I’m sitting here in my home away from home (5th wheel trailer) looking out the window at East Canyon. I can not see the top of the mountain across the lake due to the clouds and rain coming down. Bummer! And the weather report just a minute ago did not look promising for the rest of the morning. Maybe this afternoon.
We got up here Tuesday afternoon and a friend came up after work and we hit the lake about 6:30 after polishing off a couple of freshly grilled elk burgers. We fished Dixie Hollow by trolling assorted lures at 15 to 30 feet. The hot lure was a multi-colored squid behind a RMT flasher and the best depth was 20 feet. We boated 5 bows and kept 4 for eating. We quit around 9:00 PM.
I went out solo yesterday (Wednesday) morning and ran down to Taylor Hollow. I dropped one line down to 20 feet with a squid/flasher and ran a jointed #7 blue/silver floating Rapala on the surface. I fished for about 2 hours and had 3 takes; all on the Rapala. I put 2 in the net (and released them both) and LDR’d the last one after two spectacular jumps. Then I had to make a run down to Ogden for an afternoon meeting.
Today was supposed to be spent taking a friend from Morgan out to catch his dinner. Ain’t going to happen today. We rescheduled for Monday next week.
If the weather breaks later today, I’ll head out solo again. Well maybe I’ll take my lab with me. She enjoys joy riding in the boat and watching me fish.
Sorry JM - I’m not targeting bass this trip. I’m just doing the trout thing with some new lures purchased this spring.
I got up this morning to light grey skis and just a minimal breeze. I was on the water by 9:00AM and had 3 in the boat in the first 30 minutes. The water temp was 60/61 this morning which is a 5 degree drop from yesterday. But the trout were hungry anyway.
I put a J-7 blue/silver on the surface and a flasher/assorted fly’s down at 20 to 35 feet all day. The deep setup produced three fish all day. The surface setup was a killer all day. I had well over 20 hits that I saw. And I put 6 more in the boat and had 3 LDR’s. I even held the rod for about 5 minutes and had 4 hits while I was doing that.
I quit about 1:30 for lunch and by the time I got back to the trailer it started to sprinkle. Its 4:25 right now and it hasn’t stopped yet. I don’t think it will anytime soon. And tomorrows forecast isn’t promising either.
Thanks for posting your reports Bob. Even with all the poor weather, your catch rate has been pretty good. Did you catch any tiger trout?No, we did not catch any tiger trout. I didn’t know they were in East Canyon. If they are, its news to me.
The reason I ask, is because we caught a few last fall when we trolled the same area you have been fishing this last week. The last time they stocked the lake with tigers was 2008 from what I can see but they started stocking them in 2004 from what I can tell, maybe earlier.
