tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74996070571712278992024-02-18T22:22:18.890-07:00Hnaf's Fishing BlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-993133750243805442021-07-01T21:38:00.001-06:002021-07-01T21:39:31.234-06:00Well, I've posted here again after a long absence... Today Alex, Max and I made it out to Lincoln Beach @ Utah Lake for some time on the tubes!<p> It's been quite some time since I've posted anything here. Not that we have not been out fishing, but somehow I just got out of the habit of both taking enough pics from trips as well as taking the time to write things up while they were fresh in mind. With Alex having graduated this year from High School and Max just being a bit older, both have asked that we try to get out to do more fishing. So July 1st isn't really a fast delivery on those requests, but hey we did finally get out. ;)</p><p>So we set our alarms for 5am (not as early as we should have as it turns out) with the intent of getting to Lincoln Beach and on the water as quick as we could. Well it took us longer to get on the way and then getting setup took longer than it should have. A bit of our practice for Alex and I, Max is also still in the learning things well enough that he can just get to it on his own without a lot of guidance.</p><p>So we were still setting up and almost ready to launch a bit after 7:15am. Everyone was smiles and happy to be there though.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPylK06Fq0BtA5KHtZP-N9exzCGwCih2h-65gQx-PoXWc5AeMgm3NkXLl4mccjFWgut2STEmTGzGgHO6kc4JikyCOq41bmuUiDtPFFLnV8oNTjwK2othlylCBeh3vWIsH29EURQjCI3To/s4032/PXL_20210701_131805934.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPylK06Fq0BtA5KHtZP-N9exzCGwCih2h-65gQx-PoXWc5AeMgm3NkXLl4mccjFWgut2STEmTGzGgHO6kc4JikyCOq41bmuUiDtPFFLnV8oNTjwK2othlylCBeh3vWIsH29EURQjCI3To/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_131805934.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>We were unsure how the wind was going to treat us, but as we got there it was nearly non existent (and actually didn't really ever show up until about noon where we had a light wind from the north east).</p><p>Alex got going first with Max right after and I followed the two out of the harbor.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8ZN0hxvt-IYmAyraEa9fFjLaNTzKjoyVQGKPDHuMgxNEKcgDBptXgD6llxkXGFMcZ_vmJ2W5Ign7J1bH0HGMsMUH76Yia9t_pBcchUOEOs_h3mZr7ozHIb6Tx9hDEkhmWroSJFxA8_g/s4032/PXL_20210701_131826585.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv8ZN0hxvt-IYmAyraEa9fFjLaNTzKjoyVQGKPDHuMgxNEKcgDBptXgD6llxkXGFMcZ_vmJ2W5Ign7J1bH0HGMsMUH76Yia9t_pBcchUOEOs_h3mZr7ozHIb6Tx9hDEkhmWroSJFxA8_g/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_131826585.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfYG6ggYRyOCkDaXDv3TcP90wVIiIYMZomuUBUyA5Hp2tlxFb2SjgSLZHD15y2K-viKDxbYBTZJAG8h-ZDXh8ToNkpVg5aO72NBGpCjA1RQaiIJxAgosOQEVN_qEiYICzC4mZ5UpdDhA/s4032/PXL_20210701_134813497.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfYG6ggYRyOCkDaXDv3TcP90wVIiIYMZomuUBUyA5Hp2tlxFb2SjgSLZHD15y2K-viKDxbYBTZJAG8h-ZDXh8ToNkpVg5aO72NBGpCjA1RQaiIJxAgosOQEVN_qEiYICzC4mZ5UpdDhA/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_134813497.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>I should note that before we launched, a fellow was fishing from the shore on the boat ramp and managed to pick up a couple young white bass. That gave us some hope that we might get some fish action as we worked our way down the channel, but no such luck. </p><p>Once we were out of the channel, Alex and Max opted to work the area north west of the channel, and I headed south east. Figured we could see who made the better choice and then adjust.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhThievGqOLHuvAv_0tGt4MgAFhdX4N7SRux9s02GWWktBBHgMn07nHgrEQoMokZej5gKO3bRqQHnHTUgDSqJLuoOPbvo9BuzAAYakoWaI_dKsxJ9n3ArbYJwBUijt-weAhHn6afjpt_wg/s4032/PXL_20210701_142444598.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhThievGqOLHuvAv_0tGt4MgAFhdX4N7SRux9s02GWWktBBHgMn07nHgrEQoMokZej5gKO3bRqQHnHTUgDSqJLuoOPbvo9BuzAAYakoWaI_dKsxJ9n3ArbYJwBUijt-weAhHn6afjpt_wg/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_142444598.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>As I kicked around I managed to snap a few nice pics of the overcast areas and the clouds moved through. Maybe one will end up being a zoom virtual background for me at some point. ;)</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYs-HEgvO7_2U-_dExZaydsQV1gy8XTmOLoKa1-WJQQdpgSa7ebQPZ8NdUyaDbsPHC8v3ERhSQ376-ekELivlfiRLD2xMMsq89f6LhHpW0K1lV1bzPrjPsh6uwqwW8o2e6RoSP4-rgHXU/s4032/PXL_20210701_142451092.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYs-HEgvO7_2U-_dExZaydsQV1gy8XTmOLoKa1-WJQQdpgSa7ebQPZ8NdUyaDbsPHC8v3ERhSQ376-ekELivlfiRLD2xMMsq89f6LhHpW0K1lV1bzPrjPsh6uwqwW8o2e6RoSP4-rgHXU/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_142451092.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoH_JaCuhNgDNxnxFz56dd5YACjg6lmfWhRjREMmHOgVVAGG2yk2ao_rw7oHCzR1G7JGfiwnf_PbdNfTqo_k77djVE3TGJ9B7ExF4jJjH2vBgAnVNPYQuwQqGagd6FhRCIUHrH27fKPqU/s4032/PXL_20210701_142456607.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoH_JaCuhNgDNxnxFz56dd5YACjg6lmfWhRjREMmHOgVVAGG2yk2ao_rw7oHCzR1G7JGfiwnf_PbdNfTqo_k77djVE3TGJ9B7ExF4jJjH2vBgAnVNPYQuwQqGagd6FhRCIUHrH27fKPqU/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_142456607.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>I'm not sure when the boys picked up their first bites/fish as we had not really been that chatty on the radios up to that point, but I ended up picking up a very young white bass on a pink curly tail grub that I had added a bit of worm to and was casting and retrieving on one rod while the other was soaking something I hoped would entice a nice catfish. The small white bass got sent back to grow up some more. So for me the worry of a zero trip at least was past.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVuFCl_aOQ0oFBM8A4DRvhR3BNytALVC3lBE8tNct2fwwn1rwPz77V9qDqNfioFK9Gt1KyfzV1TUrnnGGzyus1WDxTZThppDl6_qY9gaOZXIihPoTL5Yf-NhcZnWf6Hha7fcfJdT3jzGQ/s4032/PXL_20210701_144804555.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVuFCl_aOQ0oFBM8A4DRvhR3BNytALVC3lBE8tNct2fwwn1rwPz77V9qDqNfioFK9Gt1KyfzV1TUrnnGGzyus1WDxTZThppDl6_qY9gaOZXIihPoTL5Yf-NhcZnWf6Hha7fcfJdT3jzGQ/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_144804555.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The carp were out today, though near me they were not schooled up as I've seen before. Instead they were just all over moving around solo with the top of their backs just out of the water. I should have taken a few picks of these as they came up really close to me, including one that bumped into my legs. I ended up throwing out a bobber with a worm just a foot under it wondering if I could pick a carp up for some cutbait. Instead a nicer sized white bass took interest and I now had my first fish in the basket.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhie4MOqQC-qUP_TQoaggJkKKKn2r6uEwDryF-pI-s5-r6yzw1vQ4oAHJIaqBLTvGQoVzJ71fLNHApQGCgLfIoqpUdyQ1svBlGykAmiD-Dm2afyRfAUW4iZVvkzHIbjgFbdwLpR5LanR80/s4032/PXL_20210701_153416994.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhie4MOqQC-qUP_TQoaggJkKKKn2r6uEwDryF-pI-s5-r6yzw1vQ4oAHJIaqBLTvGQoVzJ71fLNHApQGCgLfIoqpUdyQ1svBlGykAmiD-Dm2afyRfAUW4iZVvkzHIbjgFbdwLpR5LanR80/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_153416994.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>I think the boys had each had some action by this point. Alex I believe had at least one fish in his basket and both had had a number of inquiries on their offerings they had been trying. My cell also got a lot of attention (notifications) so ask I took a look to see what was going on I found work was having an issue and I had a couple ideas on how to help. So I ended up on a con call with 2 coworkers helping them get things sorted out and right in the middle of that (both rods I had out at this point were for cats so I could pay attention to the con call) one of the poles had a big hit and something started pulling line out fast. Cell phone was set to speaker phone mode so I just kept going as I started to retrieve whatever was on my line. It ended up being quite the fight and when I was able to weigh and measure it, it turned out to be about 26" and about 6.75lbs which might be the largest cat I've caught to date. I didn't get a photo of this one out on the water, but I did let the boys know and Max was impressed with the size I told them. Phone call was done and things had been sorted out for work, so I started to head toward where the boys were fishing. A few minutes into that trek I had another big hit on a cat pole and big kitty #2 for the day ended up in my basket. This one a touch smaller than the other about 24" and about 6.4lbs. I do have a pic of this one. :)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqI7spXiEoHihI2Cd5WYLvfdwbY-H_NY9bnDhOxg5eRgDkev1ymKr2vI5Bk2OW-Rrm_py9QPkxnFMRUt5SMmJxRS-aBczvF15nZqZb3SKJ6aa5A4UEw9-G0U-OtCpgMdWliwFck7nYFo/s4032/PXL_20210701_172238537.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqI7spXiEoHihI2Cd5WYLvfdwbY-H_NY9bnDhOxg5eRgDkev1ymKr2vI5Bk2OW-Rrm_py9QPkxnFMRUt5SMmJxRS-aBczvF15nZqZb3SKJ6aa5A4UEw9-G0U-OtCpgMdWliwFck7nYFo/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_172238537.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The boys were excited about my news of a 2nd big cat and caught me up on their progress. Alex had a couple white bass, and a few mud cats in his basket. Max had a nice channel cat in the upper teens of inches in size. So nobody was batting zero for the day. Both had had a few on that got lost on the retrieve. Both were having a good time and working well together (always a good thing).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZ4YzGrF1r3WenvWopMyLObYPwc8ppP70ThLykvmNNFeJB_NWwMZEKCfmIf2yjVnb2JWwGsOYGUnDEx0O54GAbPzf6t9bj909lXXaGjLdnyRvHMJiFjc0G5WjAJaZkvxn_xQbBoUQV0U/s4032/PXL_20210701_180109189.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZ4YzGrF1r3WenvWopMyLObYPwc8ppP70ThLykvmNNFeJB_NWwMZEKCfmIf2yjVnb2JWwGsOYGUnDEx0O54GAbPzf6t9bj909lXXaGjLdnyRvHMJiFjc0G5WjAJaZkvxn_xQbBoUQV0U/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_180109189.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvLEJfoAMC-Kg3dNqsitoErrh5-01xUwqyoizwsZulbEuLfJxHn99MAIhOWhhni4dftaTMCiQv5_jT5E11-E9BsVzRxjlGhrCDyAZo1_8-7P_9sZHVe7Z0_Dq3J9tP4BGGimXglncRFI/s4032/PXL_20210701_180116527.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvLEJfoAMC-Kg3dNqsitoErrh5-01xUwqyoizwsZulbEuLfJxHn99MAIhOWhhni4dftaTMCiQv5_jT5E11-E9BsVzRxjlGhrCDyAZo1_8-7P_9sZHVe7Z0_Dq3J9tP4BGGimXglncRFI/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_180116527.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>It was about noon at this point so we talked things over and opted to start heading back in. I don't think anyone had anymore action on the way back in. Alex was in front and Max brought up the rear as we worked back into the channel heading to the ramp.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjPn4JPi_tJgasCIx6sasDczqECsyTx4La5QuGB7hmRl50LUT372kImVaJDKdimBuHo2kWLEQSjaG8nQGeZxRrRWZ0fQts11B1EHlzNRmEMOMAwSFhdoZ_cIjhvVxu5zt7jY1LAR5hm8g/s4032/PXL_20210701_183139341.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjPn4JPi_tJgasCIx6sasDczqECsyTx4La5QuGB7hmRl50LUT372kImVaJDKdimBuHo2kWLEQSjaG8nQGeZxRrRWZ0fQts11B1EHlzNRmEMOMAwSFhdoZ_cIjhvVxu5zt7jY1LAR5hm8g/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_183139341.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5UADN63_XgOn9_GvPh4-HkRSHzUNe2SBVi-AKvoAu97brsvz8kInb5Re9s6T9OTPxVpN3HxCKGbY6NpZ3_XtgrWiqwHCrhkmtcxP0dd9tUoi7PiUBnJ-KQXSgPuPSqiLOcr3SWlrqQq8/s4032/PXL_20210701_183122559.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5UADN63_XgOn9_GvPh4-HkRSHzUNe2SBVi-AKvoAu97brsvz8kInb5Re9s6T9OTPxVpN3HxCKGbY6NpZ3_XtgrWiqwHCrhkmtcxP0dd9tUoi7PiUBnJ-KQXSgPuPSqiLOcr3SWlrqQq8/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_183122559.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>When we got home we got ready to process the fish. We set them out though first for a couple pictures to sum up the day. :)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOV__vc_-koVcaO16SCAKldjfv9dkGFaT6SSyqqR113aO9Ua9U5zoB4BG9qDJDQo8dw8PFD6s461OCgieJ3-Vbn0l815oiLFto-ThczXgvSAdeIGmNV6RfbtRPvyohuuIJTpsrM5r0Ecw/s4032/PXL_20210701_214116049.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOV__vc_-koVcaO16SCAKldjfv9dkGFaT6SSyqqR113aO9Ua9U5zoB4BG9qDJDQo8dw8PFD6s461OCgieJ3-Vbn0l815oiLFto-ThczXgvSAdeIGmNV6RfbtRPvyohuuIJTpsrM5r0Ecw/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_214116049.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicF5FMapyur67vJ4hyphenhyphenQFT7TS40DswXp9pPe4WTaXRQhb8S6KDVA9rGvcstXPDUjqdH_R18-5V-YJGDseP7ocMGXuqToRi0KSIameDbbjKnDCNW7jXEB687mAXH-qqT7qgjETftDtX9s20/s4032/PXL_20210701_214127794.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicF5FMapyur67vJ4hyphenhyphenQFT7TS40DswXp9pPe4WTaXRQhb8S6KDVA9rGvcstXPDUjqdH_R18-5V-YJGDseP7ocMGXuqToRi0KSIameDbbjKnDCNW7jXEB687mAXH-qqT7qgjETftDtX9s20/w640-h480/PXL_20210701_214127794.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>We fried up some of the fish for dinner that turned out quite nice. Was really nice to have been able to get out and the weather worked out really well for us!</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-62685598854568086312017-01-17T00:03:00.002-07:002017-01-17T00:03:29.718-07:00January 16th, Ice Fishing with Alex @ RockportWell after the recent weather and some sparse info form the online forums it was an uncertain hope that Alex had to go out on the ice today as part of his Birthday. Last night we made the call to head to Rockport after seeing enough info to suggest the edges were solid enough and that others had had recent success for trout there. Strawberry and Pineview were other contendors but both we lacked enough information to go with confidence (or enough anti-slush monster drive). So we set our alarms for 5:40am and manged to get on our way just after 6:00am. When we got to Rockport temps were hovering between 0 and -1 (Fahrenheit). There was a thick fog/cloud layer right on the reservoir. Per some of the info we saw on BFT we headed to the main boat launch were we headed out on the ice and south about 1/2 mile. When we got onto the ice we were farm from the first ones there. I would expect that there were a couple dozen other camps already setup near the boat ramp or in other places we could see around the lake. We setup near a point in about 32' FOW. We did not have a target depth but tried to look for recent areas of activity that had signs of success. Between the 4 lines we had out we had offerings at the 12', 20', 25' and on the bottom. Just as we were setting up we saw signs on the bottom though by the time we got a lure down there whatever was on the flasher had left. Maybe about 20-30 minutes into things we had a first bite and pulled up a nearly 10' perch. Sized enough that we kept it. A while later we picked up a second about the same size. Then that left us in a dry spell for a while with a few missed nibbles mixed in. We moved all but one line down to the bottom since the perch had made a showing and Alex left the last line up at about 12' FOW to keep an option open for the upper water column. His line on the bottom was the next one to get some attention and he set a hook on something much larger then the perch I had pulled in. After a nice fight he pulled up a bit of a surprise for us (we just didn't expect it). A nice nearly 18" brown trout.
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The next fish was a while later and I managed to bring up a foot long rainbow that looked healthy enough (not a snake), maybe a planter from last year? Then after a longer break Alex picked up a rainbow as well, though we sent it back to get bigger.
