** So, I went to Utah Lake today after some kitties. After reading all the recent posts I got excited and thought I should give it a try. **
** Launched at Lindon kind of late (9:30 am), started fishing in 5 feet of water. One pole had a worm and the other sucker meat. First fish was a perch, so I cut him up and put 'em on the hook, but no takers. Next fish was a white bass (on a worm), so I cut him up and put 'em on the hook and next thing you know my line is streaming off in the opposite direction. Landed that 7 lb bad boy in no time. I then caught several more white bass and a couple smaller cats.**
** I tried some bass meat under a bobber next and BAM, 5 pounder in the boat (he is the smaller one in the pic). Caught all fish with white bass meat. I heard that the carp meat is doing well too, but you have to catch one to get the meat and I didn’t catch a single carp today. All in all a good day at the Lake. 7 big white bass and 4 cats. [:)]**
Nice cats. What’s that dirt on yer chin? [;)]
TD catches some nice kitties out of UL as well. There are some big momma’s in that lake.
You do good work. Those ugly fish pull hard, don’t they?
They sure do pull hard! I didn’t think they were all that big until they got closer to the boat and dove for the depths, then it was like trying to pull up my anchor with my fishing pole [:)].
** I fried up some of the catfish and the whitebass last night, man that stuff is good.**
It is tough to fight larger kitties from a boat, especially on lighter tackle. They get their head down and you really gotta have some “lift” in the rod to bring them up.
**That is one of the advantages of fighting large fish from a float tube. You can keep kicking away from the fish and putting sideways pressure on them. That tires them out better than lifting straight up. Also helps prevent getting line tangles around anchor ropes…or your legs if you are in a tube. **