White Bass from the Dock

Shifty and I made it to Provo boat harbor and fished the evening bite. This was an impromptu, "Hey let's meet at the Dock!" By the way, this was a couple weeks ago. I know, get yourself busy and keep your BLog up to date. Anyhow, we had a great evening on the docks. The algae bloom was in full force and the fishing wasn't great but the evening was awesome.

The temps were still hot and the water hasn't started to turn over yet. The fish are stacked in the mouths of the river but we weren't on the boat. So we enjoyed the evening on the dock. We threw plenty of different presentations at them to get them to bite. Shifty figured out the lure by going back to his favorite set up with a blue fox and a trailer of the treble. I got into a few on the basic curly tail jig.

The sunset was spectacular. I got a bonus Crappie just as the sun was setting and that wrapped up the evening as the bugs became crazy thick! Shifty headed north and I headed south. Until next time get outside.

Monster Bass at Deer Creek

Last week Parker and I picked up Shifty and headed to Deer Creek. Morning fishing for Rainbow trout, later going for bass. We launched in the twilight of the morning. We headed to the dam lanes and started trolling, we were on the Fish Steeler this trip. Parker set his downrigger with dodgers and squid, Shifty set his purple tiger at 12 feet and I set my husky jerk at 6 feet.

             

                       

Making the first turn at the buoys Parker hooked up the first rainbow. It was a nice sized fat bow. Not long after that, he hooked up the second both at 25 feet. Shifty and I both thought well we need to deeper. Shifty caught the next one however at the shallower depth. I put on a deeper diving purple descent and put my leadline out with a favorite spoon. Shifty got the next fish with his purple tiger. I put on a perch pattern and got the next fish with a big hit. This was all before the sun broke the horizon.

As the sun broke the horizon the fishing died off a little. We figured because of the full moon. We didn't care we were having fun. The hits didn't stop until about 9:30 and then we pulled up the trolling motor and went to the island. We trolled the cliffs into the bay and made our turn. Shifty was skeptical until both Parker and I hooked up with our final rainbows of the morning. All were nice fat trout. We finished with around 15 caught and 11 in the live well. They all had nice thick filets on them. We continued in the lane and turned around back toward the island and Shifty git a hit, a perch on the troll, and a decent-sized one.

We pulled up the trolling gear and motor and crossed the lake to the rocks. Parker wanted to catch bass on a drop shot and knew Shifty is a master at the drop shot, so he wanted to learn from him. Shifty obliged and started with a drop shot himself. The previous trip he lost his baby bass lure and hasn't found a replacement yet. He and Parker tried the drop shot for a while. Parker was getting hits but didn't land one on the drop shot. We fished water depths up to 20 feet.

On the other end of the boat, I was throwing an old reliable baby bass lure that I protect heavily and only use on certain occasions. It was on fire! It caught fish the rest of the morning and I was very careful what I threw it into. I only have the one left and have not been able to find a replacement of it's kind anywhere. I have even paid someone to try and reproduce it....no luck! Anyways it was catching bass like crazy and nice sized ones both smallmouth and largemouth bass. Shifty got a few bass as well and Parker finally got a smallmouth on a crankbait.

The story of the day was my PB largemouth bass. I got it on video! However, I did not get a pic. This big boy swallowed my baby bass deep. I got the hooks out and was going to clean it off with a quick dip in the lake. It felt the water and gave a head shake and was gone! Lessoned learned, wash the fish off in the net!! Total rookie mistake! But I got it on video and it was definitely my PB for largemouth in Utah waters. We fished for another little while and then called it a day and a great day it was.

Utah Lake - White Bass and Perch

Jimmy invited me to go out his boat, many times, and it finally worked out to where I could join them. We met up at his house and loaded into his truck. we headed for Lindon marina and launched around 9 am. The water was calm and the day was hot. Max and Harrison joined us. We cruised out of the marina and turned north. Jimmy is getting to know this lake quite well and able to find fish when no one else is catching any. We moved into a spot that he had been to earlier. We rigged our poles and started casting.

It didn't take long for the fish to start hitting our jigs. Harrison started us off and then Max and the catching continued at a fast pace. Jimmy and I finally got on the board with our first fish of the day. We were fishing with curly tail grubs in all colors. As Jimmy pointed it out it really doesn't matter what color if they are there you will catch fish, and if they aren't there it doesn't matter what color you use you won't catch any. We fished for about an hour and a half and catching nice sized white bass with the occasional perch. I didn't even know they had perch in that lake. We tried to catch crappie but no luck. After we caught enough keepers for bait we went after catfish. We didn't find any on this trip. We tried some new spots, but they didn't pan out. Next time!

Deer Creek - Hat Tricks + One!

Shifty and I haven't been out that much this summer. He is in love with Sand Hollow and during the middle of the summer, it's too hot for me. So when he is home for the week we get out to our favorite lake Deer Creek. Today we launched the Shifty Cruiser in the twilight of the morning. The water was uncommonly smooth and we enjoyed it for most of the day.

We launched and head to the dam and started trolling. Shifty threw out his favorite flicker shad. I put on a husky jerk. It didn't take long for the flicker shad to get a hit and the catching began. Shifty's flicker shad was on fire. He caught most of the fish for the morning. We each ended the morning with three rainbow trout in the live well. On the dam turn around I caught a smallmouth bass trolling, that is the second one we have caught trolling. The first was last season at Rockport. We fished a couple lanes to get our total of six. we finished off in Charleston bay trolling shallow and I got my first perch. After this, we decided to call it for trolling and start to target the banks for bass.

We headed to the rocks and planned on getting into the smallmouth bass. We found the smallmouth bass and caught quite a few of them. However, the day was owned by the largemouth bass and Shifty. He had the lure they wanted. He was throwing a baby bass lure that he bought years ago and only had one. I only had, because at the end of the morning an underwater tree ate it. Before that happened he caught some monster-sized largemouth bass two of which set his PB's for Deer Creek. Needless to say, he was ecstatic and I was happy for him......well mostly...hahaha. We ended the day with 29 fish, we both hit the DC quad. Shifty Caught rainbow, smallmouth, largemouth, and a kicker bonus Walleye. I caught rainbow, smallmouth, largemouth and perch.

We enjoyed our morning on the lake and made some great memories to talk about around the campfire.