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Shortly before noon we decided to call it a day. Things were still quite cold, even in the tent, and we had both been able to catch a few even though it was a bit slow. The sun by this time had burned off the fog/clouds that had been over the lake and things had slowed down a lot. We never though did get much of an idea of how others were doing. When we left the ice the number of other camps out there had nearly doubled (maybe not quite) compared to when we got on. So with others sticking out there maybe others were having a faster day to keep them going then we were, but we were happy with the trip we had. Here's a peek at what we brought home with us.
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Hard to beat a nice day out with my now 14 year old son Alex. :) Happy Birthday Alex!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-13858075307656697042016-07-23T17:09:00.003-06:002016-11-16T20:04:08.131-07:00!Fishing, but still a worthwhile adventure...So early July we went looking at RV trailers more with the intent of starting to formulate opinion of what we wanted so that as we look at timing, budget, and whatever options we saw that we thought were things we would want that we could start to form up a checklist of tasks we need to cover so that we could get an RV trailer...<br />
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Well, as such any good plan is just there to be messed up. As was ours, but in the end in a good way. We came home that day having bought our new trailer. We found a nice deal on a model that was to be moved out quickly as the new years model was already available. Nice enough that it kind of helped answer the question of should we buy used to save some $ or push up to a new model. Anyway, we ended up with a <a href="http://starcraftrv.com/products/travel-trailers/launch-ultra-lite/floorplans-specifications/24rls">StarCraft Launch 24RLS</a> (Link goes to the 2017 model, but the units are close enough for anyone interested in looking.<br />
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Anyway we got it home and made plans to get out for our first trip which we did to Starvation over the weekend of July 9th. Was a bit warm, and we lacked the generators sufficient to run the AC, but it was a nice weekend. Kids were ecstatic to have a trailer and to be able to camp out more often more easily. We too fishing gear and float tubes with us. Shore fishing was a zero for success, but we did get out Saturday morning for a short run on the tubes. Alex on his and I was on mine... Max was desperate to go out too so I first tried to put him on my lap, but the tube didn't sit right in the water with the weight that far imbalanced. So I put away my usual cooler that rides behind me and put him back behind my seat in the triangle there. My Outcast Prowler has a fully inflated seat base that also extends into that triangle area and this worked very well for Max. He essentially lounged with his feat over the side back there and fished off my right shoulder. Before we headed back in as the afternoon wind started to pick up Max had pulled in a ~16" small mouth bass and a foot long walleye. Both were first catches for him for those species. Alex and I also managed to hook up with a small mouth each. Alex's jumped the line at his tube and mine turned out to be a hard fighting 6" that got sent back to grow some. Rest of that trip went nicely and set the stage for us to plan our next adventure in the new trailer.<br />
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So this weekend we headed up Wednesday afternoon toward the Daniels Summit area trying to camp near the Adamson area between point of pine and mudrock. We got there without any issue, though pulling through the ditch showed that I probably need to adjust the hitch to ride an inch or 2 higher up. We found the herder camps in full force in the usual areas including the unattended (at least while we were there looking for a camp spot) trailers with dogs chained up. Since we had brought Diego and Hazel with us (they both lack social etiquette in how they interact with other dogs) we opted to not camp near these areas and headed up main canyon to look for a spot there. We found a spot a bit over 1/2 way up the road and took it kind of worried that we would not find another higher up. In hind sight we could have found a spot or two higher that might have been as nice if not nicer, but this was still a nice spot with a fantastic view.<br />
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The obvious issue with main canyon is the traffic on it from ATVs. We were off the road enough that dust wasn't a huge issue and the noise wasn't bad either. The trees near the trailer offered some fun places for the kids to adventure and fort build in. Temps were nicer then the previous trip to Starvation so the AC not being usable still didn't turn out to be that big of a deal. Where we camped did prove to have some nice options for going on some walks/hikes. So we were able to wear the dogs out quite well taking them with us. They got to have a meet and greet with the local cattle. Apparently their manners were not up to the cattle's level and the cattle left... in a bit of a rush...;) Hazel I think thought it might be her off putting body odder so she even tried rolling in a nice fresh cow pie to be less off putting... That didn't help with the cattle and only resulted in another hike down to the stream to bath her... Anyway we had some nice hikes, kids got to do the kid fort/imagination thing, spent time playing games together, roasted foods on the fire with roasting sticks, saw some nice stars at night and aspired to do it again in the end.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-3929614869593213112016-07-23T17:09:00.002-06:002016-07-23T17:12:06.256-06:00New RV (!Fishing I know...) and 2 adventures, 1 with a side of fishing...So early July we went looking at RV trailers more with the intent of starting to formulate opinion of what we wanted so that as we look at timing, budget, and whatever options we saw that we thought were things we would want that we could start to form up a checklist of tasks we need to cover so that we could get an RV trailer...<br />
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Well, as such any good plan is just there to be messed up. As was ours, but in the end in a good way. We came home that day having bought our new trailer. We found a nice deal on a model that was to be moved out quickly as the new years model was already available. Nice enough that it kind of helped answer the question of should we buy used to save some $ or push up to a new model. Anyway, we ended up with a <a href="http://starcraftrv.com/products/travel-trailers/launch-ultra-lite/floorplans-specifications/24rls">StarCraft Launch 24RLS</a> (Link goes to the 2017 model, but the units are close enough for anyone interested in looking.<br />
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Anyway we got it home and made plans to get out for our first trip which we did to Starvation over the weekend of July 9th. Was a bit warm, and we lacked the generators sufficient to run the AC, but it was a nice weekend. Kids were ecstatic to have a trailer and to be able to camp out more often more easily. We too fishing gear and float tubes with us. Shore fishing was a zero for success, but we did get out Saturday morning for a short run on the tubes. Alex on his and I was on mine... Max was desperate to go out too so I first tried to put him on my lap, but the tube didn't sit right in the water with the weight that far imbalanced. So I put away my usual cooler that rides behind me and put him back behind my seat in the triangle there. My Outcast Prowler has a fully inflated seat base that also extends into that triangle area and this worked very well for Max. He essentially lounged with his feat over the side back there and fished off my right shoulder. Before we headed back in as the afternoon wind started to pick up Max had pulled in a ~16" small mouth bass and a foot long walleye. Both were first catches for him for those species. Alex and I also managed to hook up with a small mouth each. Alex's jumped the line at his tube and mine turned out to be a hard fighting 6" that got sent back to grow some. Rest of that trip went nicely and set the stage for us to plan our next adventure in the new trailer.<br />
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So this weekend we headed up Wednesday afternoon toward the Daniels Summit area trying to camp near the Adamson area between point of pine and mudrock. We got there without any issue, though pulling through the ditch showed that I probably need to adjust the hitch to ride an inch or 2 higher up. We found the herder camps in full force in the usual areas including the unattended (at least while we were there looking for a camp spot) trailers with dogs chained up. Since we had brought Diego and Hazel with us (they both lack social etiquette in how they interact with other dogs) we opted to not camp near these areas and headed up main canyon to look for a spot there. We found a spot a bit over 1/2 way up the road and took it kind of worried that we would not find another higher up. In hind sight we could have found a spot or two higher that might have been as nice if not nicer, but this was still a nice spot with a fantastic view.<br />
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The obvious issue with main canyon is the traffic on it from ATVs. We were off the road enough that dust wasn't a huge issue and the noise wasn't bad either. The trees near the trailer offered some fun places for the kids to adventure and fort build in. Temps were nicer then the previous trip to Starvation so the AC not being usable still didn't turn out to be that big of a deal. Where we camped did prove to have some nice options for going on some walks/hikes. So we were able to wear the dogs out quite well taking them with us. They got to have a meet and greet with the local cattle. Apparently their manners were not up to the cattle's level and the cattle left... in a bit of a rush...;) Hazel I think thought it might be her off putting body odder so she even tried rolling in a nice fresh cow pie to be less off putting... That didn't help with the cattle and only resulted in another hike down to the stream to bath her... Anyway we had some nice hikes, kids got to do the kid fort/imagination thing, spent time playing games together, roasted foods on the fire with roasting sticks, saw some nice stars at night and aspired to do it again in the end.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-78881772769018282972016-06-12T01:01:00.001-06:002016-06-12T01:01:16.122-06:00June 7th @ StrawberryOn this year's week at Park City, Alex and I headed up to Strawberry on our only day on the tubes. Forecasts lead us to expect some slight wind, but for most of the time we were on the water it was quite glassy. We launched over on the "free" area of the east portal. Fish were breaking the surface all around us with some regularity. Water temps were in the mid 50's. So we both started pulling one line under a bobber with some type of jig under that. Then casting and retrieving the other line, trying to stay near the surface. After trying just about everything for the first hour and neither of us having had a bite I changed up a bit and put one line just off the bottom with a white jig and a bit of worm on it. The other line I was letting run deeper as I retrieved. We started to get some bites now.<br />
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So to give an overly short summary it was never "game on" really. We had to work for each fish we caught. Bottom jigging proved to be the best for us and often as my finder would chirp on a fish I could work the line I had down there and get a strike. Most fish we picked up off the bottom were in the 25'-35' fow range. Totals for the day were 8 fish. 2 for Alex and 6 for me. All were Cuts in the 17"-20" range except a single Rainbow (forgot to take a pic of him as I rushed it to the basket) that I brought home for dinner. One Cut was quite the "snake" and sure could use a few extra meals. Here are some pics from the day:<br />
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Was a good day out even if it was a bit slow. Still not sure I'm fishing Strawberry right from the tube, but were trying. Wind came up a bit more near noon so we called it a day and headed in. Was nice to be out with Alex. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-89785799335984787962015-05-22T00:24:00.002-06:002015-05-22T00:24:16.656-06:00May 20th Lincoln Beach, Utah LakeSo last weekend I picked up the start of a nice cold and that built up so that by mid day Tuesday I was about done in. Ended up opting to stay home to get some downtime on Wednesday. As I was getting ready to turn in though on Wednesday I saw the post that TubeDude had made the week before about the DWR looking for help at Lincoln Beach to gather up female white bass. Hmm that sounds relaxing and a good way to "get better" and the weather checked out too. So plans were made.<br />
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Loaded the vehicle up and set the alarm for 5am... Should have set it earlier so the obligatory 2-3 snooze presses would not have put me so far behind my planned arrival. Ended up at the lake by 6:45am and was on the water by 7:00am.<br />
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TubeDude had posted that he might work between the boat launch and around the point to the L on the west side. I've never worked that way, was not sure I'd make it to the L but figured I'd work what I could and see something new. On my way out of the boat launch I picked up my first two fish. One about mid way and the other at the mouth of the launch. Both average sized crappie.<br />
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I heard TubeDude on the radio talking with someone that I think was Boat Load of Kids (BLK) comparing notes on their findings thus far. It was not clear where either was, but shortly after a boat came past me and asked how things were going. The voice matched the person Pat was talking to on the radio from what I could tell. I gave him my report of how things had been so far and he wished me luck and moved on. The weather system in the area made for some pretty sky art too...<br />
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Anyway as I worked north and a bit west from the lauch area making my way to the tip of the point I observed a few other bank tanglers as well a DWR boat that was setting up nets (presumably to see what white bass they could gather too). I did manage to pick up a couple white bass, and a cat fish in between, though but nothing to suggest any concentration of fish. I was in anywhere from 3' to 7' of water. Temps I think were in the 58'ish range???<br />
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While in the deeper water (7'-8') I did mark a lot of fish at about the 3'-4' depth. Figured they were carp as every once in a while one would jump and make a big splash. Did not see any clumps of carp though.<br />
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I kept on working my way around the point and I did manage to get to the first big orchard and about 1/2 the way into it before I figured I'd better start back both to not over do things and I was also not seeing anyone else really out there. I should point out that this area of the lake showed me something I've not seen from Utah Lake before. That is a ground contour that changes a lot going from just a couple feet deep to 8 or so feet deep. Clearly the rocky base there and maybe the springs are the reason for this but I can see now why the area has some of the appeal it does.<br />
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I did manage to pick up a couple more whites and I missed over the whole day about 5-6 others. So nothing to really celebrate, but still I managed 3 species and enough to take home to share with the kids. None of my whites were female...<br />
