05-06-2019, 11:55 PM
Wife and I had stayed at the Days Inn at exit 260, Springville, after the LB Flotilla festivities. Was a kinda of short vacation for us. So after a late easy breakfast at the IHOP, we headed to American Fork boat harbor. The morning was starting out beautiful, even a bit more clear and warmer than Saturday.
Got on the water out of AF, turned west and went straight for the river inlet. Of course, a beautiful day, the Whities coming on to spawn. The "waders" were out in force, and a few other boats as well.
But everyone was playing nice, and everyone was catching Whities on almost every cast. Except us............[:/]
Well after getting a better idea of what was being used, we put our bait poles away and started working a medium-light rod with a small 1/8 oz. jig head, with various plastics. Some just old grubs I have had in the box for years, some from a mixed collection of Gulp left overs in a container of Gulp recharge scent. Seems we did the best on curly tailed yellow and green, or small white skirted tube jigs, even caught one on a Cabelas Purple and silver Hoochie Koochie [cool].
Somewhere along 2 - 2:30 PM noticed a huge black cloud coming over the mountains in the south-west, then some lightening, and some thunder. She got a couple photos of the cloud moving in, had no idea that the 2 young women on paddle boards were in them. [cool]
"Hey babe, time to get off the water and out of this electrically conductive metal boat" So i pull my line in, start getting ready to start the motor, and she makes one more cast. And of course, she couldn't just leave it at the fact that we were tied 10 fish each, she had to bring in the last one to make it 11 to 10 her favor.
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But I guess for the total weekend we tied up me 1 Catfish, 10 Whities, her 11 Whities..............[
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Got the boat out, all covered and road ready, and about 30 miles north up the road, then got hit with just a few minutes of rain. Time we got back to the Ogden area, was sunny and 76 deg.
Was a great weekend.
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Got on the water out of AF, turned west and went straight for the river inlet. Of course, a beautiful day, the Whities coming on to spawn. The "waders" were out in force, and a few other boats as well.
But everyone was playing nice, and everyone was catching Whities on almost every cast. Except us............[:/]
Well after getting a better idea of what was being used, we put our bait poles away and started working a medium-light rod with a small 1/8 oz. jig head, with various plastics. Some just old grubs I have had in the box for years, some from a mixed collection of Gulp left overs in a container of Gulp recharge scent. Seems we did the best on curly tailed yellow and green, or small white skirted tube jigs, even caught one on a Cabelas Purple and silver Hoochie Koochie [cool].
Somewhere along 2 - 2:30 PM noticed a huge black cloud coming over the mountains in the south-west, then some lightening, and some thunder. She got a couple photos of the cloud moving in, had no idea that the 2 young women on paddle boards were in them. [cool]
"Hey babe, time to get off the water and out of this electrically conductive metal boat" So i pull my line in, start getting ready to start the motor, and she makes one more cast. And of course, she couldn't just leave it at the fact that we were tied 10 fish each, she had to bring in the last one to make it 11 to 10 her favor.
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]But I guess for the total weekend we tied up me 1 Catfish, 10 Whities, her 11 Whities..............[
]Got the boat out, all covered and road ready, and about 30 miles north up the road, then got hit with just a few minutes of rain. Time we got back to the Ogden area, was sunny and 76 deg.
Was a great weekend.
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