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[cool][font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][#0000ff]TubeBabe and I decided to worship at the Church of the 7'th Day Angler on Sunday. Arrived at the Willard North Chapel before 7 AM and conducted opening services by 7:30. The air was 42 degrees and the water 57. It stirred the soul.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]And verily, we did cast our lines upon the waters. As we sought out the congregation we were rewarded with several "converts". Sister TubeBabe managed only 4 kitty converts. However, I prevailed over the will of 3 wipers (17" and 2 identical 19.5"). I also converted another six of the whiskery sect, one of which fell to heavy metal (spoon). [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]All three of my wipers were taken by bottom bouncing with a 2" white tube and all but the one cat were taken on chub minnows.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Services were over at 1 PM. As we were preparing to leave, Rev. (ranger) J. Steele came by to fellowship with us. He inspected my catch and pronounced it "righteous".[/#0000ff]
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Looks like you had a great time!!!

I hope you have heard the salvation message and recieved the free gift that He has offered cause He loves you much and loves to be with you on those times of partaking in His Word and His bounty.
It is awsome to share His bonty with others cause He will always provide. He might even on those slow days, say cast your line on the otherside of the boat and your basket will be full to overflowing!

He is our LORD!
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[cool][#0000ff]Good words to live by, my brother. However, the advice to fish on the other side of the boat was given in a time before those fishermen had sonar...or a lot of the other fishing refinements we take for granted today. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One has to wonder how the Great Fisherman would impress his followers today? Perhaps advising the use of fish attractant...or Powerbait? Maybe suggesting dropshot rigging or a crawler harness?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Nevertheless, some messages remain timeless. True?[/#0000ff]
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I think He would still desire us to be fishers of men and make sure all have been invited to sit at that great banquet table at the wedding feast, making sure that the "bride" is dressed as they should be.

I sre do love to read your posts. I do that while I am on break at work. I can, for those 25 min, be out on the water feeling the tug on the end of my line and taking in the wonderfull surroundings with your pictures! Thanks!
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[cool][#0000ff]It's good to have you in the fambly and I'm glad that our posts help make your workday more bearable. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We do have some photo-minded posters on the board. That always makes the reports more visual and more enjoyable.[/#0000ff]
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Looks like a great day. Interesting to see the wipers still biting in your neck of the woods. Most of the Wiper guys in this part of the country (Nebraska) have hung it up and switched to the fowl of the air.
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[cool][#0000ff]Hey Dusty, welcome aboard. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Wipers are definitely at their best in warmer waters. Here in Utah they don't really get active until about May and are definitely on the downside here, since mid September. When the water gets over 70 here, we have lots of "boils" as the wipers chase shad up against the dikes and even out in the open lake. When they are in a feeding frenzy you can catch them on about everything you put in front of them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]What a lot of anglers don't realize, or don't care about (during hunting season) is that wipers can be caught all year...just like crappies, catfish, bass, etc. You just have to know where to look for them and how to fish them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Up until mid September this year, we were catching them on large crankbaits and plastics, fished on or near the top. Now that the water has cooled, the shad have retreated out into the deeper parts of the lake and the wipers follow. The guys that only know how to troll for them get discouraged and quit.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The last couple of weeks I have still been catching wipers, from my tube, by downsizing my lures and fishing just off the bottom. It is almost like fishing for crappies, only when you hook one you can definitely tell the difference.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Our wipers only get to a little over 5 pounds in Willard Bay. You have some waters in your state that produce some real bigguns. We are jealous.[/#0000ff]
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"Our wipers only get to a little over 5 pounds in Willard Bay. You have some waters in your state that produce some real bigguns. We are jealous. "

Well we are jealous that you have trout that live year round Lucky for me -- Oct. is trout stocking month and we have to catch them all before they die in the spring -- so I am using you for my benchmark (of being able to float until the ice won't let you) and having a blast....Lake by lake right behind the stocking truck - it does feel a bit like cheating, but when life gives you lemons.....I do miss Starvation though -- and those Tiger Trout that I have seen from your neck of the woods look really cool - I will have to come back and visit just to try and catch a few of those

As far as wipers go: I have a couple of fellow anglers who love to get into the big ones and their advice is almost word for word what you said, except for most people around here are so anxious with the hunting season starting that they all have put their poles away (more fish for me to catch)and don't seem to want to make the effort to work harder for them.
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[cool][#0000ff]Yep, it seems like wherever a fisherman plunks down there's a tradeoff. It's downright impossible to find someplace that has it all.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That being said, I have fished all over the country and I have told a lot of people that for all around multi-species fishing it is hard to beat Utah. Utah is a "desert state", but between the few rivers and lakes it has there is some great fishing for probably more species than almost any other states except Florida, California and maybe Texas.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you like trout, Utah a whole lot of species, subspecies and hybrids...like the tigers. If you like "warm water" species, there is not much that Utah does NOT have. We don't have the standard species of muskie, but we do have tiger muskies...and a couple of good northern pike waters.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Willard Bay has been our only wiper habitat until last year. DWR planted wipers in Newcastle Reservoir, in the south central part of the state, to help control an exploding population of illegally planted golden shiners. The resident trout and smallmouth just couldn't keep up with the shiners so DWR called in some help. The good thing about the wipers is that you can control them by selective planting and monitored harvest. They are still small in Newcastle but should be getting good catchable size by next year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Let us know if you get back this way and we can guide you to a few tigers...or other species of your choice. And, you won't have to wait until October to follow a hatchery truck neither. It's all good.[/#0000ff]
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You know, I used to drive past Willard Bay twice a month and never could figure out what the attraction was. I thought it must be water skiers, looks like that was wrong. I do have a question - is the water salty or is there enough fresh water coming in to prevent that? Reading here and lurking on the Utah forum, I'm starting to think I may schedule a couple of trips down there next year.

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[cool][#0000ff]Unlike Farmington Bay, a brackish marsh off the great Salt Lake, Willard Bay is entirely fresh water. It is formed by trapping the water from the Weber and Ogden Rivers inside a big manmade dike. Before the lake was filled, they used bulldozers to scoop out the bottom and make a big dirt dike. Then they covered that with big rocks, blasted from the nearby mountains.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It has a maximum depth of about 25 feet during high water and there are quite a few species of freshwater fish for the taking. These include the wipers, walleyes, channel catfish, largemouth and smallmouth bass, crappies, bluegill and yellow perch. The main forage species is the gizzard shad.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It is great fishing all year, including through the ice during those winters when it freezes enough to be safe.[/#0000ff]
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5:01 AM???? I hope you're going fishing and not just losing sleep!

Thanks for the info, looks like that could be a fun trip.

Red Dwarf
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[cool][#0000ff]I get up about 4:30...and wake up at noon.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Never need an alarm clock for early morning trips.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff][size 1]alarm clock[black].... none? Must have a "fish clock"?[cool][/black][/size][/#0000ff]
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[cool][#0000ff]I am one of those rare individuals who seems to have a built in clock/timer. I wear a watch and am an inveterate clock watcher, but if I force myself to guess the time before looking I am usually within a few minutes. That works also if I wake up in the middle of the night. I can usually guess very closely what time it is before looking at the clock.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Whenever I set the alarm clock (just in case) I almost always wake up a few minutes before the alarm is supposed to go off. And, I gotta admit, when I am excited about going fishing, I may wake up even sooner. Yes, I still get excited about going fishing. If I ever quit getting excited I will jump off my tackle box and end it all.[/#0000ff]
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