Last week I team up with Uinta Recreation on a 4 day trip to Lake Powell. Adam Pulley, owner of Uinta Recreation invited me to go with him to break in his new 2150 Crestliner. Knowing the fishing was going to be a little slower this early in the spring we were the only fishers going. We met up Wednesday morning at 5 am and took off for Bullfrog marina and the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The trip wasn't nearly as long as I remembered it being some 30 plus years ago when I last went to Lake Powell. We arrived at Bullfrog marina and checked into our campsite and set up for the week. Adam brought his 30-foot travel trailer for us to relax in after our long days on the lake. The trip down was smooth even though he was over 70 feet long nose to tail with his set up.
We got on the lake around noon for the rest of the afternoon-evening and fished Bullfrog Bay and also went over to Halls Crossing marina and the ferry boat bay. The evening was great a little breezy but still awesome. The beauty and grandeur of Lake Powell is breathtaking. We trolled Bullfrog and landed a few Striper bass for the cooler. We trolled light gear, shallow. We had hits on the stick baits we were using almost immediately. It didn't continue to be fast but consistent. After a couple hours of trolling and getting a good number of Stripers in the cooler Adam took us across the main channel to Halls. We fished in the boat ferry bay and cast into the shallows. We caught a couple smallmouth bass and Walleye. The fishing was spotty as we thought it would be. Loading the boat in the wind made for some fun but Adam put it on the runners without hesitation. The evening came to a close with us processing our catch with fillets and packaging them and putting them the freezer that Adam had brought down.
Thursday morning brought in more wind as a front was approaching. We started out this morning over on Moki Wall and trolled upstream to a couple bays. The fishing was spotty and not too consistent. The weather had cooled the water temp down to 51 degrees, not conducive to bass fishing. We did manage a few that morning but wanted to fill our cooler and so we fished Bullfrog Bay for the rest of the day and evening. We filled our cooler again with a good number of Stripers. We saw an approaching storm cell and made our way to the boat ramp quickly, luckily a boat had just loaded and was heading up the ramp, now about a quarter-mile long hike, I threw out my thumb and they gave me a ride to the top. I quickly got the trailer int he water and Adam pulled the boat on quickly. We got to the cleaning station and put our fish on the cutting boards and the heavens opened up for about 20 minutes. Heavy rain and winds stopped to give us a great double rainbow complete end to end.
Friday morning we went south down to Escalante Canyon. We stopped and fished a few different canyons along the way. We fished the Rincon, Iceberg, and Clear Creek while we were down there. The fishing was very slow today in this area. The water was clear and cold. We fished this area of the lake until 3 pm and called it and went back to Bullfrog bay where we loaded the cooler in a couple hours. We loaded the boated and processed the days catch again. We talked on our way back to camp and decided to sleep in and prepare for the trip home in the morning.
Saturday morning came around and I took the boat to be decontaminated and Adam readied the trailer for departure. The folks at the cleaning station were a little put off that I wanted the boat deconned, but I insisted and asked if that wasn't the rule and purpose of their jobs and they agreed and completed their duties. Returning back to camp we loaded the freezer full of fillets into the back of the truck and hitched up the train again for the return trip home. We finished with around 30 pounds of fillets. We caught 4 different species of fish; Stripers, Walleye, Smallmouth, and Large Mouth bass. I had a great time and felt the fishing was okay, Adam emphasized that the fish we caught is usually a day's catch. Weather and water temps definitely played a roll in how the fishing went. The area and views are priceless and the accommodations of Adam's boat and trailer were great! Uinta Recreation rents the trailers, water toys all summer.
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