Made the annual family trip down to Powell. It's usually a non-fishing week but I always take my fly rod with me....just in case.
We pull into a bay around 6-6:30 and I couldn't believe my eyes. There were thousands of shad dancing on the rocks and strippers everywhere running after them. We sat and watched for about 20 min until I couldn't take it anymore. A quick fast trip back to the houseboat and I was armed and dangerous.
When we got back the boiling was still going on. For the next 3 hours the whole bay the size of a football field was on fire. I'm not sure on the size and weight of any of the fish but I fought more than I cared to count. I even hooked a large mouth, what a bonus.
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Thanks for the great report, that must have been fun with that much action, sure is lucky you took your rod. I hope someday when we get out of this drought, Willard gets back to the days when we could catch fish during a boil. Now days, if the wipers start boiling we can't even get on the lake to fish them in a boat. It is really great to hear someone getting into some boils even if it isn't at Willard, thanks again for reminding me what it is like. WH2
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[#0000bf]Man icthys: Shore wish you could have posted a pitcher of that crazy phenomenon: I would have liked to see that! [/#0000bf]
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I wish I had a pic of the boils also, especially when all the shad were hoping up the rocks and the stripers chasing them up the rocks.
I've got a pic of one of the bigger strippers I caught, I'll post tomorrow.
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icthys,
Which bay were you at?
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Just curious as to when you guys have seen wiper Boils at Willard?
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Here's a pic of a nice striper, I threw in the large mouth also.
Old Coot- I was up in the Hansen Creek/Forgotton Canyon area.
Ok, I'm having trouble posting the pics. I'm browsing for the image and then uploading it, what's the deal?
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the pic might be to big or the wrong format for the page.. check and make sure it in jpeg and it the right size..
dude on fish?
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nice stripper but your largemouth is actually a smallmouth
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Can't win them all, at least I got the mouth right!
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Jess, nice looking fish. Much larger than those sturgeon that we didn't catch!
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Jess,
Those are some freakin Nasties.. Good to see that you got into'em down there...
Did you have your classic 2 Wt?
Elk AKA iceman
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Oh no no no, no 2 wt for those. I don't think I'd dare go smaller than the 5 wt I was using.
BTW, you've got a PM over at FW.
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man your lucky and nice striper and a good smallmouth bass i wish i could have been there. even to just see the boiling i must have been a site for all eyes
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Quoting icthys " the shad were dancing and the strippers were chasing them" So, did you bring some dollar bills to stuff in their underwear? Is that what you "armed" yourself with? Why were the strippers chasing shad and not men? I'm a bit
here.
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Ahahahahahahaha
Was that you they hauled out of the Golden Fleece last week "armed" with Monopoly money?
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