Utah Lake Kitties 6/6/06

[RiverRat77]

Hey Leaky, its ok that you went ahead and posted up. I will throw my report on here even though I didn't get my film developed yet. Wendy (the girlfriend) had a graduation to go to so I didn't have the digital this time. Anyway, I got there early,... about six thirty. I fished all along the tule's and didn't get anything. I was fishing the bobber rig that the Dude showed me. About the time that Leaky pulled up, I finally got my first bite and fought in a kittie that went about four pounds. I'm just guestimating here because I don't have an accurate scale that I can take. ANyway, I kicked back over to Leaky's launch point because I wanted to fish with he and Sparky. We worked north along the shore and caught fish along the cattails for the most part. It seemed like everytime we'd put a bobber tight to the cattails, we'd get a bite. I had caught about three channels, with one going probably eight or nine pounds (big old daddy cat). To date, I believe thats the biggest catfish I've ever caught out of this spot.... [cool] It was AWESOME!!! Leaky finally got his bobber on track and it went down... he had hooked into a mudcat. I tried to give him credit for ditching the skunk but he wouldn't take it unless it was a channel cat. Well, I let him kick over in front of me and fish a spot where cattails and tules mixed and WHAM.... as soon as he cast his bobber out, he looked away for a sec and it disappeared. That was definitely one of the highlights of the day... watching my good bud hook into his first good channel cat out of Utah Lake. We kept catching fish and I gave him some fresh carp meat to try... I believe thats what his first cat came on. Anyway, he was fishing the cattail point so I kicked around on the north side of him to keep working up the shore. I fished up against the cattails and in and out of the little cuts along the weedline and was doing really well.... About every fifteen minutes or so, the bobber would disappear and I'd have another fish. There were some times when I messed around with bait and hooks and that and wasted time but I fished pretty hard and did really well as long as I fished right next to the weeds. I caught several pretty large fish but I'd say the average was around 4-6 pounds. I did catch another really big blue headed daddy channel cat and it has to be the ugliest fish I've seen. It looked mostly normal except for the face. His left eye was all grown over, basically covered with transparent skin. It was all bloodshot looking and his mouth was all torn up too. The other side of his face was ok, but man, he was just an awful looking gray color and was ugly as sin. He put up a good fight and because he was so big, I let him go as well. Anyway, on the day, I fished for about 8 hours, caught 14-16 cats... I didn't really keep count. It was sure fun though. I was kinda worried because I didn't catch a fish all morning until Leaky showed up and then he had trouble getting on fish at first but once we figured them out, it was fast fishing... as fast as catfishing can really be I guess.... [] Great day on the water with two great fishing buddies.... glad we could steal some time to fish together down there. I'll post up the pics as soon as I get them burned on a CD and onto the internet.... should be a couple days yet.
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