10-19-2018, 09:24 PM
[#0000ff]Yeah, I do know where it is. I have fished it several times through the ice and can verify it is a deep anomaly in Utah Lake. During normal water years, when "normal" water levels are at least 5-6 feet deep around that hole, it is a magnet for masses of white bass under the ice. The few degrees extra warmth and extra depth create a big aquarium.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=560117;page=1"]Here is a link[/url] to a report which includes catching some channel cats under the ice. Most trips just produced large numbers of white bass.
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[#0000ff]I had refrained from posting info on a public forum, but the "happy harvesters" followed our wheeler tracks out in some new snow one year and now it is a trash city environment each winter. No secret anymore.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Here is a map I made from a Google Earth shot during extreme low water...which shows the "Abyss" as a darker green spot of cleaner water in a surrounding sea of muddier water. It is a fairly large area with underwater contours like a big morning glory flower...with a deep narrow center and the flower around it a shallower (but still deep) flat plain.
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[#0000ff]Our best fishing was usually in about 20 to 25 feet of water...with the white bass cruising around in big circle about mid-depth. It was common to be watching your sonar showing 20 feet of water or more and then suddenly drop to read 13 feet as a thick school of white bass went by under your transducer.
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[#0000ff][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_view_flat;post=560117;page=1"]Here is a link[/url] to a report which includes catching some channel cats under the ice. Most trips just produced large numbers of white bass.
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[#0000ff]I had refrained from posting info on a public forum, but the "happy harvesters" followed our wheeler tracks out in some new snow one year and now it is a trash city environment each winter. No secret anymore.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Here is a map I made from a Google Earth shot during extreme low water...which shows the "Abyss" as a darker green spot of cleaner water in a surrounding sea of muddier water. It is a fairly large area with underwater contours like a big morning glory flower...with a deep narrow center and the flower around it a shallower (but still deep) flat plain.
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[#0000ff]Our best fishing was usually in about 20 to 25 feet of water...with the white bass cruising around in big circle about mid-depth. It was common to be watching your sonar showing 20 feet of water or more and then suddenly drop to read 13 feet as a thick school of white bass went by under your transducer.
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