Fished Pineview yesterday with a fellow member of BFT. Launched as early as we could almost see. Crappie (for sturgeon bait and some for eating) were the target fish. We didn't have a stellar day, but we caught plenty of crappie and around a dozen smallmouth bass, three mudcats and one bluegill. The size of the crappie was encouraging.
It was nice to get out again with Hue and except for early and mid-afternoon wind it was a pleasant day.
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Kentofnsl
What part of the lake where you on when you started to land bass?
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In the dam end.
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What depth were the crappie at? Were they on the bottom or suspended? [fishon]
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They were on the bottom in about 35 to 40'.
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Thanks for the report, glad you had an enjoyable trip! I hope to make it up there someday, but my car and my boat only seem to know the way to Utah Lake[
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[#0000FF]Any "close encounters of the toothy kind"?
Last year the tiger muskies were thick around the crappie hangouts...helping themselves to the smaller fish hooked by anglers.
Guess I better point my float tube in that direction one of these days.
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Not this trip, but last year we hooked three tigers on the same trip (while fishing for crappie). Two grabbed a crappie after it was hooked and the third one bit the crappie jig (that one got landed the other two eventually let go).
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From today's DWR report:
"Another angler caught almost a dozen smallmouth bass on the dam end of the reservoir,..."
Wonder who that was?[
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We ended up keeping 13 crappie, 1 injured smallie, and 1 bluegill. I kept 5 crappie and the bluegill for our sturgeon trip.
Hue
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Dang it, we should have kept fishing until we caught one more crappie.[
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Way to go Kent!
Good to read you reports.
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