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As I headed back to the launch I heard Pat on the radio talking and he was ahead of me heading to done for the day. I figured at that point that he must have changed plans and gone south form the launch. I managed to get to the launch just as he was finishing up his cleanup. After posing for a pic for him we compared the days results. He did better for cats and also manged a white or two more. None of his were female (at least from the report at the time, a later post noted that some had under developed eggs). Picked up a few more tackle craft tips as I compared some of my creations with some of his recent creations. Was a nice day to have been out. :)<br />
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We got to the lake at about 6:30am as the sun was just rising. We drove around the the parking lot along the south dike road where the spring inlet comes into the reservoir. We looked around there to see how to launch our tubes and found a fisherman already fishing on the platform at the water. The stream itself was not deep enough to launch on and the walk to the platform was longer then we thought we wanted to try so we "thought" we could just go launch at the main ramp and kick over to the east side. I should state here that the goal was to fish the east side as the info we had gathered suggested that was the right place to target. So we will chalk this one up for both Jason's and my "poor judgement' in that we figured the distance from the boat launch to the east side to be "reasonable" to make. <br />
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So we did just that, we launched at the main launch and started to work our way along the southern shoreline east....<br />
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While we were just launching we did notice another pair of fishermen getting setup with their toons. As we were just kicking out one of these two fishermen started to kick out as well. He was between me and the south western shore. At first I didn't think much of it but as Jason and I reached the south shore line it had become clear that he was intent on "getting there first"... Well he didn't, but then really we all got there together but we were still a bit apart from each other so while this was odd right then it was no harm no foul.... I started to cast in toward the southern shore though to work the shallows there and he started to encroach on where I was casting. He would look my way once in a while but spent most of his time looking like he was trying hard to not see me.... Anyway it didn't take long and he kicked right between me and the shore where I had been fishing....<br />
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Figured it was worth letting him get his picture taken for the "special" way he treated others. Aside from taking the pictures I just held off casting and waited for him to pass and go along his way. I then moved out a bit deeper where Jason had been watching it all. About this time the fishing partner of this guy showed up on his toon (with trolling motor) just down the south shore east of us a bit. They looked like they were going to setup to fish there so we moved out further to get ready to just kick to the east shore, though we guessed wrong and they were setting up a rope from the toon with the trolling motor to the guy that had raced us to the south shore line... We got a good laugh watching these two. I'm not sure if this was their first time pulling someone around or not but it looks like they just tied the line to the frame on the second tube and it ended up pulling him at a 90 degree angle to the direction they were going. Well they then headed out but instead of working the southern shore they cut across the lake to go to the point. So that kind of kicked me in the ribs a second time that for that whole race to the south shore to beat us, then cut across me as I fished and then they didn't even really fish the southern shore line... Well not to look a gift horse in the mouth we noted that well that story is done and they are gone now somewhere we were not heading to. Happily that was the end of that part of the story.<br />
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Well it was not fast moving but we crawled our way to the east shore (btw looked it up later that's a solid mile and some change from the boat launch to the east shore) having stayed in about 7-9' of water most of the way. We both marked some fish but neither of us had had any bites at all. We had both changed up our offerings and depths we offered at. None of the marked fish suggested perch or a reason to work a specific area either. Though to be fair we are both soft water Mantua newbs running off some nice maps others (TubeDude) had shared before and some recent reports suggesting Bluegill an LMB on the east shore line.<br />
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Anyway, we finally made it to the east shore line in the south east corner. That was when we took inventory of how many other boats or craft were near us. There were 2-3 other boats working the east shore line south of the point. None though were right in the corner where we were. Then we noticed how shallow the water looked as we saw the weeds only a foot or two down. Well it wasn't as shallow as we thought as the depth was 5 feet deep but the weeds were 3-4' tall. Plus there were the nice globs of the bright green stringy and slimy moss growths mixed in with some of the other weeds. So this made casting anything that would not run just at the surface really hard. Made kicking through some areas hard too. Figured this might be why the other boats were not in this area. Well we got past this big garden of green just as we got into casting range of the tree lined shore. I figured we would have to turn north and work up toward where some of the other boats where when we had a first fish hit.<br />
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After this first one hit we worked this area and did well for us for the next 30-45 minutes. I ended up landing 6 (one released itself at the tube) and I think Jason landed 2 or 3 (he was slower to get over to my spot after I reported fish were hitting... :) ).<br />
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Just as things were looking bright the wind decided to change from the ever so slight and gentle breeze from the east that we kicked against to get across the lake to a more then you want to deal with lets go fly a kite type wind coming now from the west.... We tried to sit it out a bit over there hoping to keep the fishing going but the fish were done as least where we were and we knew we needed to start back with the time it would take to get back... As we were starting to head back I did get a bonus of seeing in the tree line a larger bird perch on a branch. It was a fairly large bird but it did not look like any of the other birds we had seen out on the water. It had it's back to me at first and I could not see anything other then the blue grey color to it's back and wings. It did turn and look my way a bit and gave me a better profile view that I snapped these pics (sorry it's a cell phone grade pic but I used what I had...)<br />
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Still not sure what kind of bird this was but it was cool to see. Anyway lets save the drama for the rest of the trip. Lets say Jason and I got the biggest workout we have had on tubes (and that includes multiple stops to rest letting our anchor's hold us while we rested a bit) and in the nest 2.5 hours we only made it about 2/3 of the way back to the boat launch with the wind fighting against us. We finally cried uncle and cut to the south shore line where we could see a spot that would let us get to the road fairly easily. Then I walked around the lake to get the vehicle from the parking lot at the boat launch. <br />
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Was a fun day even considering the extra workout we got from the bad distance judgement call as well as the wind from the west. It was nice to be able to be relaxed and out on the water and taking the time to make fun or yourself for the silly choices made and still smile for the fish caught and the time spent having fun. BTW all fish caught were returned except one fish a person. Though we can't take credit for being total conservationists... Chalk this one up for poor cell phone data coverage when we went to look up if Mantua had any specific regs for LMB. Though just about when Jason had finally downloaded the guide I had managed to call my Dad and get him to relay info from his proclamation. Now we both have the guide saved to our phones for next time.... :)<br />
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We both agree'd that this was about the most physically taxing day yet we have had on tubes (not nearly as bad as our slush adventure at Strawberry 2 winters ago) and the sore muscles and aches will linger for a couple days. But the smiles for the fun seem to made the soar and the ache seem well worth it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-49887574625660927542015-01-25T00:41:00.003-07:002015-01-25T00:43:51.624-07:003 Trips to Strawberry Reservoir on the IceSo I've been slow to write these up so I'm combining them into one post. <br />
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This all started on January 16th (Alex's Birthday) where he and I headed up to Strawberry to spend the morning together ice fishing. We got started a little slower then we wanted to but we still got up to the Strawberry Marina and onto the ice by about 10:30am. We had had some advice sent our way via a PM on BigFishTackle that suggested we take a right at the bottom of the marina boat launch and head into baddger bay. We were to target about 30' of water and fish between 12' and 25' down.<br />
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We got setup in 40' of water (there was a minor city forming up where we got told to try) as that was about as close as I felt was "polite" to be to others. The finder showed a number of fish marks that came through at various depths so we got our poles setup to try different levels and see what would happen. We probably stay'ed in that location longer then we should have, but it took until about noon before anything actually happened. Within about a 5 minute window I had one of my poles bend and I hooked into a nice ~18" Cut and a group just next to us also (at about the same depth as us) hooked into a Cut as well. Looked to be about the same size.<br />
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That was about as much action as we had (or anyone around us) for a while more. So we stayed there till just before 1pm and then we figured we would move and try another spot until we headed home. We moved over to just east of the boat launch a few dozen yards and setup in about 12' of water. Again about as close to others as we felt comfortable. We were there for less then 15 minutes before I had another on my line that was fighting quite well but before I could get it's head into the hole it broke off. Looks like it broke at the knot. I'd guess it was near the same size as my last fish, though it looked to have had a whiter tone to it's belly, maybe a rainbow? Anyway a bit after that Alex had a big bit on one of his lines and he missed the hook set. That was it until it was time to head home for the rest of our plans for Alex's birthday.<br />
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The next trip was on the 19th. Alex, Max and I headed back up to try again at Strawberry. We got an earlier start and got up to the lake and on the ice by about 9am. We didn't go to the same spot as it was already overrun with people. So we took the road that goes up to the "dry storage" area near the marina that gives you a view down toward Mud Creek. We parked along the road and pulled the sled down to the small bay north of the marina. There were only 2 - 3 other groups on the ice there and it looked like an interesting place to fish. We setup just on the outside of the bay on the southern end in about 20' of water. Goal for the day was to get both Alex and Max to land something, and a bonus would be that some of them might be rainbows we could take home for dinner.<br />
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Alex had his first fish landed by about 10am. It was a nice slot Cut so we snapped a couple pictures and sent it back.<br />
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Then about a half an hour later Alex landed #2 slot Cut. Even though Alex was only 10' over from Max and me it got me wondering what kind of a difference that might be making. Alex had had a strike or two that he had missed along with both of these nice fish and Max and I had had nothing.<br />
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Finally about 20 or so minutes later we had a fish near one of the poles Max and I were running that we saw on the finder. We watched it slide up to our lure and the pole tip dipped down. We set the hook and Max started to bring the fish in. Landed his first slot Cut for the day with a big grin on his face.<br />
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Things slowed down after that and just after noon we decided to move. Some of the other groups had left so we moved over to the north side of the bay and we were able to come back into the bay a bit. We lined up near a point and setup in about 12' of water. While setting up Alex found he was over a weed bed so we had him make sure he kept his lure just above the weeds and Max and I were weed free but about the same depth just a few feed further out then Alex was. <br />
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We had Max's pole get anther light bite that just dipped the tip every so slightly (and we were just lucky to be watching). So we set the hook and Max was at it again bringing in his #2 slot Cut, with just a bit more of a grin then the first.<br />
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The weather had been quite nice the whole day, though we learned Max's boots left a lot to be desired (hole in one let moisture in) but we all quite happy with the time spent on the ice. Max was also quite happy with the transportation arrangement he was able to negotiate for the trip back to the Jeep.<br />
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Then to finish the trip off here is a set of nice panoramics from up near the Jeep first looking north toward Mud Creek and then panning around to looking toward the marina.<br />
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The last of the 3 trips was on the 23rd. Jason and I planned to head up without any of the kids to do some fishing and see how well we could do. We got up to the lake and headed out on the ice by about 9:30 ( a bit slower then we intended, but due to technical difficulties we lost at least an half an hour ). The badger bay area was a small city when we got up there so we looked north toward mud creek and chose to go that way from the road up to the "dry storage" area at the marina. Similar to my last trip with Alex and Max. Though instead of going to the small bay just north of the marina we were going to go down to the "corner" that looked right north into the main lake body and toward Mud Creek. We chose to head to the SE corner where the point comes out into the water. We found an area and setup in about 21' of water.</div>
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First fish came in at about 11am. It was a nice slot Cut that we got a nice photo of and sent it back home.</div>
