Rockport 1/29 AM...Love me some perch!

Utah Fishing Reports & Discussion Utah Fishing General
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I will ALWAYS help the next guy catch fish, if I can (which is seldom, unfortunately). I’ve always been passionate about fishing, since BEFORE the first bluegill I ever caught when I was 4 years old. Twenty years ago, I decided to actually learn how to do it. I knew very little despite becoming a nuisance at Angler’s Inn, reading Outdoor Life, and the local “Utah Fishing and Outdoors” paper publication. My Dad wasn’t a great fisherman, either, we were new to the State, I’d never been icefishing until I was over 30, etc…

THIS FORUM TAUGHT ME HOW TO FISH. I am now, at 50 years old, far better informed, knowledgeable, and better equipped. TubeDude is the MAN, but dozens of people have fed me a tidbit about water temps, conditions, when NOT to go, lures, access, where to start looking on any given lake, etc. Before that we had failed on three trips to even catch a catfish at UL, and more o less given up. Can you imagine?

I’ve seen lots of weird water years, fish crashes, etc…since then, and big changes even just in 20 years. I have caught 200 perch through one hole one day and 6 the next. I will never rat out YOUR favorite spot, but I will always try to help the next guy.

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Well said Bob and thanks for your reply on this subject.
 To push this thread ever more off topic I wanted to let everyone know that BFT will come up on a major mile stone in the coming days, it’s 20th birthday, I’ll be starting a seperate thread on that subject soon, so please reply with your comments about that on the new thread.

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It took some doing, but after a few minutes of initital success followed by 1.5 hrs of dead time, finally found the school and was able to follow it for a couple hours. Definitely had to be mobile to keep on the fish. Fished the west side around Rocky Point (further south than I was earlier this week). Best lures were a green/yellow halie on the bottom with a chartreuse teardrop jig 10"above. 40ish FOW.

Lots of folks around and people were catching so long as the school stuck around. Once the school moved, you had to move with them or it was dead city.

Interesting point, the early, early AM bite was great in the dark, but as soon as the sun came over the mountain, it was like someone turned the switch off. That’s when the searching began…
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