08-12-2008, 09:07 PM
[font "Arial"][size 2]Arrived Halls Crossing Friday afternoon Aug. 7, just in time for a doozy of a storm. After dark we tried fishing off the docks with a green glo light, but were unable to attract any shad or stripers so we called it quits after midnight.[/size][/font]
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[font "Arial"][size 2]Saturday morning was cool. We went as far as 117 looking for boils but finding none. Eventually we tried fishing shoreline structure with twister tails. We caught lots of smallmouth bass and big bluegill. Saw another boat at the cleaning station with a few stripers. Said they caught them in the same area we were in several hours after we left. Tried night fishing from the docks again but didn't even draw in any plankton.[/size][/font]
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[font "Arial"][size 2]Sunday morning we started early intending to head up lake. Spotted a boil across from Moqui Wall. Chased slurps for about four hours and caught about eight really nice stripers (16 to 19 inches). In the afternoon we headed up lake again, only to get trapped by a thunderstorm before we got very far. Pulled into the back of a canyon to wait it out. We were stuck for a couple of hours. We made use of the time to catch a dozen or so catfish--none very large. After the weather cleared we again found small boils across from Moqui and chased them until dark.[/size][/font]
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[font "Arial"][size 2]We had to leave early Monday morning. Fishing was never very fast, but it was still fun and we ended up catching stripers, catfish, bluegill, smallmouth bass, green sunfish and pumkinseed sunfish. Too bad we could never get the night fishing going. That is my favorite.[/size][/font]
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[font "Arial"][size 2]Saturday morning was cool. We went as far as 117 looking for boils but finding none. Eventually we tried fishing shoreline structure with twister tails. We caught lots of smallmouth bass and big bluegill. Saw another boat at the cleaning station with a few stripers. Said they caught them in the same area we were in several hours after we left. Tried night fishing from the docks again but didn't even draw in any plankton.[/size][/font]
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[font "Arial"][size 2]Sunday morning we started early intending to head up lake. Spotted a boil across from Moqui Wall. Chased slurps for about four hours and caught about eight really nice stripers (16 to 19 inches). In the afternoon we headed up lake again, only to get trapped by a thunderstorm before we got very far. Pulled into the back of a canyon to wait it out. We were stuck for a couple of hours. We made use of the time to catch a dozen or so catfish--none very large. After the weather cleared we again found small boils across from Moqui and chased them until dark.[/size][/font]
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[font "Arial"][size 2]We had to leave early Monday morning. Fishing was never very fast, but it was still fun and we ended up catching stripers, catfish, bluegill, smallmouth bass, green sunfish and pumkinseed sunfish. Too bad we could never get the night fishing going. That is my favorite.[/size][/font]
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