Fishing Forum

Hit the Rock Cliff area of Jordanelle Friday evening and again Saturday Morning.

To say the fishing was anything but slow would be a true misrepresentation of fishing there.
Having said that Trout fishing is fairly consistant. You wont be setting the place on fire, but you'll catch enough fish to keep you interested.

I was targetting perch and smallies. Fri. I hit the rock around 6:30 pm and fishied until dark. At that time I kicked back off the water. No perch no bass. 2 dinky bows was all I could manage. The wifey was happy with the catch. I on the other hand was a little dissapointed. Three plus hours of fishing one of my favorite holes and all I came up with where 2 tiny fish (largest not even 12 inches).

So back I go on Sat. bright and early (well for me anyway). I launch around 6:00 am and fish until 3:00 pm. Pretty much the same results as Friday evenings trip. Right off the bat I pick up 3 bows in the 1st 45 minutes. I'm thinking this is gonna be much better today. Not to be. I managed one 4 in. perch that I used for bait. Not another fish the rest of the day. I guess I shoulld have gone trout fishing. As I was kicking back in I tied on a fly that TD tied for me. Have never used these before at Jordanelle. Was dragging it behind (in front of) the tube and bam! Fish on. Not a monster by any measures around 14 in. I let her go and start kicking back to the ramp. As I'm passing through the floatilla of anchored boats Bam another lil trout. This is barely 10 in, that big ole long shank gold and black fly looked silly hangin out of it's mouth. Well folks that was it for 2 days of fishing. Sorry I only have one picture to share. The wife used the camera friday for one of her mystery shop adventures. She didn't bother to mention that the batteries were dead. So I packed a useless carmera all day. Now I'm really bumed the one picture I thought I had isn't on the camera. Guess it's time to buy her her own digital.
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Two words for you Road.....FULL MOON.
Don't know about you others, but it sure can make a big difference to me.
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I hear ya FG and was talking to the son-in-law about it as I was leaving. Told him to go night fishing. I was using this time more to destress than anything. One thing I forgot to mention in the post was the water temps. They started out at 56.8 in the morning and never got above 60 all day. Still a bit cool for the warm water stuff, but it is getting there.
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[cool][#0000bf]Thanks for conducting the "field work" so that I don't have to. I suspect that the cold water coming in will keep the fish activity down for at least a couple or three weeks yet. I have never done well at RC until after the runoff subsides and the water warms well over 60...especially for the perch and smallies. However, they have been catching those in the north end, where the flats warm up faster.[/#0000bf]
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[#0000bf]Let's get this week out of the way and then we can do some serious perchin' and bassin'. If nothing else, we can go to Pineview...or Starvation.[/#0000bf]
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I am in for the Jordanelle thing. I am free from work for the next three weeks with a trip to Heise for the weekend of the 15th.
Any time! TD, if we try during the weekday, the old man will be slaving away at work so I will have access to that extra H3, but no PVC on his boat yet.[]
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[cool][#0000ff]Wanna do Starvation next Friday? Or maybe Pineview would be better?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I should have my red ride by then.[/#0000ff]
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Sounds like a plan TD and thanks again for those new flies. Different from what I'm used too. But they catch fish what more can a fella ask for. I wasn't expecting any great day at RC but a bit better would have put a grin on my face. BTW there is lots of water in the lake again. Near capacity. All the old cover I fished in the past is back under water and holding fish .......... they just had lock jaw.
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Thank you for the report!!!!!

"BTW there is lots of water in the lake again. Near capacity."

Hooray! I just twisted my back doing a cartwheel in the computer room after reading that. Good fishing, and good spawning will hopefully be had this year. Is the upper Provo still at high runoff stage or has it subsided some?


As has been noted, RC bassin (for me at least) has started picking up the second week of June. It then really takes off for 2-3 weeks, then slows a bit into the "summer" pattern where one needs to know where to go to do well. The past 2 years, the quality perch usually begin to appear at RC en masse about July 1.

Let the summer fishing season begin! []
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That can be done. Stay in touch this week.
You are going to need the GIANT rubbermade lid for the new rides.[] not to mention the WHOLE yard stick[laugh]
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The upper Provo is running fast. High run off stage is well what ya get use to. I would say no it is not at a high run off. Not even a medium run off right now, just running fast.

Since I live right by the lake it usually treats me a little better a little earlier. The run off came late this year with our changing weather pattern. By late I mean it is about 2 weeks behind the normal. I wouldn't expect it to pick up for another 2/3 weeks. But I will be checking it out at least once a week from here out. Ate the last of my perch fillets this evening. Man do I like fish tacos! So the weather needs to warm and stay there for a bit. I need to re-supply the perch confirs.
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She is not kidding about that either![] I am still trying to decide what I want to do for an apron on my red rocket.

Majja
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If Rubbemaid doesn't have anything that big, you may want to consider the tailgate from the new Ford F150 pickup. It may almost be wide enough[cool]
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[cool][#0000ff]Check Home Depot. They have lots of ready made doors that might just about do it.[/#0000ff]
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Are you referring to the Garage doors???[laugh][laugh]
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I am still thinking about that Ford Tailgate. The one with the handle and the built in step....there has got to be a way to make that a good thing[laugh]
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