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Have you made a recent fishing
trip to Lake Powell?
If you have, please let us know how you did. Send your fishing report to
Wayne Gustaveson (wayne@wayneswords.com)
via E-mail. Please include who you are and where you're from, dates fished,
location, tackle used, species and number of fish caught and any other
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Fish Report Guidelines
No pictures are needed but they add to the
reports. My goal is to post a basic report that will make it easier for someone
else to catch fish in your spot. Please send the basics with each report -
where you caught fish, what techniques, lures, depth, and what special
strategy worked. Our goal here is to save shad by encouraging harvest of striped
bass. If we do that then all fisheries benefit from the effort.
Keep the reports coming. Try to limit
pictures to no more than 5. I need to have them in jpg format to keep up with
the volume received. I use these pictures for news media releases so
high resolution photos are needed of the best photos. A fuzzy photo can be low
res and I will still use it for the web but not print media. Be aware that your
photo may be used in other locations.
If possible send, first and last name, and
hometown. The media likes unusual pictures of kids (include age) and gals. Be
creative when taking photos. (see the kid and catfish picture below.) Change
poses and backgrounds. Use the flash in full sun to make the face show up under
the hat.
Keep the reports coming. Thanks to all
who have contributed because it makes it easier for a new arrival to start
fishing with confidence needed to catch fish on this huge lake.
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If you have a general question try
posting on WAYNESWORDS
FORUMS.

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January 17, 2009 - Marty Peterson - Bullfrog
stripers |
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Fished out of Bullfrog for a few days this week. We had an
informal group of anglers including the host of KUTV Roughin it Outdoors. So
he had a chance to take some video. Tentatively to show Jan. 23. And also
Dan from the DWR.
On Wed. morning two of us started out by heading up to Lake Canyon. Landed 1
Striper. Had to be back to Bullfrog to meet up with others at noon. But
delays allowed us to head up to upper Bullfrog Bay. Found Stripers on graph.
Caught 10 in an hour on Wallylures. Called other boats on radio and let them
know the fish were biting. Picked up late arriving angler and headed back.
Had dropped a marker buoy.
As soon as the boat's momentum stopped we lowered our spoons to the fish.
All three poles hooked up at once. Then hardly even another bite after that.
Of course the two other boats showed up after the fishing slowed.
Thursday went back to the upper bay area. Found several more schools of
active Stripers in the morning. Caught 50 or so between 3 boats. Anchovy and
spoons both had mixed success. After going in around noon to fillet, one
boat headed up to Moki, one to Halls and we went to try out the other
canyons. We caught a few LMB and 1 SMB.
Jason |
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Friday, in the same areas of the bay with the same schools showing up, the
fishing was much slower. In the afternoon we decided to try the very top of
Bullfrog Bay. Where it is less than 20' deep. Casting rattletraps we picked
up a nice Walleye, several LMB and a few more Stripers. Great weather.
Brad Cutler report: Before
we met up we had six or seven fish from Halls. Three were caught trolling a
Norman DD22 one hundred and fifty feet behind
the boat. A couple on anchovies and one or two
on spoons. We lost a few more trolling. We trolled less than an hour.
Rex's boat had a few fish on anchovies.
Saturday morning we fished bullfrog until 10 am. We caught ten fish
all on anchovies in 57 to 62 feet of water.
Dan lost a couple on spoons.
I had a great time. We need to do it again soon.
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January 5, 2010 - Kip Bennett and Shawn Johnson
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January 4, 2010 - Ron Colby - Warm Creek
Stripers |
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Ron went to Warm Creek and harassed the stripers again.
This time he caught 3 over 5 pounds , The largest was 5.75 pounds.
Some 3 pounders were caught along with more 2 pound fish.
Spoons fished in pods of fish seen on the graph is the recommended
method. |
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The key to catching fish is to get out early. They
seem to bite in the morning until 10 AM. Once they shut down it is very
difficult to get a bite until about 2 PM in the afternoon. |
December 22, 2009 - Loren Unsworth & Mikey Keller - Price, Utah -
Bullfrog stripers |
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My brother and I headed out late on Friday and started
fishing on the slips.
We had about two bites and heard that bassman, rimrock, kbass, and goldcup
were doing well. We went over to see what they were doing, and they took us
under their wing and showed us the ropes.
Fishing was so fun, we drove back to price that night, picked up our dad,
and came back Saturday night to fish with their crew again.
Loren and Mikey
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We didn't knock them dead, but its the most I have ever
caught on the docks. The three of us landed 20 and I don't know how many
they ended with.
Big thanks to you fellas, I would love to go with you any time you headed
down.