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The flasher/finder wasn't showing many fish at all, both fish caught came out of nowhere and hit. So we were not sure if we were at the right depth or location. So we started to spread out a bit. I setup one of my poles in closer to the shore, south of us, in about 10-12' of water. I was right over some weeds. The pole was maybe 15 or so yards from my main chair and I had the pole strapped into the holder for a bit of safety. While Jason and I were talking I kept an eye on both poles and then noticed the far pole was starting to curve, then bend, then as I started my dash toward it it tried to topple over into the hole (I was both glad to have the pole attached well to the holder as it would not have gone through and also happy I got there in time to grab it before I had to put the holder to the test)... Anyway after a really nice fight I brought up the first and only Rainbow that would later make a nice meal.<br />
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The rainbow measured out at about ~18" long and as the picture shows it was quite healthy looking.<br />
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Jason had during this time drilled another hole to put his second line in to increase our area. We kept watch for a while and I missed a strike on my pole near the sled (Jason saw the hit), but I was oblivious and it didn't give me a second chance.<br />
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The wind started to come in pretty strong from the north during the day so we had to bundle up to keep warm. This made it harder to watch your pole for a light bite. It also both helped keep the holes from fully icing over due to the wind but also seemed to help freeze at least parts of the holes faster from how cold it chilled things down to. Ice was looking really healthy for all the holes we put in it. Thickness ranged from about 9" to closer to 11". <br />
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We hung out for another hour after the rainbow was caught and then called it a day. The wives had some evening plans for us to get back to (dinner at Texas Roadhouse.... Mmm ribeye steak!) and we were happy to have had the day out.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-11813532485022044522015-01-03T15:02:00.003-07:002015-01-03T15:02:51.391-07:00First trip of the year to Manuta, January 2nd 2015Jason, Alex and I set out for our first fishing trip to Mantua. With the cold spell over since Christmas everyone seems to have been on edge waiting for reports of their favorite body of water to ice over and build up enough safe ice so that everyone can go try out their new toys they got for Christmas or just get out and scratch an itch that's been nagging for some time. For us it was a bit of both. Last year was our first real run at any ice fishing and we had some great times. Mantua was very good to us last year so it was fitting to want to target it again this year. <br />
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Reports for the last week had everyone expecting that by the 2nd or 3rd of January that Mantua would have enough safe ice for people to get out on. We made plans to get to the lake between 8:30am and 9:00am, not trying to be there too early nor too late to get a good start. We again parked in the area on the west side of the lake very near the highway turnoff. This is where we also parked last year. There were a lot of people already out on the lake when we got there, much like last year. The 2 main areas that had people were the SE corner with people spread along the shoreline and also near the boat ramp where people were more spread, not just along the shoreline. There were also a few groups setup north of the point along the east side and a few along the west side (near where we parked), but nearly nobody in the central part of the lake or north of that.<br />
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Last year we fished in about 9 FOW in the flats about 150 yards south of the north shoreline about 1/3 the way from the west shore. We did well on our first trip last year and still pretty good on the second to nearly the same place. I did not want to get ourselves into the thick zoo where moving around would be somewhat harder so I suggested we start in about the same place as last year. As we were not in the middle of everyone we punched a few holes as we moved to our spot to keep an eye on ice thickness. It was between 4-5" each time we tested. We got setup and punched a couple holes for each of us and started to get out lines in the water. I had my new Showdown 5.6 Dual beam to try out and was very eager to be able to see how it worked out. <br />
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Shortly after getting both of my lines down my 2nd line went bend with something pretty eager at the other end. A short fight later the first fish and first nice rainbow was brought to the surface of the ice. While trying to remove the hook from the rainbow my other line had some action and the first perch of the day came up as well. Not a bad way to get started at all!<br />
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Then a short bit later I had 2 more fish on the ice as well. Another perch and another rainbow. Both perch looked quite healthy and were probably between 10-11" long. I did not put a tape on them to measure. The second one (the one below) had eggs that were coming out as we handled the fish on the ice. The second rainbow, in hind sight, I should have sent back to grow up a bit more, but by the time I thought of that it had been on the ice long enough that it would not have been right to have returned it to the water. I was quite surprised at how quickly thin wet flesh (the fish's fins) were freezing up. The air temps were in the ~9 degree F when we got to the lake.<br />
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The second pic you can see the new Showdown toy :). It was very nice to have had today, though I can say I think that it's use would definitely be of greater use in deeper water. I was only able to see the one line I had in the same hole as the Showdown. I would think that in deeper water you might be able to monitor more then one (at the risk of having fish tangle them up I guess). I really liked the zoom into the bottom which was for 9-10 FOW really only just showing the upper or bottom half of the column, still it was nice to see the added detail where we were trying to hug the bottom.<br />
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Anyway, enough about the new toy. About this time we had a group show up near us ( a bit more out in the middle part of the lake then we were, but still close enough we could hear their conversation ) and they started to setup. They pulled out a gas auger and it seemed to start up without any issue and then they started to drill holes. That's where the "odd" aspect came in. Now I had just drilled 6 holes, 2 for each of us (Jason, Alex and myself) through 4-5" of ice with my Nils hand auger and it took only a few seconds for each hole to get punched. This other group was spending 20-30 seconds per hole with the gas auger. There were lots of comments being made about this not being how it usually was. Jason and I got wondering how bad a blade might need to be to have such issues. Anyway each time they moved to punch new holes they really had to work to get them made and I felt almost guilty to just stand up and in such short work have my hand auger make a new hole. Anyway this just further helped me understand that if your auger (regardless of type) is not working as it should it can sure put a damper on any ice fishing trip. So it will be good to ponder your gear and consider what other single points of failure you might have and consider (over time as your budget allows) how you might protect yourself so that a trip is not wasted due to what should/would have been a simple issue. Along those lines I did pick up a new cutting head for my Nils this year with some points I had at Cabelas so I have that particular issue in the simple to fix category.<br />
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Back to the fishing. Things slowed down a fair amount. Alex had by this point a couple fish on the ice, Jason had not had anything yet, and I had picked up another rainbow (this one got sent back to grow up though). We moved Jason to new holes on the north side of Alex and I (he had been to the south side of us) in a hope to get him on some fish if location was key. <br />
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Things slowed down quite a bit. Jason suggested we move in to a more shallow point so we moved about 1/2 way toward the north shore from where we were. We were now in about 6 FOW. Then in pretty close (~10 minutes apart) I pulled in 2 more rainbows that I chose to invite home as they were better sized fish. I was now done with trout (at least keeping any), Alex was not far behind me. He needed just one more to limit out and Jason had also manged to get his first fish (a rainbow) on the ice,<br />
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Alex was getting pretty proud of himself ( and I was feeling a bit of the proud dad ) as I watched him fish today. He was "doing his own thing" but in healthy way. What I mean is that instead of messing too much with the poles or trying to over do things, he was watching what others were doing and trying them out himself and then also adding his own twist to things. Such as jigging his lures just off the bottom in short smooth and subtle motions. He concluded after catching a few rainhows that his "secret trick" was to just a few times and then slowing drop his lure down till it rested on the bottom and then bring it up slowing and that this would produce a trout. Well I was in no position to suggest otherwise as before the day would end I think he caught and released the most trout.<br />
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Other then a few trout the move to the shallow didn't improve things and after a while we opted to move out further into the lake to see if we could get a bit deeper. So we moved south and a bit east in the direction of the point. We didn't get anywhere near the point nor did we cross the channel that runs from the boat launch up NE past the point. I would say we just approached the channel more then we were before. This water depth did not increase as much as we had thought it might. We ended up in about 11 FOW. <br />
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A slight breeze had picked up at this point and it was cold so we firgured this would be our last spot for the day so we got to it. While here Jason finished up his limit on trout and also picked up a nice perch. 2 of Jason's trout were quite good looking. One was a good sized, but had really brilliant colors to it (sorry not photo of this one) and the other was just one of the larger plump rainbows of the day for us. All perch were close to the same size, 10-11" long all looking to be in good condition/health. Alex and I also picked up some more trout that got sent back to get bigger before we called it a day.<br />
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At the end of the day all 3 of us had a limit of trout and at least 1 perch per person. We would have wished for more perch and some bluegill, but we are still learning that lake and may very well have not been in a good position for them. Regardless it was a fun day, the weather was nice enough, and we were fishing... :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-91170524411509132552014-11-08T22:10:00.002-07:002014-11-08T22:10:48.115-07:00Fall tube trip to Strawberry Reservoir (Mud Creek) with Alex and Jason.Kind of last minute we put this trip together as it has been so long since we had been able to get out for a fishing trip. We opted to give Strawberry a try today and based on a lot of posts/reports we figured we did not need to be there prior to sunrise. Most reports suggested 9am-11am was a productive window.<br />
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Anyway we made it up to the Mud Creek access point on the reservoir just after 9am. The morning mist over the water was pretty thick and limited visibility. Alex was worried that it would stay like this all day... This was Alex's second trip with his waders, first that we needed to bundle up to stay warm, and that took some extra time to get worked out. We were on the water by about 9:45am, a bit later then we intended but it was just in time for the mist to dissipate as the sun warmed things up. <br />
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As we got out on the water I rigged up a tandem rig with a white marabou jig I had tied last winter and another weightless tube jig higher up the line. I let this dangle below me just above the bottom as we kicked out into the 15+ foot depth. The other pole I started working different lures casting and retrieving. Jason had 2 lines out as well though one was under a bobber to keep his lures near the surface and the other was cast and retrieve. He was going to try out some new crank baits he got for his birthday. Alex had 2 lines out as well again like Jason, one was under a bobber working the surface while he cast and retrieved the other.<br />
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We were on the water for less then 30 minutes before the first fish was on shortly followed by a second fish. Jason and I both pulled in within minutes of each other nice cut throats that were in the slot, but fought well enough to build the days excitement. Jason said he had not even been working his crank bait properly with it floating mostly on the surface at the time his lure was taken.<br />
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I had set the goal to remember to get a picture of each fish this trip, including a picture of anyone I was close enough to photograph as they caught... But as goals often are, they are set high and we fall short.... So on my next fish which was a better looking cut again, I fumbled the fish on my lap as I measured it (again in the slot, but closer to the upper end) and off it went before I could think to snap a picture.<br />
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Alex reported having a big strike on his second pole and missed it being unpracticed in working two poles. With the changes in the regulations this year letting a second pole be used without needing a special permit Alex has been trying his hand at managing two poles. <br />
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Things slowed down after these first few and it was about an hour before the next event. When this one hit I could feel a difference and the hope for a nice rainbow that would join me in my basket was well timed. When the fish hit my line just stopped and then the fish jumped for me and then provided a fun and energetic fight bringing it in.<br />
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Things stayed slow but again about an hour later I managed another nice rainbow All the cuts up to this point and this rainbow had been on my white marabou jig. Kind of nice when something you make turns out to work well enough.<br />
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I missed a few more photos of cuts and missed a few fish strikes as well over the day, but as we started to work back toward the vehicle I brought a cut in that had had some birth defect or unfortunate accident previously. Worth a picture or two just for the odd look it had.<br />
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I brought in another rainbow as we worked our way back, failed to take a picture, and Jason let us know he had brought in a rainbow as well. He reported that it was the largest trout to date for him that he was able to land and keep. I'm not sure what the exact measurements were for it, but it was at the 20" mark or just above and very plump. My pictures don't do it fair...<br />
