Strawberry

6.15.13  Fished Strawberry with Craig today went to Renegade marina and fished in the Indian Springs bay and channel.  We fished from 7:30 to 3:30.  Best fishing was definitely the morning in the bay they were hitting rainbow pop and worm for us.  Mac was running a Jake's lure and a green tube jig trolling he had one hit on the Jake's.  After I landed my 5th fish he decided to join the dark side and throw out some pop gear.  he had his first hit that took the entire pop gear rig....lol we are saying it was a huge fish.  Re-rigged and kept going and caught a few more before the hit shut off around 10:30-11:00.  There were so many boats in the bay it was crazy!  They were anchored and bait fishing some were doing well others weren't catching anything.  We ended up with around 20 fish, couple of nice Rainbows and a couple that gilled themselves we had to keep ended up in our cooler on ice.  We caught a couple bruiser cutthroats and bunch of medium sized ones but no keepers!  We broke for lunch and went to the narrows, by then the wind had kicked up as it does at Strawberry.  Put the boat sideways and slow drifted the channel with everything we could think of, but got nothing.  We decided we had gotten enough sun by 3:30 and went for home.  On the way out we got stopped by a check station they had 50 Fish and Game cops there checking everyone.  Good to see them actually patrolling somewhat.

Looking for Mr. Whiskers!

June 7 Parker and went out to UL and searched for Mr. Whiskers.  We found a few of them and then some.   Started at Mud Lake and ended up at Bird Island. BI is basically covered right now so if you venture out be careful of getting to close. Just sayin'. We found the deep hole and got into some nice blues and channels. Bluebird day and lots of fun. Boat is coming along and becoming a decent fishing boat.  Parker ended up catching the most and the biggest of the day, 5 lber.  I actually did the quintfecta of UL caught all 3 types of cats, mud, channel and blue also put in the cooler a couple white bass and a perch!  Good day for me.  We had a blast caught a lot of sun and fish.  Headed back to the marina after we established weigh points for the hole.

Flaming Gorge!

Beautiful boat!  Capt.  Monty Thurgood

June 1st, Fished with Capt. Monty today all 3 boys were on the boat.  The started with us meeting up with Capt. Monty at the Lucerne Marina Docks on Flaming Gorge.  We were looking to get into some big Mackinaws, but Monty siad we could but wouldn't catch many fish, he talked us into running for Kokanee so we followed his expert advice.  We started off with a couple nice strikes and a couple nice lip rips, Kokanee are very soft jawed and it took us a couple attempts to figure out and listen to Monty on how to reel them in.  I ended up landing the first one of the day.  

Rogan caught the most fish for the day and a nice Rainbow.  Jim caught a couple Kokanee, which was the flavor of the day.  Parker caught the biggest of the day with a 3 lb Kokanee.  First time fishing for Kokanee, it was interesting they have very soft lips and any little tug on the line would rip the hook out of their jaw.  It definitely has to be finessed in.  We lost a number of fish due to not keeping a little pressure on the "tip".  Monty was great he treated us like royalty and made the trip a great day.  He wasn't happy with the numbers but we had an absolute blast!  Monty kept us entertained all day.  

His boat, the "Fish Teaser", is absolutely fabulous!!!  He finished the day off with cleaning our catch for us and bagging the filets.  They will be smoked tomorrow with Pecan chips.  We learned tons about fishing for the Kokanee Salmon.  We met up with Colton Christenson at the cleaning station we fished his lures all day.  Picked up some of his lures at the marina store.

Deer Creek with Kelly and Parker

Getting caught up.  Not out today, waiting for my newest Grandson to come home.  But we have been out many times since my last post so I will use this time to catch up.

May 25th, went with Parker and Kelly today had 20+ fish day.  We ended up keeping a limit of 12 with a couple decent bookends.  They were hitting the Green blade pretty deep today.  The small ones were taking the rainbow pop.  The larger ones hit on the JoD's.

Kelly with the first of the day

On the water by 6am and first fish by Kelly by 6:05am on the blade.  Had a great day and things worked very well on the boat.  Still in need of a good fish finder.  Water temp was 58* a little chilly and it was a full moon.  Definitely hitting in specific areas along the dead sea route.  Nothing huge and no browns in the normal routes.