Saturday, Jim, Parker and myself went hunting for catfish. We started out in the reeds but the water is so low in Utah Lake that we had to literally push our boat back into deeper water.
We headed out to Bird Island about 8:30 and anchored up in our favorite hole with drop offs all around us. Parker was first out and first with a catfish. We thought "alright it's going to be a good day." We each put two poles out and watched. Parker got another nice catfish in a few minutes, then I got a hit and brought it in but it was a mud cat so we released it. Parker had brought in two nice channel catfish on hot dogs, mine was on shrimp. We kept the same set up for a bit and then I got another hit and brought it in, it fighting hard and felt heavy and thought I had hooked up a nice blue catfish, but no, the flash of gold told me I caught a big carp! It was a nice one at 7 lbs, but still a carp, doing my civic duty I did not return it to the lake. Utah DNR is trying to remove the carp to save the June Sucker, a native fish found only in Utah Lake. We fished the island for a couple hours and caught a few more cats and missed a number of hits. 
We went to another favorite spot at the south end of the lake with buried rock piles which we know they like to hang out on. We were in the water for just seconds before a big hit a Jim's pole happened. He reeled it in for a couple minutes fighting it in, it was gator rolling like crazy. Jim finally got it to the boat and it was a big blue catfish, the biggest of the day! Jim was very happy to have caught the big blue, he was fearing that he might get shut out. We all caught a couple catfish in the rock piles and Parker managed a white bass. It was getting hot and the wind started to come up and a storm was on the horizon. Utah Lake is not a lake to be on when the wind kicks up so we headed for the dock with a nice well full of Taco fillets.
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