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Alex's basket was bare, but he agreed still that going fishing and coming back empty was still lots better then most anything else we could think of. I had my 3 rainbows in my basket and Jason had his nice rainbow.<br />
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All in all a really nice day, and long overdue I might add, to be back out on the water. Wind could have stayed away longer as the afternoon breeze made the workout getting back to the vehicle more taxing then I'd have liked. Otherwise it was a beautiful day on the water and I hope to get a couple more trips in at least before the hard deck forms up and ice fishing starts. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-73626413701656304392014-06-15T22:43:00.000-06:002014-06-15T22:43:20.631-06:00June 10th Deer Creek Island BayAs part of our annual Park City family vacation Alex, Jason and I took a trip over to Deer Creek on Tuesday (June 10th) to see how we could do.<br />
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Our first mistake (with a few perks) was to hope to launch at Charleston. The water level was down enough that you had a 50 yard mud flat walk just to get to the river channel and even then that was only a foot or less of water from what we could see. There were a lot of tire tracks that suggested others had tried previously to drive out but I was not willing to get stuck so we headed back to go to Island Bay to try there. On the walk back we found a box of flies and a spinner in fair enough shape so Alex added them to his stock. <br />
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When we got to Island Bay things looked much better. We did confirm that the spot along the fence near the island that we had parked at before and walked our tubes down from was marked no parking and no longer usable. So we paid our fee and went into the park proper. We parked at the end of the park near the island and carried our tubes to the water. That turned out to be further then we would have liked, but we got the job done.<br />
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Water temps were nearly 65 degrees when we launched and that had us questioning the waders. Though for Alex this was his first trip in his new pair of waders so he was happy to test drive them. I would say we didn't get on the water till just before 8am. While we were getting started we did see a lot of fish breaking the surface int he shallows near the island. Many had a "trout" look to them enough that we headed out to see if we could entice any. <br />
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Jason took point near the island and Alex and I worked a bit further north along the island. I was casting and retrieving some spinners as well as running some jigs down along the bottom keep my options open. My jig pole on the bottom had a little bump on it so I picked it up to feel for something more. Got a nice hook set when I felt some resistance and brought up the first fish of the day which turned out to be a Walleye about 16-17" long, my first DC Walleye.<br />
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A bit later I changed out my second line with a bubble and woolly bugger (white with gold accent) and a crappie nib. Just after casting it out and as I went to pick up the the spinner pole when the bubble/bugger pole went for a really nice bend. After a nice fight I pulled in a rainbow that was about 17" long. Not quite a starvation grade fish, but a lot better then the expected planter size I had "planned" on.<br />
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I had a number of bumps on the jigs that I kept near the bottom in depths from about 18' to 30'. I did manage one more hook up on a small mouth that was probably close to 8-9" long so I put him back to get bigger. After that all the other bumps I had I failed to get to in time or simply wiffed... Jason pulled in a slightly bigger but very skinny small mouth that he also put back to get bigger.<br />
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Then Jason had something on his line that was peeling out line and forced a silly grin on his face... :) I'm not sure I know what lure he was using but it might have been a meps like spinner that was firetiger colored. He ended up landing a nice rainbow the same size as the one I had already pulled in earlier.<br />
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Alex had moved around a lot but had not had any action until we were just about to head in and he had a nice strike that he missed the hook set on. He reported that the day was still very fun to have been out and that his new waders were very nice to use. That should open the door for us to take him up to Washington Lake on a later trip where even in the warmth of summer you need waders to keep warm enough in the high lake water.<br />
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I failed to take the camera and didn't want to try to do pics with the cell phone so I ended up with nothing to show for this trip... We took our 3 fish, walleye and 2 trout, back with us and cooked them up and shared them with the families back in Park City. Everyone said they were good. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-61662564320943916822014-05-19T00:00:00.000-06:002014-05-19T00:00:02.094-06:00Another round of jig making... SWM jigsSo Jason gave me some hooks for my bday last month and I've now gotten started on turning them into something to take out on the water. Nothing really new this time other then some of the color combos and that these are larger then I'd cast before with this mold and the intended hooks made for the mold. I had cast some on wire before though of these sizes and made spinners out of them. So here's the initial picture of them. Note I've not yet painted the eyes on them or put the top coat over the eyes.<br />
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Weather was looking great and the water was calm and glassy. So we kicked out and started to pitch plastics as we worked out into the channel before heading out to the main lake. We didn't get any response to the plastics nor to the cat rigs we were dragging as well while we moved out. Water is lower then my previous trips and temps were in the mid 50's at launch. Once on the main lake we got a surprise look at the number of boats that were out there. For a Thursday there sure were a lot of people that SHOULD have been at work... Nobody really every bothered us, nor did they really get near us (though maybe they knew something we didn't). We moved down the shoreline toward the feed lots. We had to stay pretty far out from the shore line to get into a depth greater then about 8'.<br />
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I was a bit further down the shoreline on the way to the feed lot when I managed the first fish of the day for use, a nice cat. Never measured it but it looked close to 20" long.<br />
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Not that much later Jason landed the first wiper. I was a bit off so the picture leaves a lot to be desired.<br />
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We had a breeze come up just enough to put a light ripple on the water but things stayed pretty darn mellow for the day.<br />
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Some time just before noon we started to head back toward the marina. Jason had 2 wipers in his basket at this time and I still just had the 1 cat. While approaching the marina Jason brought in his 3rd wiper to fill his limit. He then tried to focus on adding a cat to his basket. I was able to add my first wiper to my basket a bit later.<br />
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We ended up drifting down past the marina seeing if we would get anything more as we approached 2pm and when nothing much more happened we headed back in. While cleaning up a fellow fisherman stopped over to see how our day had gone and reported that he had dome quite well trolling over on the west side and south side of the lake. He noted that the crappie were out along the south end too. Some food for thought for a future trip but it also fit with where we saw all the boats too. Where we went didn't seem to attract many people and maybe for good reasons. This also got me thinking about a map I saw posted that gives some details of the bay: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9eHfNfGz5ksN2FBektfTjkza1U/edit?usp=sharing">Willard Bay Map</a><br />
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Well that's it for now. Was a very nice day to be out for sure. BTW Water temps got up to the low 60's before we got off the water.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-91208247368751553862014-05-18T23:22:00.000-06:002014-05-18T23:24:18.989-06:00Ice Fishing Strawberry April 12th 2014 (Mud Creek)(Again a month late...)<br />
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So having been watching the forums on BFT it was clear that the ice on strawberry was still solid enough for a last ice trip of the year. From the details other reports had shared it seemed that the easy to access spots had had enough pressure that people suggested looking elsewhere. So I got it in my mind that the mouth of the mud creek arm might be enough out of the way to not be where the masses had been. What I didn't know is if walking from the gate for mud creek (gate is as close a vehicle could get) or the marina would be the better pick to start from. I choose poorly....<br />
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It was a beautiful day weather was wonderful, maybe a bit too wonderful. As we walked down from the mud creek gate we noted that the snow on the dirt road was solid enough and then the ice seemed also more then solid. Reports said ice was about 30" deep and that matched what we say. The ice had a set of interesting layers to it through such that the top 6" or so was a mix of hard and less hard layers before you hit the solid base that was solid till you broke through. Well (being that it's been a month since we went) I'll spare a play by play as I couldn't retell it well enough now to do things right and simply say that Jason out fished my skunk of a day but we both came home with a limit and then some of UV rays and more then our fair share of physical activity. Before I explain that I'll throw in the token pictures:<br />
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So here is the short of the story... Fishing was slow and we moved around some trying to find the fish. We marked some and had a few missed bites but Jason landed all that we caught. I should point out that we drilled at least a couple dozen holes with the hand auger and I was very impressed at how well it did with the depth of the ice and how easy it was to cut. As the day went on the wonderful weather started to soften the top of the ice. This resulted in the edges near where we were softening up to the point you would, much to Jason's pleasure and joy, break through as you tried to get on dry land... So we packed up and started back. Now is where the poor choice for the day started to reveal itself... Those top 6" of ice layers I spoke of were now soft. They were now only firm enough to tease you with every step that they MIGHT just hold you this step before you would punch through to the hard base below them. This was like walking on a stepping machine the whole way across the ice. Well we made it to the mud creek boat launch where we would walk the snow covered road back up from there. At least here we didn't break through the ice near the shore.<br />
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Now if the stepper machine walk across the ice wasn't bade enough we now learned very clearly that the dirt road did not just have 6-10" of snow on it as I had wondered on the walk down... No, it was knee to hip deep the whole way and now the snow followed the example of the ice and taunted us the whole way to the vehicle... And it was a long way that took way to long to get back. Lets just say that lots of create ideas were thought up, tested and marked as failure as we attempted to make our way to the vehicle. There were no easy tricks or ways around it... It stunk worse then the smell I had coming off the ice without a fish to show for the day.<br />
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Well we made it... Eventually. We did drive over afterwards to the main marina and looked at where we could have parked there and walked to the same spot and thought very clearly that that would have been a better pick. Next time, which will be next year at the earliest... :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-75085343513328560772014-05-18T22:53:00.001-06:002014-05-18T22:53:44.851-06:00Maribou 4-8-2014(yes this is over a month overdue...)<br />
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So since starting to cast my own jigs (even before then) I've been a bit interested in Maribou jigs for their movement characteristics while in water, specifically for a vertical jig presentation. TubeDude (Pat) has shown me (and sold some to me for my Dad) some of his offerings that use Maribou along with Flashibou accents. They have just stuck in my mind as something really nice (though that qualifies for most of what TubeDude has shown me... ;)) <br />
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Anyway I kind of got moving on this at Christmas time where I put a Fly Tying kit that was on sale from Cablelas on a wish list and then later found it under the tree. This got me the base tools but I did not yet step down the path of materials as I had some questions. To start with I got a good case of pre-buyers remorse worrying that Maribou was maybe not the material to pick but a synthetic might be better. I got hung up on wondering about costs, durability of color, durability of material, ease of use, etc... Anyway I sent a few notes off to TubeDude and Barlows asking opinions and got some solid responses back, including an open invite to head over to Pat's for a sit down session. I never did get a chance to take him up on that during the winter break though... It was clear though that Maribou was still the right pick for the application I was after.<br />
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Then heading toward April I again got into the mode to pursue this more and got materials on my birthday wishlist: thread and maribou in a variety of colors, pearl, silver and gold flashibou for accent, and some hard as nails clear polish to coat the thread wrap. I also again tried to get my schedule such that I could take Pat up on the offer of his time he had made... I struck out on that again due to family and work schedules.... YouTube ended up being my backup plan as I could fit in some time watching videos on the train rides to and from work. So with all that said, and realizing I had no in person training I got started and have tied up a few dozen jigs now. Seems to be easy enough to tie. I'm not sure how durable my work is yet, but I've liked how things have gone. Here are a few pictures form the initial batch.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-68755708678469194852013-12-28T21:40:00.005-07:002013-12-29T13:41:42.870-07:00December 27th, 2013 - Ice Fishing Mantua with Alex and JasonSo last winter I had the chance to go ice fishing at Rockport with Guy. It turned out to be very fun in many of the same ways that float tube fishing has appealed to me, casual, social, easy to do your own thing, etc... So since then I've been keeping my "wish lists" stocked up with wishful thinking ideas for some future time. Well this Christmas, thanks to my wife and others, I now have more of the basic items to be able to go ice fishing. A few of the key scores are a 6" Nils hand auger, a sled to drag everything in, a chair to sit on and support my lower back, ice scoop, and a few other accessories.<br />
