexhaustible. The Timpanogos had fished it for centuries; when frost and crickets ruined the settlers' crops, its fish kept them alive too. A commercial fishery followed, one of early Utah's real industries, seines hauling fish out by the ton to salt and sell across the territory. It could not last. Overfishing during spawning, carp dumped in to replace the vanishing natives, sewage and mill waste — the lake that once held millions of fish now runs thick with carp. Its June sucker, found nowhere else on earth, barely hangs on.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bridal Veil Falls — 7.6 mi
  A dramatic double waterfall cascading 607 feet into Provo Canyon
• Sundance Mountain Resort — 11 mi
  Robert Redford's intimate, arts-minded ski resort on the slopes of Mount Timpanogos, in the North Fork of Provo Canyon.
• Aspen Grove — 12 mi
  The mountain-base trailhead for Mount Timpanogos and Stewart Falls
• Alpine Loop Summit — 12 mi
  The 8,000-foot high point of the Alpine Loop, face to face with Mount Timpanogos

More markers nearby

• Settlement of Provo — steps away
• Old Tabernacle Lintel Stone — 0.7 mi
• The American Family — 0.8 mi
• Dan Jones, Missionary — 1.7 mi