Saturday morning, I picked up Devin Ashby at Macey's and we made our way to Jordanelle as the sun broke the horizon we were going into the Rock Cliff area of the reservoir where the Provo river feeds the reservoir. Devin wanted to catch smallmouth bass and earlier in the season we had great success in this leg of the lake catching them. As we entered this leg of the lake the sunrise was spectacular and we could see spin-drift columns of mist rising 30 feet into the air. As we approached our destination through the mist we could see boats start to appear and fishermen standing at the bow and stern of each boat. I mentioned, to Devin, it looked like they were in a tournament. We later talked to a couple of them and sure enough they were. We made our way around the boats and into the backside of them, the area we had fished earlier in the year was now high and dry by 30 feet. The water level is below 70% right now and still dropping.
I could still see good structure and maneuvered the boat back into the spot I wanted to be in and away from the tournament boats. I put on a lipless crankbait to begin and had Devin put on a shallow diving crankbait. Once we were positioned we started casting, on the third cast I landed the first fish of the day. A smallmouth bass about 1.5 lbs, once the tourney boys seen this happen they closed in quickly and basically moved us out of the area as I released my fish and got a pic or two. I wheeled around worked back into the spot I was in, but by then three boats had stationed up and fish were being blasted with hardware. We made our way to another hole on the south shore of the leg and started fishing back towards the west. The fish turned off! We fished for two hours and got a couple hits. I remembered a rock pile as we came into the area and made our way back to it. There Devin hooked up a smallmouth but lost it right at the boat. Again the boats closed in on us, asking if we were in the tournament and we explained we weren't. They saw us catch the one earlier and were impressed by the size of it. We fished this area for another hour moving to the north shore and moved along it until the wind and skiers became too much.
We moved back into the marina bay where we had good success earlier as well. Remember we were fishing for smallmouth bass. Devin was tossing a baby bass type crankbait and got a hit within a couple casts. As he reeled it in we could see that it was a nice sized rainbow trout, Devin got on the board. By this time, we had only boated the one smallmouth bass. We continued to fish the bay for a couple hours and we ended up boating three more fish, with Devin landing another nice sized rainbow trout on a crankbait. He did finally land a smallmouth bass, his first ever so it was a very successful day. By 1:00 pm it had turned off again and we called it a day. We loaded and headed for home. The fishing was hard and slow but the day on the lake was spectacular, starting with the sunrise and ending with great views of the fall colors, with a few fish being boated along the way. Till next time “Keep It Bent”.
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