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Well now I have the means and also some time off from work I just need a plan to get out and use it. So I checked with Jason and Alex and we figured the 27th would work and after some considering we decided to go somewhere new that we had seem some good reports from, Mantua. We have wanted to visit this lake before, but never got things together to make it happen. <br />
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So we got a "relaxed" start to the day and made it up to Mantua by about 11am. Air temps were near 28F with a very slight breeze that sat still most of the time. We had looked at some of the info others have shared on BFT and other sites to learn about access and places of interest, but really we were heading up on a blank sheet without any specific plan other then to observe what others were doing and see how things went. Jason made a few comments later in the day that he had set his expectations low from the start and I think that's a fair assessment for myself too.<br />
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We pulled up to the lake in a pull off just south of the 600 North exit. We pulled off here first just to get out and look around before choosing where to launch. As we got up on the top of the shoreline to scout things out it was clear that there were two main areas that people were targeting. The main boat launch area was full of lots of people (most were not using ice tents) and then the south east portion of the lake was even more busy (many of these were using ice tents). So trying to read a bit into that I kind of concluded that many of the people near the boat launch were more casual people maybe taking advantage of the ease of access the boat launch offered. The others in the south east portion of the lake appeared a bit more serious but we were unsure of what driving access would be like to that portion of the lake. There were a couple stray folk in the north end of the lake including one larger group with lots of kids that looked like they had been there for a while. So after some considering we chose to just stay parked where we were and we could walk across the lake toward the hill on the eastern side and that we wanted to maybe try near there just north of the string of the fishing groups that were setup in the south east portion of the lake.<br />
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As we started across the ice a few things stood out, as we are very new to ice fishing (read up but little hands on experience), the ice was a bit odd to us as the top 3" was a milky white that looks like it was a slush layer that has frozen up (as evident by lots of food print impressions frozen into this layer). This layer also made it really hard to understand what the core ice under it was like. So we started to look at ice holes others had cut to get some better understanding as we worked our way out. The core ice under the top few inches was very clear looking and also looks to be about 5-6" thick (ice was measured to be 9" thick where we ended up fishing with the top 3 being the slush crust). Well as we got about half way from the west shore toward the east side hill we came up on a large crack/pressure ridge that looks like it ran from the north east corner of the lake and headed diagonal down toward the south west end of the lake somewhere. Being new to the ice I did not feel I could judge the condition of this area to know if we could cross so we made a change of plans. Instead we headed north and east a bit and ended up about 100 yards south of the north shore of the lake and about 1/3 the way between the east and west shore <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=41.508296944444446%2C-111.93678283333334&data=!1m4!1m3!1d7190!2d-111.9373985!3d41.5060467!4m14!2m13!1m12!3m8!1m3!1d2988!2d-111.9367828!3d41.5082969!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!4m2!3d41.5082969!4d-111.9367828">( Link to approx spot we fished )</a>. We found a spot that someone had fished recently (maybe in the past couple days?) and began to setup.<br />
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So my first use of my new auger went really well. Very easy to turn and I ended up punching 8 holes through and not feeling worn out worked over in arms or in my lower back. With only 9" of ice I know this isn't any "real" test of things, but regardless of was very pleased with how quick and easily these holes went through with the 6" Nils hand auger. Alex had his line in first with a couple small ice jigs with gulp alive fry on the hook. Before his line hit the bottom he had the first bites and the first misses. While Jason and I were racing to get ourselves setup and lines in the water he continued to have bites and misses. Finally Jason and I got lines in the water and I got my fish finder in it's hole as well (finding out that we were in about 8' of water). Jason was using some of his smaller jigs in various colors including silver (silver proved to be the color of the day for trout), Alex had a tandem setup with red and white jigs, and I had one pole with chartreuse and black jigs and the other with green and gold jigs. <br />
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Jason I think pulled in the first fish, a perch, that was 9-10" in size and a fine fish taco in the making. Alex was still getting bites but had not gotten the rhythym for setting the hook down yet and was getting a bit frustrated. I had had a few bites that I had missed on my own poles before I started to get a bit of a feel for when to set. After about 30 minutes we had each landed at least a fish if not multiple fish with the pace pretty much being that as soon as you got your line down and jigged it a time or two you would have a bite. I had opted to put wax worms on my jigs instead of the gulp alive fry and that quickly proved to be a right move as I started to get a lot more attention the the other guys. So everyone changed over to wax worms (or just added them onto the hooks and kept the gulp alive on the hook too) and it was game on for quite a while.<br />
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A few observations we had made during this time. All fish seemed to be on the bottom (we were only in 8' of water so take it for what it is) and all fish marked on the finder were just off the bottom few inches. The perch ranged from about 8" - 11"+ but were all very plump for their size ( this later during the fillet process proved to be the egg's they were all (but one) carrying. The catch to pick up on there is that of all the perch caught only 1 was male, the rest were female. That surprised us a bit. <br />
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Jason and Alex scored all the Trout that we got onto the ice and silver seemed to be the preferred color for trout, at least in what we had offered.<br />
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The bluegill caught ranged in about the 4" - 9" range with most in the middle though Jason did the best for average bluegill size. We did manage 2 large mouth bass. I caught one, my first LMB ever, and Jason caught the other. <br />
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As the day went along we started to run low on wax worms so we pulled out the night crawlers and put small pieces of them on the hooks and it appeared that wax worm or night crawlers were just as effective but both were still significantly more effective then the gulp alive fry we had tried. Activly jigging at times seemed to be good, but just as often almost the second poles that Jason and I ran were being hit with no active motion on them. So maybe the active jigging was more for our benefit of doing something as we waited for the next bite? Things started to taper off somewhere between 1pm and 2pm. We stayed out on the ice till about 3:30pm when it was time to head out.<br />
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So picking up on some previous questions folk asked as people have made reports about fishing and what was in the stomach of the fish kept I figured I'd give a look in the fish we took home as I fillet them. The perch and the lmb both were full of what I think are baby bluegill. Though a couple my bigger perch had baby lmb in their bellies.<br />
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The bluegill didn't have anything I could identify in their bellies, but in hind sight I think they had similar to what I found in the trout (as they had more of them too look through) and they appear to be some kind of snail.<br />
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In the end both Jason and I commented about how it never felt like it was going to turn out as well as it did when we considered how the day had gone. One of those that kind of sneaked up on you. Regardless it was a wonderful day to be out and again demonstrated how pleasant fishing the hard deck can be. Alex made it clear he was more then happy to have been there and would very muck like to go again and often. Now I just need to get my other two kids out and try to reproduce the same results in terms of getting them in some fish too.<br />
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Well time to go plan for some fish taco's, fish fingers or some other tasty option to pick for these fish. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-60618881266272788302013-08-08T22:29:00.002-06:002013-08-08T22:29:52.995-06:00Deer Creek, Wallsburg, with Alex and Jason. August 8thSo it's been a bit since the last trip. Alex has been asking to go fishing again and Jason and I had a few false tries at getting a date picked and setup. We managed to pull things together to get this trip up and running finally. Weather gave us a few choices to pick from for destinations but after some recent reports about Deer Creek, where neither Jason nor I have done very well at before, we wanted to give things a try again influenced by the recent information we pulled from these posts. Specifically the area we were to target is the Wallsburg Bay area marina (not the small launch at the end of the Bay, the one on the main body of the lake. not sure what the full proper name is.) and then work up the rocky shore line into the Wallsburg Bay. <br />
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We got to the lake and were setup and on the water as the sun was coming up. Water temps were just below 70 degrees F. I'm not sure what air temps were but they were not too cold for swim trunks and a long sleeve shirt for keeping warm.<br />
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Fish were breaking the surface with a good amount of regularity so we started off working the top levels of the water as we moved away from the launch ramp. We worked across the bay to the far side where the rocky shore looked very appealing for the prospect of some small mouth. We hoped to pick up something along the way over but nothing appeared interested in the various offerings we presented.<br />
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Once we got to the far side I had a fish pick up a firetiger tail spinner I've made and I fought him to near the tube where I got a look at him, about 12" long, and he thrashed and was off the hook. I passed word along to Jason and Alex and we all started to work the shoreline at various locations. Jason reported a fish on and loss similar to mine. I had another on that only got close enough for me to see the flash in the water but I'd guess another small mouth at 12" or less, probably less.<br />
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Where things had started to look up and like the bite was going to be on for us it kind of puttered out and we fell into just working the shore, being taunted by the jumping fish and we worked our way deeper into the bay.<br />
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Along the way I ended up with a woolly bugger behind a full bubble to drag along (troll?) as I kicked down the shore line. I had a fish hit and quickly had myself a nice rainbow in the net.<br />
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A ways deeper into the bay both Jason's and my fish finders started going crazy showing fish suspended at nearly all levels from about 12' down to about 42' down. These fish seemed to mostly move up and down in the water column as we watched the finders. Much of the movement seemed "together". I'm honestly not sure what to make of that. Well we had no idea what the finders were reporting until Jason had a pole he was running a set of jigs at about 20' down in 32' of water. To our surprise he landed a really healthy looking Crappie. Hmm now we got wondering if these suspended fish were not Crappie.<br />
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Hoping to get into some good crappie action we started working a good number of presentations seeing what they might be interested in. They wanted a whole lot of nothing that we offered. Jason had a few light inquiries and I had a couple as well. Nothing that ended up with a solid hook set. <br />
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I put one line down to run a few feet above the bottom and the other about mid depth and started to turn around to head back down the bay toward the launch. The finder was being pretty quiet now but occasionally showed a fish mark on the bottom or somewhere mid depth. My deeper line went bend and I set the hook and managed a really nice perch.<br />
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Anyway we worked our way back toward the launch ramp and fished our way there. We marked a good number of more fish and Alex had one take his line and give a good set of yanks but he was not paying attention and missed his chance to set the hook. Somewhere along the way he announced he had lost his clippers and eye buster. It ends up that he was thinking that taking off his clipper and eye buster from the tether and then holding it over the water to "risk" dropping it seemed fun up until the point that he did drop it.... Well it could have been worse so we talked about it and how not to do this again and moved on.<br />
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We failed to get a few picks of the fish until we got home. Then trying to entertain ourselves after all the recent BFT drama over holding the fish so far out away from you as you take a picture to make it look bigger we felt we had to take a few of our own. So we volunteered Alex to model the fish for us.<br />
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So while it was not a gang buster day out on the water and Alex came home with a foul smell... It was a great day for us on Deer Creek compared to a few previous attempts to fish there. We will surely visit it again. Though one point in hindsight... We ended up covering a lot more water then we "usually" do kicking the tubes. Playing with google maps I estimate we covered somewhere near 4-4.5 miles of water round trip. So the conclusion is, if you are going to do that, you need to plan into your day for an afternoon nap... ;)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-38884473212922851492013-07-14T16:55:00.000-06:002013-07-14T16:55:01.348-06:00July 5th @ Pelican Point, Utah LakeSo Jason has been wanting to get out to try out his new prowler, Alex also has been wanting to get out for his first tube trip of the year and we wanted to also try to get Scott and Guy to join us as well. Scott had conflicts with work but we did manage to tackle all 3 other tasks.<br />
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We met up at my place at 5:30am to try to get to Pelican Point Marina near sun up and quickly on the water. We expected a fair chance of having to deal with the holiday crowd and PWC. The forecast said we would start with little to no wind and that it would climb up some as we approached noon. With the new electric assist on the tube inflation we were on the water pretty fast even having to help both Guy and Alex being that both were on tubes they were totally unfamiliar with.<br />
