Fishing Jordanelle - Browns and Wipers

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Thursday's are back again for another summer season. Shifty is off the ice and back on the boat. We made our way to Jordanelle in hopes of finding some brown trout. We launched just before sunrise and were trolling as it got light. The day was supposed to be a bluebird day but it turned out to be overcast and windy a typical Thursday fishing day.

We trolled a few different lanes trying to find the honey hole but to no avail. Shifty did get into a nice brown trout in our second lane. However, our day did not turn up a whole lot of action. We tried another lane just north of the marina and Shifty got another hit, or was it a snag, or a log? He continued to reel it in and when it saw the boat it finally gave a few head shakes. This was a treat of a fish. The first wiper to be landed on the Fish Steeler and a decent sized one at that. 18 inches and fat and it hit trolling gear.

We fished this area looking for more hits, but nothing so we moved to the small boat launch lane. Shifty landed his third fish of the day another decent-sized brown trout. We continued in this lane for a few trips but nothing else hit. We moved into Rockcliff's leg and cruised the banks and then went into the deep waters hoping to get something to join us. After trolling the entire leg we went back into the river inlet and fished the turbid waters to see if anything would hit but again nothing. We trolled our way out of the river's mouth and made our way back into the main channel and pulled into the road lane. Setting back up for trolling we watched a boat land four fish in a few minutes and we were thinking alright! Getting into the lane and setting the course we dropped lines. Into it about 20 minutes and Shifty hooks up another smaller brown trout. About five minutes later I finally get one to hit my line. It felt good to finally have one fighting at the end of the line. I brought it up to the boat only to have it head shake and free itself from my hooks. Needless to say, I was not happy it got away. We fished for another hour or so and had nothing else happen and the wind was starting to howl so we called it a day.