Shifty needs to get his bass fix every once in a while, so we made a run to Sand Hollow in Southern Utah. The bass are plentiful in this body of water and they are Large Mouth Bass which is like Christmas to Shifty. We loaded up and hit the road at 4:00 am Wed. morning. We were on the water by 8:30. The day was HOT! 113 degrees by afternoon but we stuck it out in search of the bucket mouths.
We started out in the flats and reeds looking for topwater action. We got to our area only to find the trolling motor non-working again! I was not happy, I worked on it for a bit and found a trip switch that at least let the co-pilot work so we were partially functional. After that little dilemma, actually moved to a different area and I trolled a jerk bait to the new spot and hooked up a small one only to have it LDR, but it showed they were active. I threw a spook, to begin with, and a couple casts into the reeds and I hooked up my first Large Mouth Bass (LMB) of the trip. I landed it, took a couple pics and released it. We fished the area for another few minutes but got nothing else and Shifty wanted to move.
We moved to the pump house and Shifty started dragging a lizard and hooked up a couple nice LMB's with a Texas rig. We fished for most of the morning as it continued to produce fish for Shifty. It turned off in the early afternoon and we moved to the north dike where we threw crankbaits at the rocks. I landed one and had a couple more hookups. I let Shifty have the front seat and he caught fire and landed three largemouth bass in a matter of minutes running a bluegill pattern. We fished this area until 2:00 pm and moved around along the rocks on the northwest corner and made our way back to the dock. We loaded up and went to the hotel and dinner.
After dinner, we came back and fished the bank on the west dike. Shifty put on a number of different fire tiger lures and caught fire landing six largemouths in the short time we fished that evening. I put on what I had that looked like a fire tiger and caught 4 fish myself and then lost the lure to the rock garden. The sun had set and we couldn't see the line to put on a new lure so we called it a day. Back at the hotel, we longed at the hot tub for a while to loosen up our backs after being on the boat all day it felt great.
Day 2 we were on the water by 7:00 am and we went back to the flats. We scouted out areas yesterday before loading the boat and thought we could find some in the cooler morning air in the reeds. We fished for about an hour and got nothing. Shifty said to go where we caught fish last night at the dike, so motored over there. He put on a drop-shot ad started catching fish one after another, I don't fish bass that much and not familiar with the technique so I stayed with a texas rig and crankbaits. After he caught five in a row I decided to give the drop-shot technique a try. Like bait fishing with a plastic worm. I fished with it for a while and finally landed a bass. We trolled around and stayed on the dike the entire morning. Shifty caught a few more fish and I got one more as well. We fished until 1:00 pm and then had to load up for home.
We had a great time on Sand Hollow and Shifty got to use his new lure form Gull's Custom baits and caught a couple fish on it. The weather was nice but very hot 100 plus each day and that drove the fish deep. We will return later in the fall when it cools down a little.
This shot is a picture of the smoke plume from the Brianhead fire that was in full force while we were in Southern Utah. Amazing how much had burned in a short period of time.
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