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Turned out to be about a 20" catfish that worked him over pretty well. I netted it form him and we got it in his basket to take home for dinner.<br />
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Shortly after that I had my first on the line and pulled in a mud cat that went into my basket. Then I had something bigger on and while working to bring it in Alex noticed his cat line pulling so he took up his rod to set the hook. Just about then I had my fish surface for a tail flick and then Alex set his hook and snap went my line. Not sure how we managed it but somehow get the lines caught up and his hook set either snapped my line or maybe the catfish just broke it at the same time. The lines were tangled, but aside from that it's all a guess.<br />
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Guy had manged a fish somewhere about this time as well and Jason headed over to help him land the fish. Turned out to be very close to the same size as Alex's cat.<br />
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However, as it often does, it didn't last long before the wind from the SE started up and since we were in the NW area of the lake we had some nice sized waves to ride. We were lucky that with the direction we had headed out the wind was at our backs and if we simply stopped kicking against the wind it would take us back to the harbor, free of charge...<br />
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Well we got into the kick and simply head our place out on the water and while doing that Guy got into his second fish, the biggest of the day, and landed a cat near 24" I think.<br />
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Well sometime near 11 we had had enough and let the wind send us home. Jason didn't basket anything but had had a fight or two with fish that got off, I had another fish or two on line but either didn't set the hook or it simply was a pop'n'drop. So final count was Alex 1, Guy 2, Brian 1, Jason 0. Fun day regardless of counts. :)<br />
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Today was a bit cooler air temps then Monday was but the water at launch was a bit warmer nearing 59. We never did see it get much over 60 before we got off the water just after noon.</div>
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We had seen reports that the perch were not yet in the shallows and that trout, small mouth, and walleye might be better targets to hope for. So once we got on the water both of us were do a bit more of a mix between jigs near the bottom as well as actively casting around the rocky areas. Both Jason and I got into the small mouth bass pretty fast near the rock wall where the buoys mark the shallow ridge.</div>
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We each had picked up a couple keeper sized small mouth in the range of 13-14" in length along with a good number of eager youngsters that got sent back to grow up a bit... er a lot.... They were still fun to play with. I managed the one Perch that we got that day about this time too and it measured in at just over 10" long. After looking around for possible perch or other marks on the finders we both moved off in different directions. I went across the bay to the far side near the rocks following some comments I had seen in other reports. Jason started working across but also to the west some toward the back of the bay (kind of)... I don't think either of us had anything happen at all on the kick across though both of us tried a good number of things. The finder didn't show much of anything either.</div>
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Once I got near the rocks I had a tandem rig of jigs near the bottom and my ultra light took a hard bend and after a very exciting fight I landed my first starvation rainbow for this trip.</div>
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Not long after that, and again from a jig near the bottom, I pulled in another nice rainbow.</div>
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I worked the area a while longer but the afternoon breeze started to tease us that it might start to blow and I didn't want to be on the wrong side of the lake and have to work against the wind. So both Jason and I headed back for the rock wall under the buoys. We got back into the small mouth bass and had some fun with them when I had a different but equally dramatic bend go on my rod. A nice 17" small mouth finally surfaced after a wonderful tug-o-war (I won if you didn't figure that out...)...</div>
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We did manage to negotiate a Monday fishing trip and we made plans for Strawberry after looking over the weather reports for various options we were considering. Strawberry has not been a place we have focused on before due to the slot requirements (and dare I say some of the stereo types that seem to come with that place...). However it was the right pick in the end so we made it. No reason to pass up a good day of fishing just because the location has some extra rules... Plus this is my first trip on my new Outcast Prowler and I've been dying to give it a try (sitting on it at home does not satisfy....).<br />
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Well we headed up to the east portal area of the lake (no fee area) and got there as the sun was breaking the skyline. I'm not sure what the air temps were for sure but the water was in the mid 50's. Very little wind if any at all though the water surface had constant slight ripples moving across. I think both Jason and I were a bit unsure what to focus on but some reports talked about white colors and minnow imitating lures.<br />
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So I started the day with one pole out with a white tube jig and a bit of worm floating about 6' under a bobber. The other line I worked through various spinners, jigs and lures actively casting and retrieving. It didn't take long before the bobber started to dance a bit and I had my first fish on for the day.<br />
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Turned out to be a really nice Cutt about 18-19" long. Fought well enough and already the air smelled fresher so I was happy. This started a stretch from about 7:30am - 9:30am where I was doing most of my catching on the jigs under the bobber. All but one thus far had been Cutts in the slot so they posed and got sent home. The one was a 19" rainbow that didn't get a pic... I think the idea of not being able to keep so many nice fish added pressure to not loose the one you can keep so risking the time to take a pic didn't win out... ;)<br />
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About 9:30am or so the bite on the jigs under the bobber had stopped. Jason and I had moved out into deeper water seeing if things might change with location. Fish were still breaking the surface but none of our offerings (jig, spinner, fly behind bubble, etc) were picking things up near the top. Jason then radioed that he was having some luck with jigs just off the bottom. So I rigged up accordingly and the bite was back on. I managed one more rainbow that was going to get a photo, but proved my point by doing a flip and escape as I removed the hook. <br />
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Being good husbands and worried about impacting additional trips we hoped to get during this week we got off the water close to noon so we could be back to help with the kids before the kids were themselves for too much of the day... ;) In the end we took the one rainbow in my basket home for dinner and sent a couple dozen back between the two of us.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-81833078717051350732013-06-17T23:26:00.001-06:002013-06-18T01:30:05.411-06:00Prowling the waters... - May 18thThis year (early April) marks a few things for me. My 15th wedding anniversary, I've made 40 laps around the sun, as well as 15 years at my current job. So in some odd way I found myself in the perfect storm for float tube buying. Between b-day $, learning you can "cash out" on work gifts for service and some side line consulting work that came up just at the right time I found myself with too many pants with holes burnt through the pockets and I saw that action was required to remedy the situation... ;) <br />
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I have been, as I do all to often, pondering and planning future purchases long before I should even consider the option let alone the possibility... To be clear I have not been in any dire situation from a failure on my current float tube (North Forks/Scadden Freestyle H3) that I bought used a few years back. In fact it has done beautifully since I got it and will continue to serve well for a long time yet. So what was my reason for this change? Well I do very much consider that the social aspects of going fishing to be essentially equal to the fun of fishing itself. So I wanted to have a second rig to take a friend along on trips. I had been pondering the possibility of a new tube for some time and was well aware of a few options that appealed to me. I knew I wanted a float tube or frameless pontoon. I'm very much done with frames at this time due to past experiences.... </div>
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I had narrowed my choices down to the Outcast Prowler, Outcast Super Fat Cat, North Forks Outlaw Escape, or the rumored North Forks Outlaw Predator. All of these, in my opinion, represent fine upper end choices even considering that the MSRP pricing on these ranges quite a bit from $439 through about $999.00 (or more?)... Honestly before the small amount of info about the North Forks Predator got out I was just focused on the Outcast products as the direction my next purchase would go. I specifically went to the Sportmans Expo this spring to see the NFO booth and see this new Predator in person. </div>
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I was so hopeful that with it NOT having oars, weighing even less then the Escape and rumors suggesting it might be a hair cheaper the the escape that I might have a new "luxury model" craft to pine for... Well that trip and follow up emails to NFO pretty much dashed all of those hopes. The Predator model as I had seen early info on the web about was canceled and instead a modified version was being worked on. The new model is longer (closer to 8' vs 6'), has oars and is NOT going to be anywhere near the speculated price I had seen posted about the Predator. Since I'm looking for a float tube the extra length, added cost of oars, more then 2x the cost that was rumored.... well it all left me pretty disappointed as I felt this portion of the market, the float tube portion, NFO as missing out on. All of the changes made to the Predator make sense when you listen/read the posts people made about the Escape and it's use with oars. I just wish there ended up with 2 options. Now before I let this whole section get the better of me (more then it already has) this brings me to the final point that helped me finally pick my craft of choice. This point is warranty.. One brand offers 5 years on the crafts I'm interested in and the other lifetime. This point alone nearly cost me a bottle of antacids over the past month or two. ;) Well let me sum it up on how I, my opinion again, concluded things. When you buy things that are cutting edge and innovative you sometimes buy into things that don't work out or last (last not in terms of durability but in terms of a model being manufactured). So when one company offers boats with 5 year warranty (and great track record from the many owners out there that these craft can last that long and longer when taken care of) and the other offers lifetime warranty (again with good track records from customers) but having demonstrated a higher turn over rate for models being created/changed and then some being retired I am not convinced that I can count on a lifetime warranty when down the road the model I might buy might go away. So I simply declared that the warranty between the two brands was effectively equal as far as I'm concerned. Everyone gets to have an opinion and I clearly have mine... ;) Summary points: NFO is more $ for the models I'm looking at and offers some extra features for usage cases I'm not trying to buy for. So in the end budget and my intended usage finds's Outcast as the better value/choice.</div>
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So now that I had the brand portion of the selection handled I started assaulting the "info" email address at Outcast and a few retail outlets about little details such as pocket and seat dimensions, accessories, and some questions based on some on-line reviews I had read I finally made my choice and ordered. I wanted the Prowler over the SFC because hey it's the top of the line, well I liked the features it has as well... ;) I think the only grump I can make about the order process is in regards to MAP (minimum advertised price)... I don't want to grump about it but I feel I need to be fair since I gave NFO some grief above. I am not a business major nor do I claim to understand all aspects of the process of making and selling a product especially in this on-line age we are in now. However I do like the idea of competition and MAP seems to take away some of the ability for a retailer to compete. I was able to find one vendor that sweetened the deal with free shipping (a few did this part, or there were a few local shops) and a budget of free accessories based on how much your craft cost. This worked out well for me but to be honest I was hoping to either find a local shop to buy from or to be able to buy from Cabela's (no longer carries the prowler) so I could use my points! So in the end I bought online from out of state and got a better deal.</div>
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As a kind of P.S. I wanted to add a few observations after having been out now on this tube 2 times. First is that my PVC setup worked out pretty darn well. I need to adjust it so that it leans out a bit more then it does but that is a simple enough fix. There are 2 big benefits though that I did not know to look forward to. <br />
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First is that I get leg cramps often near the end of a fishing trip as kick back to the vehicles. I have learned how to feel them coming on and how to work around them without it impacting my ability to get back safely. Mostly that is how far I bend my knees to bring my heal under me as I kick vs going into a flutter kick of sorts to minimize the bending of the knee. On the new tube I have had a significant lower amount of cramps or near cramps. It leaves me wondering if it is the seat or how the seat is shaped up front. Instead of a flat seat platform like my H3 has or Jason's SFC has, the front edge of the Prowler balloon's up a bit near the front so that you sit in a pocket of sorts and as you kick it feels more gentle on the back of your thigh as you press into you kick vs the more firm edge I had on the H3.<br />
