Willard Perch Search...With Video 11-29-21

[SkunkedAgain]

Hey Pat here's my report, be really careful in Logan Canyon, I was heading up this morning in the dark and as I got to the first passing lane my truck went into an out of control slide... Roads looked dry and good, but apparently they had black ice on them, I recovered and slowed way down.... About the time I got to the next passing lane my truck went into a slide again.... really freaked me out to be on what looked like good roads and my truck was behaving worse than on snowy roads... Slowed way down to old time grandpa mode for the rest of the trip through the canyon.... Got passed by half a dozen outfits, which really never happens to me... Anyway went to Cisco beach to launch and holy crap that ramp is a mess, so I drove back to first point to launch.... Not knowing any intel I started scouting with the side finder and I really blew it, seen a bunch of fish in a group around 1st point, but since there weren't any rocks near by I figured they must not be whities so I kept moving, mostly wanting to go to cisco beach since I sort of know how to fish it there... Anyway I tried to search out second point really well, but didn't see anything on the side finder so I kept moving and not very fast my boat sucks, I could only get up to 7 mph today... Well got to cisco eventually and what do you know but there was a white fish dumb enough for me to catch it, and shortly after I got a second one.. I fished for about an hour on cisco and then since my boat was so slow I quit about noon and headed back... Took me till 1:00 to gest back to first point and I seen a guy catching a whitie off second point and when I got back to 1st point I found that I'd left a good spot to look for fish elsewhere... A guy in a tube had caught 5 and a couple other boats were fishing pretty hard off there and looked like they must have been onto something... Anyway to sum it up, I really screwed up today and moved way too much and still caught two fish so it must be pretty good right now... I sacrificed some tackle to the snag god and found that most of my rigs didn't work very well.. 1/4 oz jig worked best for me, it was the only thing I could get to the bottom without snagging... The hanger sinkers didn't work very well for me today, maybe I needed heavier ones, however that was what I was using when I lost my favorite homemade whitefish catcher, it was working really well and if I wouldn't have snagged on the second cast I think I would have caught fish with it, but now I'll never know... I had set up a santee type rig that I thought would work really well, but my float was too floaty or my weight too light, so that one didn't see action... but it was fun and most of the day was nice flat water... I did see a few white caps as I was trying to load my boat, but I still got it loaded okay... Anyway next time I'll try not to be such a scatter brain and do a little more fishing... Later J