Fishing Forum

TubeDude and TubeBabe will be fishing Jordanelle on Saturday August 14th from my boat. If anyone is interested in fishing with them we will be meeting at 5:00 AM, in the parking lot behind Red Lobster Restaurant. To get to Red Lobster Restaurant in SLC head east on I-80 and take the 1300 East exit, turn left (north) at the stop light and then turn left (west) again at the first stop light on 1300 East. Meet behind Red Lobster Restaurant, in the Red Lobster and Shopko parking lot close to Red Lobster, which is on the east side of the parking lot. Because they will be fishing from a boat, in order to join in the activity you will have to either have a boat, or buddy up with someone who has one. We will be launching from Hailstone. Who knows where we might end up fishing, but undoubtedly we will do some exploring of likely places for them to fish from their tubes on another trip. With that in mind, we will certainly end up at least boating the Rockcliff arm. If you see an 18' dark blue and white Starcraft boat, with a dark blue 85 Force outboard on the back be sure to say hi.
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Thanks for the info. I sure wish I could go, but we have planned a family camping trip for that weekend. Have fun and get a few for me.
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Kent can you share your technique for towing two tubes at once behind your boat?

I know there has to be a few secrets you can let us in on....

How does speed effect the casting ability of the tubers?
How can the boat operator use the tubers to spook the fish his direction?
Can tubers be used as bait for jet skiers?


Give us the full report Kent - you are the pro....
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Lundmand, I'll be sure to give a full report.
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[url "javascript: addTag('cool')"][cool][/url][#0000ff]Don't be givin' Uncle Kent any foolish ideas. I haven't got him trained yet. First trip is going to be strictly boating, but if I can implant the control chip and fine tune the remote I should be able to get him to tow me wherever I don't wanna paddle.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have some new fins on order that are supposed to work like water skis under the right speed. If Kent can get his boat up on plane, and I can maneuver the fins just right, I might even try some wake jumpin'.[/#0000ff]
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Suddenly I see the need here for a 5 point racing harness, and, a full roll cage!!
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[url "http://javascript:%20addTag('cool')/"][cool][/url][#0000ff]Thanks for a fun trip, Kent. Our first time fishing Jordanelle. It was still being filled when we moved to Arizona.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Also a first...TubeBabe's first smallmouth. Actually, she got several today, and probably got more than either Kent or me. That's cool. She loved it, and also loved the return bout with her old playmates, the perchskis. No bigguns, but we kept enough for several bags of bait.[/#0000ff]

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It is truly unbelievable (well almost - because I grew up fishing Deer Creek) the number of perch in Jordanelle. Everywhere we tried we immediately started catching perch. In the one bay that we anchored up and fished two different times, at one point Pat made the statement that he had caught 10 perch in ten casts (all in about five minutes) I told him that he couldn't count them as casts because he wasn't even using his reel, just dropping his line off the boat about three feet, in approximately 10 feet of water. We could let our line down a couple feet and see a school of perch trying to grab our lure. No chubs this trip which was a bit unusual.
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Sure sounds like it was a great trip. Glad you guys could get into some fish. Do you plan on cooking up any of the little perch?
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[url "javascript: addTag('cool')"][cool][/url][#0000ff]Didn't keep any for the kitchen this trip. Between the three of us we caught probably a couple of hundred, but none of them were over about 9 inches. I am pretty good with the electric fillet knife and have kept and eaten lotsa small ones in the past, but we only kept a few to cut up for bait.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]My past experience has been that perch tend to school by size. The bigger ones are generally deeper and less gullible. We were anchored shallow and catching the dumb youngsters. I plan to do some serious tubing up there, and to hunt out the wily 12 inch plus fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The same was true for the smallies. You can catch a few little guys even if you do not have precise boat control (no electric motor) and if you make lots of noise (we did). The larger fish tend to either be solitary or to form small groups in areas of good cover and plentiful food. Most serious bassers look for areas where there is shallow feeding opportunity, with deep water close by. Bigguns hang out in the shallows only during transition periods when the waters are cool and the shallows offer a couple degrees more warmth.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I did have a brief moment of excitement yesterday, when a big smallmouth chased a small hooked perch to the top. I got to see it as it turned and bolted back into the depths, but it would not whack anything large that I sent down for approval.[/#0000ff]
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