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Second is related, due to the seat, but different. On my H3 I've had no issues being in the seat all day long, aside from being aware of possible leg cramps I mentioned above. However the moment I stand up at the end of the day or as I have to slide my butt back in my seat using the pockets as arm rests to re position I end up with the area of my tail bone aching something fierce for a time. It does not feel like the issue is with the tailbone, but more the muscles in that area ache and I'm not sure I've ever felt this doing anything else. It's not the end of the world but it is annoying. Well with how regular this issue has been I've been shocked at these first 2 trips on the Prowler as I've had NONE of this at all. So right now I'm feeling like the comfort level of the Prowler is getting really high marks!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-40283727518634288212013-05-16T19:03:00.000-06:002013-05-16T19:03:38.276-06:00May16th Jordan River Trip with MaxJason, Guy and I had tried to plan a float tube trip today to go to Utah Lake, Willard, Deer Creek or Rockport... Well due to the weather, specifically the winds, we bailed on that plan. Seems things were just not meant to be as Jason got a late call that he could not be out of work today anyway and Guy and I ended up having some level of disruption today due to a power outage on campus affecting one of our data centers.<br />
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Well not letting a good day off go to waste, my impact from the power outage didn't come until late in the afternoon, I took Max, my youngest, fishing down to the Jordan River today.<br />
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We headed down to a spot near 106th south that we have fished before and setup on a nice spot with the water levels where they are. We were able to get into the inside of a bend that let us have a few places to cast to without worry/issue of line tangles.<br />
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It only took a few minutes before Max's line started dancing. I had intended to head over to help him watch the line and wait for a pull to set the hook. Well I was busy tying on my line when the good pulls came so I told him to pick it up, set the hook and reel it in. He did it all himself and did very well with it as you can see.<br />
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His first question after we put it on the chain was if he could eat this one for dinner tonight. So as I'm typing this up I'm also grilling the catfish for his dinner.<br />
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We didn't get much else at this spot so we moved down the walkway along the river a 1/2 mile or so and setup there for a bit. After nothing there we heading to the jeep to head down to a spot I've fished before at 126th south. We ended up fishing a few spots there and found a spot I had not fished before that again put us on the inside elbow of a bend where we had a lot of spots to cast to. Again only after a few minutes Max's line went dancing and he again brought another channel catfish in but the fish let go of the line right as we were trying to bring it up on the shore. <br />
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We stayed there until about 4pm and then called it good. This was about the time work was starting to call on me to help out with the days power drama so it was a clean break time to head home. Max is pretty proud of out fishing dad and that put a big smile on my face. :)<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-37745202070800485842013-05-10T01:27:00.001-06:002013-05-10T01:29:04.821-06:00First float tube trip of 2013 (4/26 Provo Harbor, Utah Lake)So aside from the ice fishing trip in January I've not been out fishing for way to long... Jason felt much the same way, enough that we went fishing on the day he was supposed to attend his graduation commencement and "walk". Glad he had his priorities straight ;)... Anyway he is now graduated and now much more "free" to pursue better things, though he (and I) ended up with the taint of the skunk smell for the days efforts...<br />
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We didn't really know much about the conditions to expect at Utah Lake this spring as the few reports that we had seen talked about lower water levels and with the weather the temps were cooler and varied a fair bit. So I think we both just fell back to where we feel a level of comfort and that is Provo Harbor (poor choice that a few other reports that came from others on BFT as far as catching went) off the south side.<br />
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We didn't try to beat the sun to the water but we were not far behind. We got setup and launched pretty fast and we both started the day throwing plastics and or spinners seeing what might be in the river channel as we crossed over to work the weed lines south.<br />
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It did not take long to find the first thing we underestimated... The effect of both a lower water level and what the ice sheets do to the weeds during ice off. Specifically how the idea either folds over, breaks, or tears off the tops of the weeds so that when you think your casting into open water you end up catching WAY more then your limit of salad, snags and other forms of vegetation....<br />
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So after my fill of this I turned my craft west and headed out more to try my luck out at the area near the SW point of the outer harbor. I setup one pole to drag some carp meat to try for some cats and kept the other pole running through various of my new spinner creations from this past winters lure craft efforts. We kept in touch over the radios but aside from a few missed bites and or pop'n'drops neither of us managed to produce anything. Well I did manage to pull in a 5' - 6' branch of some unfortunate tree, sure put a bend on my rod... Funny how at times like that you take what joy you can and find a certain thrill from a stick... ;) Well I think Jason had more fun laughing at me, but still...<br />
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Wind and weather worked out really well for us and regardless of the catching, or lack there of, it was a fun and very relaxing day to be out on the water. A few more pics (from the new camera) and that's about it for this report...<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-28797151696504077802013-05-10T01:08:00.001-06:002013-05-10T01:08:20.815-06:00Ice fishing Rockport Jan 25th 2013So for a long time I've thought about Ice Fishing as a possibility but usual turn off my interest due to perceived costs of gearing up properly to be able to go. Mostly I could look at the costs of augers, poles, sleds, and all of the other accessories that one might use and see it quickly add up for something that I might not find all that much fun.... Well I guess I had shared my thoughts a few times with my boss at work to the point that he one day said something along the lines of, "you know it doesn't take much more then an auger to go and those are not that much if you don't focus on the top brands"... Well a few weeks later that turned into a comment from my boss along the lines of, "I'd be happy to share the cost of an auger with you"... Then later to, "Hey I bought an auger over the weekend and no you have no more excuses"... Well I guess I didn't. So we made plans to hit up Rockport and give things a try. <br />
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I made a couple strike indicator tips to use on our 5'-6' long ultra light poles that were the best options we both had. I simple took my wire I use to make spinners and made a loop about the size of the eye at the end of my poles. Bent it at 90 degrees to act as an eye and then powder painted the eye and the last 2" of the indicator blaze orange. I then used a stick of hot melt glue to make a "clamp" to attach the indicator to the pole. Simply I cut a 3/4" piece and drilled a hole down lengthwise. Then I cut through to this hold down one side again lengthwise so that it could open up like a "C" down the whole length. I then took the end of the wire and pressed it into this modified piece of hot melt glue stick so that it went down the length at the back of the "C". Now I just had to open up the "C" channel in the stick and let it grab and hold around the end of my pole. This was really just a poor mans mockup of a product you can find in the stores... But I made it and it worked well enough for us.<br />
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We both found a snow sled we had for our kids to use as our gears transportation. They clearly were not the dream option but they worked well enough for our trial run at ice fishing. I also modified up my fish finder so that I could use it from a small cooler I have that I also use from my small aluminum boat. The big change was how the transducer clamped on so that I could clamp it to the cooler and then let the cooler sit next to an ice hole with the transducer down in the water. This also worked pretty well.<br />
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So the way things worked out we didn't try to be there too early so that we would not have to deal with things being overly cool as well as we had seen reports that the morning bite might be later in the morning. I think we got to the lake just before 11am and had picked and made our way down to the water by about 11:30am. Reports had said that fish were in about 20' of water and we questioned if that meant the water was only 20' deep or if regardless of depth of the water the fish were only 20' down... So we simply took inventory of the existing holes in the ice where other anglers had been in the days before. We picked on far enough from a few other anglers on the ice but close enough that we could watch what others were doing and see if we could not learn a bit.<br />
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The fish finder marked fish every so often as they moved through under us and we started to have a few light hits. The home made indicators proved very useful for seeing those light bites. However we were both newbs when it came to being prepared to be on the mark to set the hook and we missed a good number of opportunities. We ended up moving around a few more times getting closer to the shore and continued to see fish move through and a few light strikes here and there. I managed one fair rainbow onto the hard deck to take home cleaning the smell of skunk from at least myself... ;)<br />
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I think we headed off the water sometime before 3pm. The edges where clearly softer then when we had come out in the morning and the value of waterproof boots and a bit of a jump helped get out without too much trouble. The sleds proved to be less optimal for the trip back up the hill to the vehicle as we both had a spill or two on the way up but we made it regardless. Either better sleds or a better tie down setup is needed to keep things on the sled. Here are a few pics of the trip:<br />
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In the end I'm very interested in doing this again and owe that to Guy for being bold enough to just buy the auger and leave me with little/no reason not to give it a try. I've already picked up some closeout poles from Cabela's to use next year. That was mostly because in the end the most annoying thing was using to long of a pole over the ice holes. Well second to that would be needing better pole holders then just trying to prop your poles over your sled and above the ice hole. So I figure I'm ready to see how this might pan out over time.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7499607057171227899.post-27092231166611620452012-07-08T23:06:00.000-06:002012-07-08T23:06:02.460-06:00Provo Harbor South 7/7So I got an email Friday from my cousin Jeff that he was heading to Provo Harbor (South Side) with his son, father and a couple neighbors and wanted Jason and I to know we were welcome to come. Well Alex and I took Jeff up on the offer and we headed down to meet them Saturday Morning.<br />
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We got there as Jeff and his crew was already part way setup and they finished and were on the water before we were. Alex was using a different set of fins today, my force fins, to see how they would compare to the fins he got with his tube for performance, kicking power, comfort as well as how they did or did not stay on his feet better. The biggest benefit is not having to lace up the fins and he should be able to put these on himself after a seeing how they work.<br />
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Once Alex and I launched we headed out across the river flow and around the edge of the weed line where the others were at. I'm not sure what they all already had at this point as we had some mix up on what channel to be on with the radios. It didn't take us long to get into a few crappie to get things started.<br />
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Most everyone was getting a crappie or two here and there with a stray white mixed in most of the morning. The action was not overly fast but still pretty constant overall. You just had to work the weed line faces and the water near there to find the crappie. If you didn't get any action after a few casts move a bit and try again.<br />
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I had my second line under a bobber and it vanished and ended up with a mud cat on the hook. That's the only cat I know of for the day. I did run a piece of carp meat for a while with no apparent interest. The rest of the time I had a bobber with tandem jigs about 3' down and then the main line was casting either tandem jigs or spinners.<br />
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As things slowed down Alex and I moved out to the open water near the SW point of the harbor where the river water and lake water mix. We had seen a few boats holding place out there suggesting maybe they were in the whites. As we made our way out Alex had a few friends decide to caravan with us for a couple minutes.<br />
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However as we got near the other boats whatever affinity they had had for following us vanished as they took off toward one of the aluminum boats. I'm not sure what they were hoping for or how long they stayed with the boats but I found it interesting. :)<br />
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Well our effort of kicking out there didn't pan out well. All but one but had moved off shortly after we got out there. The one last boat was doing great for whites. We didn't get close enough to see exactly what he was fishing but he would cast out a large looking rig on his line a short distance from his boat on one pole. Then pick up the other pole which had already been cast out. He would give it a couple small tugs and reel a bit, tug tug, reel, then by that time he was near his boat and he would start to jig and usually pull a white up. Then cast out again and swap to the other pole. I'm not sure how many he boated but for the time I watched I'd say he pulled in a dozen or more. I did mange a couple whites out there on a spinner.<br />
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At somewhere near 11am or just after Jeff's group decided to call it a day and head in. Alex and I figured we should head in at least to the weed line and give that area a bit more time before we called it a day. Turned out a pretty good choice as we manged to put a few more fish in the baskets to round out the day. That included a nice blue gill and getting me to the 4 species day.<br />
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Well a few more fish and an hour or so more and we called it a day and started to head in. Alex was pretty happy with how the force fins compared to the previous ones we had been having him use. Well here are a few more pics to finish out the report with.<br />
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As far as a fish count went I'm not sure exactly how many Alex and I ended up with. Maybe something like 1 bluegill, 5 or so white bass, and 18 crappie (I didn't keep the mud cat today). Jeff reported that his group came out with 40 crappie, 7 white bass, and 1 perch.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0