Hi All
My youngest boy, Max 10yrs (NEARLY 11 DAD!!!), and I left Friday around noon to Flaming Gorge. We were meeting up with a couple of his school mates and their Dad who has a boat that he kindly invited us out onto for the weekend. We arrived, loaded up and were out on the water trolling by 4pm.
We had 2 down riggers with lures at 60ft and another at about 15ft. Old mate hooked up to a trout (think it is called a Mackinaw? He is camera shy so I am holding it up)
Then it started to cloud over and the forecasted thunderstorms rolled in so we legged it into a nice quiet cove to ride it out for the evening.
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I got up nice and early the next morning (WHILE THE OTHERS SLEPT!!) and threw some lures around for little success. Can’t complain too much. Stunning scenery.
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Then off we went trolling deep again for the lake trout and Kokane Salmon. Nuthin! So for lunch we parked up, had a swim and relaxed. Thought I would throw in some of my favourite Strike King Lipless crank baits and came away smiling with a nice small mouth bass. (My biggest yet)
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Then the storms rolled in again. We decided to flee to the Wyoming side of the resevior .
We anchored up and rode it out with a beer and a few tunes. When it cleared we were back at it. The boys started cathing Crawdads on line, jig heads and ham. Had a ball and was pulling em in hand over fist. A little late we satrted fishing again . My young fella Max got a nice Small Mouth Bass similar to the one I got the day before so he was stoked and mentioned to me it was both his first bass and first fish at the Gorge (he keeps tabs on his achievements). A little later I hooked up onto something solid (nightcrawler, no sinker, 3ft trace, off a float). Now a bit of background here. Max had asked me earlier if he could reel in the next fish I caught. As I had been catching tiddler SMBs I said “yeah no worries mate”. Well my rod is bent in half and he says “Dad, you promised. Hand it over”. It was like handing over my last beer on a hot day I tells ya!!! But a promise is a promise and the look on my young blokes face while he is crankin a 22 inch trout in on 8lb line and a 7ft rod was priceles!!!
Got it on video but no photo of him with it but here it is with the bass and the trout from day 1.
So off to bed as it was getting late.
Up again early next day trolling deep at 60ft and 90 ft for nuthin. Plenty of fish marked on the sounder, plenty of other boats but… Oh well, thats fishin’ So we went swimming and headed home.
Not our most productive fishing expedition but great memories and fantastic scenery.