11-11-2019, 12:33 PM
[#0000ff]One last comment or suggestion for fishing browns in many of our Utah Lakes. Try drop-shotting with Gulp Minnows. Our long-time member, Bassrods, used the 3" smelt color minnows for fishing his beloved smallies...mostly in Jordanelle...and he caught grundles of nice browns on them.
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[#0000ff]When I was still a modertater on this board, I used to help technologically challenged Bassrods to post his pictures. While he did not like to stop fishing for bass long enough to take pictures of silly slimers he did post plenty of pics of browns from about 18 inches to the mid twenty inches. I can verify that he had days with over 20 browns he did get many over 5# (estimated).[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In addition, I fished with Bassrods in his boat on Starvation in late February one year. Using the aforementioned Gulp Minnows we both caught a lot of "Starvation steelheads" (rainbows). And Cliff caught a couple of nice browns...one of which is in the attached picture.[/#0000ff]
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[/#0000ff] [#0000ff]The main "takeaway" on Bassrods and brown trout is that he caught them fishing on the bottom...at the depth he was working for smallies. The idea is that browns and smallies probably feed on the same things in the same area...at the same times of year. A lot of the time...in many of our Utah waters...both species will be feeding on small perch. And the 3" Gulp minnow in smelt pattern is "near nuff" to get them to munch.
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[#0000ff]When I was still a modertater on this board, I used to help technologically challenged Bassrods to post his pictures. While he did not like to stop fishing for bass long enough to take pictures of silly slimers he did post plenty of pics of browns from about 18 inches to the mid twenty inches. I can verify that he had days with over 20 browns he did get many over 5# (estimated).[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In addition, I fished with Bassrods in his boat on Starvation in late February one year. Using the aforementioned Gulp Minnows we both caught a lot of "Starvation steelheads" (rainbows). And Cliff caught a couple of nice browns...one of which is in the attached picture.[/#0000ff]
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[/#0000ff] [#0000ff]The main "takeaway" on Bassrods and brown trout is that he caught them fishing on the bottom...at the depth he was working for smallies. The idea is that browns and smallies probably feed on the same things in the same area...at the same times of year. A lot of the time...in many of our Utah waters...both species will be feeding on small perch. And the 3" Gulp minnow in smelt pattern is "near nuff" to get them to munch.
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