Mike_d when I’ve fished from shore I used a Carolina rig under a bobber. I set the leader length 24-36" and use same baits as you. Last year i took CBMIGP (chicken breast marinated in parlic powder) decided to try it on shrimp. So I sprinkled a little garlic powder over shrimp not a lot, I also made up a bag of shrimp marinated in vanilla extract. So I take a bag of pain, bag of garlic, and bag of vanilla shrimp. I put half a worm on the hook them put half a piece of shrimp over the worm. That’s my go to rig and baiting method when using shrimp and worm.
I’ll have to try some garlic on my shrimp. I would recommend a bobber set at the depth of the water you think you are fishing in, or casting to. From the bank, you just have to guess. I just use regular red and white clamp on bobber if it’s 4 feet or less. It it is deeper I use a slip on with bobber stop. But I two use half a night crawler first. I love to watch my bobbers.
Made it to Utah lake state park on Sunday and fished off of the north Jetty. Wind was a little chilly to start off, but it died down mid-day and it made for a beautiful warm day.
Got 3 small bullheads and 1 fat perch all on worms off the bottom. Didn’t get any hits on shrimp (even shrimp tipped with worms), no hits on any plastics, spinners, or anything else that was thrown, and I threw about everything in the tackle box at them.
There were a number of other people out fishing, and I didn’t see or hear anyone catching anything. The only one having great success was the park ranger catching everyone that “forgot” to pay the entrance fees!
I took the time to ask Chris Penne from DWR. I will see if he can respond to my email.
As the regulations are written, I do not believe that a ticket would stand up to a court of law. The point of it being difficult to tell a junnie from other suckers is valid, in fact, historically the “State Experts” were fooled in a public hearing when Snake River Suckers were put before them.
Nevertheless, the way the guidebook is written, there is no grey area, sucker flesh is permitted in any body of water where bait is legal, and bait is legal in UL.
Clearly if sucker meat is not permitted, clarifications should be made ASAP on the state website.
We will see. This is one case where I can see both sides of the case, but “the glove did not fit so I cannot convict”.
The reply I got back from Chris didn’t really give a yay or nay on the issue."Thanks Pat. I brought this up at a regulations meeting about a month ago. I’ll keep working on it. " I sent a followup request for a clearer explanation
This came up last year. The Northerners who were coming to the Flotilla at UL wondered if they could bring one of their favorite baits, sucker meat. If I recall correctly, TD ran it past someone in the DWR and they were dismayed to see that the regulation had been printed allowing sucker as bait in UL. They said that it was fully their intent to exclude sucker use in UL. I expected it to be changed in the 2020 Guidebook but it was printed the same way. At that time (2019 Flotilla) I opted not to use sucker meat that I had leftover from a trip to Flaming Gorge–went with the spirit of the law rather than the letter. Didn’t hurt me a bit. Can’t imagine why someone would want to use sucker anyway when there are better baits easily available.