05-25-2004, 02:53 AM
Well, spent a week at Powell, right during the big B.A.S.S. tournament out of Bullfrog. I thought we were doing pretty lousy until I heard how the Pro's were doing. Their performance was a just a little better grade of lousy than ours. The big winner brought in 14 of a possible 15 fish over three days that average just under 2 lbs each!! Knowing that, I feel pretty good with my catch out of a 14' 30HP aluminum boat. The average bass (no stripers) we kept were 1.5-2.0 lbs each.
Weather was pretty much windy (15-25 mph) the whole time which made us nervous when we made 45 minute daily trips to either Cedar, Forgotton, Knowles or Iceberg canyons.
Our best luck for large & smallmouth bass was the outer half of the canyons along the not-so-steep rocky shoreline using 4" crawdad brown & chartruse plastics. Got a few on crankbaits. We did quite well along the more shallow rocky shoreline adjacent to deep water for Walleyes. They really liked the 15'-20'clear water of the main channel along underwater ledges & points. We caught more walleyes than bass if you exclude the mini-smallmounth that we could't keep off the hook. All were in the 2-3 lb range. Even caught three nice channel catfish and a few fiesty bluegill on lures. All in all it was tough fishing with the wind and all. We caught five species, but no stripers or crappies. Only one person we talked to saw any striper boils and they were in the back of Hansens Canyon, clear in the very back of the bay.
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Weather was pretty much windy (15-25 mph) the whole time which made us nervous when we made 45 minute daily trips to either Cedar, Forgotton, Knowles or Iceberg canyons.
Our best luck for large & smallmouth bass was the outer half of the canyons along the not-so-steep rocky shoreline using 4" crawdad brown & chartruse plastics. Got a few on crankbaits. We did quite well along the more shallow rocky shoreline adjacent to deep water for Walleyes. They really liked the 15'-20'clear water of the main channel along underwater ledges & points. We caught more walleyes than bass if you exclude the mini-smallmounth that we could't keep off the hook. All were in the 2-3 lb range. Even caught three nice channel catfish and a few fiesty bluegill on lures. All in all it was tough fishing with the wind and all. We caught five species, but no stripers or crappies. Only one person we talked to saw any striper boils and they were in the back of Hansens Canyon, clear in the very back of the bay.
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