Oh yeah, the weather was great. |
December 22, 2009 - Gold Cup - Bullfrog stripers
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December 6, 2009 - Marty Peterson - Bullfrog |
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Fished Upper Bullfrog Bay Friday and Saturday. Graphed many
schools of fish. Found one school that had fish we could catch. We had
lowered spoons to many before finally having a bite. Then both spoons and
anchovies worked. Just after noon on Friday. Produced ten. Heaviest just
over 3 Lbs. All fat.
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Nightfishing was slow. A striper each and a walleye. On
anchovy. Plus several small catfish. Cold. Iced up our fishing poles.
Saturday started out cool and windy. Spooned up nothing but a catfish. But
had lost all Wallylures to snags. Will have to order more. Wind would blow
us into submerged stuff. Tried for crappie and smb. No bites there either.
Still, kind of fun.
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December 2, 2009 - Wayne Gustaveson - Warm Creek Stripers |
We did another round of battle with Warm Creek stripers
today. You can see my November 24 report below. I also went out on
Thanksgiving Day but there is no report. On that day each son caught one and
I got none. We caught fish at 9:15 - 9:30 AM. (More about that later)
We again went to mouth of Crosby - 45 feet of water but marked no
fish. Then we ventured out to 60 feet with the same results. Well, if they
are not shallow and not at normal winter depth (60 feet) they must be
deeper.
Sure enough as the graph marked 80 feet we saw a school on the bottom.
Spoons were dropped and fish were caught. There was a twist however. These
fish were "cold" and hugging bottom. The trick was to drop the spoon on the
bottom, lift it up 6 inches and then just hold it there. A striper would
then pick at it a bit and we could set the hook to catch the fish. Crazy
spooning - but very similar to an experience we had at Lone Rock a year ago
in December. Dead sticking spoons - interesting. Striper size ranged from
1.5 pounds to 4.5 pounds.
We wondered if bait would work in these conditions? But not having bait that
will have to be answered another day (probably by someone else).
My thought is these fish would have been suckers for a 1-ounce marabou jig
or a plastic swim bait. So many options - so little time...
The common thread here is that fish seem to bite best about 9 AM... or
more correctly by the time the sun comes up, the boat is launched, we travel
to Warm Creek and finally graph a school of fish the time is 9:15 AM. That
first drop on a school is quite good but after that schools are hard to find
and harder to hook.
Next time I go out, launch time will be 7 AM (Brrrrr). After
a cold run the sun will come up and we will thaw. But I think the morning
bite starts at first light and lasts until 9:30 AM. I think we are missing
the best fishing times by waiting for it to warm up and calm down
before heading out. Next time I predict we will have 20 plus fish in
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November 24, 2009 - Wayne Gustaveson - Warm
Creek Stripers |
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Headed out fishing this morning at 8:30 with Warm Creek as
the destination. Last time there a few weeks ago stripers were 60 feet deep
on a drop off near the back of the canyon. We started looking there and
found nothing. So the recent reports we have received about Warm Creek
proved accurate.
Next we went shallower toward Crosby Canyon. At 9:15 a promising school
showed on the graph at a depth of 45 feet. Spoons went down and just
like clockwork stripers came up. Action was fast for about 20 minutes
as a dozen stripers came aboard. Fish were very nice with one almost 5
pounds.
Most of the fish were on bottom and responded to spoons hopping on the
bottom but when a fish was hooked, a little speed reeling got some of the
onlookers involved in the action. |
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When that school played out we searched further into Crosby.
I saw lots of suspended fish so we tried trolling. The deep divers
swam well but no fish responded. (We later found at the cleaning
station that smaller stripers were eating plankton so they were likely the
suspended targets). We went shallower and looked for shad in the trees but
found none. Topwater and flukes did not work in the shallows. So
we headed back to the first spot where we had left our marker. About 300
yards before we reached the marker a huge school of bait appeared. We
dropped the spoons and yearling stripers responded. It may be that the
gigantic bait ball was actually 14 inch stripers. Regardless, we welcomed
them aboard. When we got through with that action a dozen fish were
laying on the deck. We put them in the cooler and headed home with 28
stripers. |
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Wallylures, Sebile Fast Cast spoons, and a homemade slab
spoon all worked about the same. When fish were on the graph but not
hitting my spoon I quickly snapped a new one on just to give them a
different look. That often worked with one more hookup. Spoons worked
well when over an active school. Trolling and casting were not
effective probably because the fish were at 45 feet. It looks to be
a good winter for spooning. I expect this to last up until at least
Christmas.
Weather was cold and calm today.
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