04-03-2007, 09:04 PM
Hey all,
Just back from Powell! Here is the "story" and some pics as sent out by me to my email buddies. If you don't want to read the story, the bottom line was 59 Stripers in about 7 hours! With about that many more getting away. We used Orange Mister Twister Meenies on a 1/4 ounce jighead with a chunk of Anchovy.
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"We went down to St. George over the weekend to visit Andrea and Jared and the grandkids...and to get in a couple of Springtime fishing trips!
Friday morning Jared and I went to a couple of local lakes; Sand Hollow and Quail Creek and caught 6 Rainbow trout (at Quail Creek), with the first 2 being a double on Jareds 2 poles at the same time! We got skunked at Sand Hollow, and didn't catch any fish at Quail Creek until a local told us how to catch them. (Power bait from an anchored boat...hey, whatever works!) He also told us to forget about bass for a few more days as the water is still too cold. After that we didn't feel so bad about not catching any there.
Saturday morning we drove the 3 hours over to Page Arizona to meet up with Dick Campbell and his boys to take part in the annual Striper run. There was a little confusion in getting there as I thought the 3 hour trip would only take 2 hours. So at 7:00 a.m. I called Dick to tell him we were running late. As it turns out, it was only 6:00 in Arizona, so it ended up being a 1 hour early wake up call to the Campbells.
After getting our licenses at the Walmart in Page, we met up with Dick and the boys at their motel in Page and readied the boat and headed over to Wahweap. Weather was sunny, warm and no wind! water temp almost 60 degrees, air temp was in the 50's to start out with, but ended up in the 70's later in the day. We launched at Wahweap marina and headed towards the dam where the Striper action always is this time of the year. The dam is only about a 20 minute boat ride from the marina, but we made it in about 10 minutes. I think the throttle is broken on Dicks boat as it was either idling or full throttle all the time. No such thing as 1/2 throttle on his boat! About 200 or 300 yards this side of the dam, there is a floating barrier made up of floating aluminum pontoons jointed with sections of chain that spans the canyon, to prevent boats from going right up to the dam. We tied up amongst a bunch of other boats right to the aluminum floats just north of the middle of the channel.
The 3 boys (my son in law Jared, and Dicks 2 boys, Richard and Robert) decided to fish from the bow, while Dick and I stayed in the back of the boat. Dick immediately started catching fish, and then the smack talk started! It ended up being very competitive with all of us staying pretty even throughout the day. We caught a lot of fish and even more got away from us...sometimes just at the net! During the competition, the deal was that if someone had a fish on, the guy next to them would grab the net and help land it. Well, occasionally, the person netting the others fish would "accidentally" not net it very good and it would get away. It didn't take long to realize of course that what comes around goes around, so that ended up not being that much of an issue. We had 5 fisherman on board, and some of us were using 2 poles each! With all those poles out, we had a lot of action sequences where there were multiple fish on at the same time. There was only one net on board, and it got very hectic every time a school of fish swam through! And then we would have a few minutes to put fish on stringers, clean up and re rig in anticipation of the next school of fish. At around 5:00 p.m. we finally put away the poles and headed back in. We ended up with Dick catching 12 Stripers, Richard caught 11, Robert caught 8, Jared caught 14 and I caught 14 for a total of 59 fish! And at 3 or 4 lbs. each, we had over 200 lbs. of fish! Dick had brought along a big plastic "toy box", that we transported the fish in back to the cleaning station where we spent the next 2 hours filleting fish.
This is the 2nd year in a row that we have done this on the same weekend and have established it as an annual tradition.
See attached pics."
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Just back from Powell! Here is the "story" and some pics as sent out by me to my email buddies. If you don't want to read the story, the bottom line was 59 Stripers in about 7 hours! With about that many more getting away. We used Orange Mister Twister Meenies on a 1/4 ounce jighead with a chunk of Anchovy.
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"We went down to St. George over the weekend to visit Andrea and Jared and the grandkids...and to get in a couple of Springtime fishing trips!
Friday morning Jared and I went to a couple of local lakes; Sand Hollow and Quail Creek and caught 6 Rainbow trout (at Quail Creek), with the first 2 being a double on Jareds 2 poles at the same time! We got skunked at Sand Hollow, and didn't catch any fish at Quail Creek until a local told us how to catch them. (Power bait from an anchored boat...hey, whatever works!) He also told us to forget about bass for a few more days as the water is still too cold. After that we didn't feel so bad about not catching any there.
Saturday morning we drove the 3 hours over to Page Arizona to meet up with Dick Campbell and his boys to take part in the annual Striper run. There was a little confusion in getting there as I thought the 3 hour trip would only take 2 hours. So at 7:00 a.m. I called Dick to tell him we were running late. As it turns out, it was only 6:00 in Arizona, so it ended up being a 1 hour early wake up call to the Campbells.
After getting our licenses at the Walmart in Page, we met up with Dick and the boys at their motel in Page and readied the boat and headed over to Wahweap. Weather was sunny, warm and no wind! water temp almost 60 degrees, air temp was in the 50's to start out with, but ended up in the 70's later in the day. We launched at Wahweap marina and headed towards the dam where the Striper action always is this time of the year. The dam is only about a 20 minute boat ride from the marina, but we made it in about 10 minutes. I think the throttle is broken on Dicks boat as it was either idling or full throttle all the time. No such thing as 1/2 throttle on his boat! About 200 or 300 yards this side of the dam, there is a floating barrier made up of floating aluminum pontoons jointed with sections of chain that spans the canyon, to prevent boats from going right up to the dam. We tied up amongst a bunch of other boats right to the aluminum floats just north of the middle of the channel.
The 3 boys (my son in law Jared, and Dicks 2 boys, Richard and Robert) decided to fish from the bow, while Dick and I stayed in the back of the boat. Dick immediately started catching fish, and then the smack talk started! It ended up being very competitive with all of us staying pretty even throughout the day. We caught a lot of fish and even more got away from us...sometimes just at the net! During the competition, the deal was that if someone had a fish on, the guy next to them would grab the net and help land it. Well, occasionally, the person netting the others fish would "accidentally" not net it very good and it would get away. It didn't take long to realize of course that what comes around goes around, so that ended up not being that much of an issue. We had 5 fisherman on board, and some of us were using 2 poles each! With all those poles out, we had a lot of action sequences where there were multiple fish on at the same time. There was only one net on board, and it got very hectic every time a school of fish swam through! And then we would have a few minutes to put fish on stringers, clean up and re rig in anticipation of the next school of fish. At around 5:00 p.m. we finally put away the poles and headed back in. We ended up with Dick catching 12 Stripers, Richard caught 11, Robert caught 8, Jared caught 14 and I caught 14 for a total of 59 fish! And at 3 or 4 lbs. each, we had over 200 lbs. of fish! Dick had brought along a big plastic "toy box", that we transported the fish in back to the cleaning station where we spent the next 2 hours filleting fish.
This is the 2nd year in a row that we have done this on the same weekend and have established it as an annual tradition.
See attached pics."
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