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Lake Powell Trip Report
February 9, 2008
It was chilly on the lake today, but the skies were beautiful and the water clear and calm. We found a great spot and cast out to retrieve 25 stripers in 3 hours! We drank hot cocoa and coffee to keep warm, but the cold forced us in by early afternoon.
My Lake Powell Client Fishing Trips.
Lake Powell Report
February 24, 2008
February 24, 2008
My best bud and former Lees Ferry guide Chad Bayles and I took our 2 daughters down to the dam for about 2 hours today.
We tied up just shy of noon and sent 4 'chovies cut in quarters down to get the chumming started.
On the very first drop, hook up! The girls landed 6 stripers in 2 hours and missed several more.
All fish came between 15 and 40 feet. The method was to cast toward the dam about 20-40 feet out and let the rig pendulum back to vertical, let soak for about 5 minutes and repeat.
Half the fish took on the fall. Most fish came shortly after we chummed 2 'chovies worth of pieces.
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Lailah Campbell and Brenna Bayles with their day's haul.
Kevin Campbell and Brenna hooked up.
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Lailah Campbell fights a striper hooked on the first drop of the day while Brenna's dad Chad Bayles cheers her on.
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Roosevelt Lake Trip Report
March 29-30, 2008
I spent the weekend of March 29th & 30th at Roosevelt Lake east of Phoenix, AZ. My buddy Rich from Tucson and I landed 49 fish for the 2 days. All but 2 or 3 were caught either on spinnerbaits or Carolina rigged plastic lizards. The lake is less than 2 feet from full and is nothing less than a flooded mesquite forrest. Lake Powell is due to rise about 45 feet and will inundate lots of brush providing much needed cover for baitfish, young fish and ambush sites for gamefish.
Flooded mesquite and tamarisk trees in Pinto Creek.
Typical frisky largemouth on the carolina rig.
Lake Powell Report
April 8, 2008
April 8, 2008
I went out on Lake Powell for 6 hours on 4/6 with my daughter, Lailah. We fished exclusively in Navajo Canyon. We caught about 15 fish on 4" white Storm Swim Shad swim baits. 7 stripers, 6 largemouth and one smallmouth. The weather was just perfect with only the occasional breeze swirling through. Water temp peaked at 62. Dirty water and shad present were the keys.
1.5 pound largemouth falls for the swim bait.
This decent striper thumped the lure hard.
Lake Powell Report
April 12, 2008
Clients John and Rob from Tucson fished with me on the 10th and 11th. The wind blew 20 mph all day on the 10 but we easily caught stripers while tied up at the dam. Most fish were in pretty good shape and we filleted 26. Another 15 or so were a little too skinny to keep.
On the 11th, we fished back in Navajo and Antelope Canyons for a mixed bag of species. Hoping for largemouth, smallmouth, crappie and stripers, we fished a variety of lures and caught smallish bass and stripers, but no crappie. Then it was back to the dam for the last 2 hours of the day and fished anchovies a short distance off the barrier line. The stripers were there and willing judging by all the other boats tied up or drifting with bent rods. John and Rob caught 10 more fish to cap off a much calmer and warmer day than the first.
One of many double hook-ups
26 stripers ready for the electric knife
Lake Powell Report
April 20, 2008
April 20, 2008
Cameron and his wife Angela from Denver caught 30+ fish on a half day trip to the dam area. The fish were caught on weightless anchovy rigs and on 1/4oz leadheads with 4" grub w/ a piece of 'chovy added. I've been using 8# flourocarbon leader for stealth. Casting out and letting the bait pendulum back to the boat was the best method by far. The fish were all over depth wise. I saw fish as shallow as 10' and as deep as 50 and everywhere in between on the finder at the same time. We didn't have to chum heavily to keep them around. All the fish were healthy enough to keep. Some of the smaller ones were returned for another day. Most filets were nice and firm with translucent meat. Fish taco time!!
Lake Powell Report
April 26-27, 2008
Mike and his dad fished 2 half days with me this weekend. We targeted largemouth and smallmouth bass with a little success. On Saturday, we fished the back of Gunsight hoping to find the fish moving up to spawn and caught a few on tubes and Hula grubs. Sunday we fished stripers in the morning in Navajo canyon,, but after 40 minutes waiting for the chum to activate the fish, it was clear they weren't showing up and we went back to bass fishing at the back of the canyon and found a few fish there. Overall it was a slow couple of days. Can't beat 'em up every time.
Lake Powell Report
April 27-28, 2008
April 27-28, 2008
I had 2 half day evening trips with employees and the owner of Pro Security Consultants from Albuquerque. I took Justin and Kevin out to the 3 mile area of the main channel and proceeded to load the boat. Kev and Justin along with young Michael fished the same area with another local guide Gene earlier in the day and had the same non-stop action. Between the morning and afternoon sessions, I figure the guys landed about 120 stripers. The largest went about 4 pounds in my boat. 'Chovies in 10 to 40 feet. Grubs w/ 'chovie, 1/8 oz. Carolina rigs and weightless rigs.
Day 2 was windy. We returned to the 3 mile area with 5 guys and slammed the stripers again. We decided to ease our discomfort from the waves from wind, tour boats and other boats returning to Wahweap and go tie up to the dam. I've been hearing slow reports from the dam lately so this was a gamble. It turned out to be OK. The action was there, just not as hot as its been. I didn't keep count, but I'd guess they caught about 30+. One note, when I launched at Stateline at 1:20pm the breeze was just starting and the water temp was 60.5, the wind had cooled it down to 57.5 at 5pm.
The tube jig takes a largemouth.
Kevin and Justin doubled up again.
Michael with a quality striper.
Lake Powell Report
May 3, 2008
Al and his friend Tom from Sun City, AZ hired me for a full day. We striper fished the 3 mile area for several hours with good success. Many of the strikes were quite light and the fish were not as aggressive as 4/27 & 28. After getting rocked from boat wakes for a while, we tried inside of Antelope and nada, zippo. After lunch we ran up into Warm Creek looking for largemouth in the shallow water. After trying both jigs, crankbaits, swim baits and spinnerbaits, we left with only one striper on the swim bait. Back to three mile and more stripers to finish off the day. Fun guys to fish with, they'll be back this fall.
Tom lands the first fish of the day.
