08-20-2019, 07:17 PM
[#0000ff]Translation: Lincoln Beach on Utah Lake with Boatloadakids. Pulled in behind BLK's truck and boat trailer right at 6 am...as we had agreed. Purty sunrise...a promise for the day. Didn't lie.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Air temp just over 50 at launch with a light breeze. Water temp 75 in the main lake. Water pretty clean for that lake. Lotsa whitie tykes dimpling the surface slurping midges. But didn't even try fishing for white bass. BLK had brought all he needed and I had two dozen LHBE chub minnows in magnum size...5-7 in.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Started dragging bait out off the point in 9-10 fow. Slow, but BLK scored one cookie cutter cat on a piece of white bass. Then a long period of nada. I suggested we fish 7-8 fow off Benjamin Slough. Started in 6 feet and worked slowly out to deeper water. When we reached about 8 feet we started seeing fish on sonar and then began feeling fish on our rods.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was dragging a large whole chub on one rod and fishing a half chub on a flig on the second rod. I had brought along some new gorilla fligs with elongated bodies painted in my new "perple purch" color. I began going back and forth with fish on both rods with fair regularity. I insisted BLK use some of my chubs and accept a couple of the new fligs too. He did, and he got busy with more fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In short, it was a lovely morning with light breezes and lots of playful cats. Biggest was about 28 inches but plenty of 2-footers and a couple of bigger ones. They really liked the combo of chub meat and perple purch fligs. While most fish were hooked in the corner of the mouth, a couple just gulped down the whole big gorilla flig and meat and required some effort to recover our trinkets before releasing the greedy cats.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Looking forward to the cooling temps of fall and the prospect of some bigger fish. Thanks for the great boat trip, Lynn.
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[#0000ff]Air temp just over 50 at launch with a light breeze. Water temp 75 in the main lake. Water pretty clean for that lake. Lotsa whitie tykes dimpling the surface slurping midges. But didn't even try fishing for white bass. BLK had brought all he needed and I had two dozen LHBE chub minnows in magnum size...5-7 in.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Started dragging bait out off the point in 9-10 fow. Slow, but BLK scored one cookie cutter cat on a piece of white bass. Then a long period of nada. I suggested we fish 7-8 fow off Benjamin Slough. Started in 6 feet and worked slowly out to deeper water. When we reached about 8 feet we started seeing fish on sonar and then began feeling fish on our rods.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was dragging a large whole chub on one rod and fishing a half chub on a flig on the second rod. I had brought along some new gorilla fligs with elongated bodies painted in my new "perple purch" color. I began going back and forth with fish on both rods with fair regularity. I insisted BLK use some of my chubs and accept a couple of the new fligs too. He did, and he got busy with more fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In short, it was a lovely morning with light breezes and lots of playful cats. Biggest was about 28 inches but plenty of 2-footers and a couple of bigger ones. They really liked the combo of chub meat and perple purch fligs. While most fish were hooked in the corner of the mouth, a couple just gulped down the whole big gorilla flig and meat and required some effort to recover our trinkets before releasing the greedy cats.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Looking forward to the cooling temps of fall and the prospect of some bigger fish. Thanks for the great boat trip, Lynn.
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