Fishing Forum

I was up at Henry's yesterday and had a good time, mostly. The weather initially was very calm and pretty sunny, then around noon it got a little windy and looked like it might send some storm clouds in. About 4 it rained a little and the wind had picked up and had some pretty good gusts. We were about to head in with the boat d/t the wind but the fish started hitting and since we were only about 75 yds from the dock we waited it out and it calmed down and was very nice again until we left at 6.

Fishing we couldn't get the freaking motor going for about 1/2 an hour in the morning. When some guys hooked 3 fish in a row on flies (sry, don't know what kind) we gave up and used the electric and stayed close to shore. We landed 3 in the 16 inch range trolling towards the cliffs. 2 were on a 1/4 oz PM black and yellow w/ a small piece or worm. The other was on a walleye rigged worm below a blue spin 'n glow. Just as we get to the cliffs the motor looses power, apparently the battery isn't holding much of a charge for some reason. We did get the main motor going at this time and headed towards the dock where we fished about 100 yds from the dock. We immediately started hooking them on worms about 3 ft below a bobber. Best one topped 5 lbs. Most were in the 17" range. Later throwing heavy metal lures with holographic tape and using a very erractic retrieve with frequent short pauses worked very well. We did catch one close to shore using a leach pattern w/ a chironomid dropper (it hit the dropper). Final tally was around 20fish landed plus a few more strikes that we didn't land. Overall, a good day.

We did see a fair number of people fishing from shore with worms, flies and lures, but the only people that seemed to have any luck were those using flies. I'm not sure how those that were in boats further out were doing though.
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See my Saturday Sunday report on the Utah forum:

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Thanks, Good report Belasko
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Just got back from Henry's. Fishing was decent. Went up Thursday and came back Sunday. We averaged 20-25 fish per day, biggest was 5lbs 3oz @ 24". Landed quite a few 3-4lb fish. Thursday was cold with water temp @ 37 in the morning and 39 by evening, but no wind. Friday was excellent, water temp average 38 and no wind. The state boat dock had about 1" of ice on it and was a little slick as 4-Wheel Drive was required and the temp was 14 degrees at 8AM. It was glass smooth and the best fishing. Saturday rolled in with 30+ mph winds, huge waves, winds changing direction and was down right cold, but we fished all day and rode the waves. Still caught plenty of fish even tho there were only 3 other boats left on the lake by the time we left out of the 40+ that launched that morning. Sunday was a little slower and nothing over 3 lbs, but still a nice day after the wind died down around 11am. I sucked a rock into the impeller Sunday morning next to the north shore. Could not find the little sucker so top speed was 7mph until we got back to the dock and finally found where it was wedged in the impeller. Good thing we were just trolling. We tried some bait fishing on the bottom, but it was slow and the fish were hitting the bait very lightly. With out using 2 anchors it was tough to stay put so you could see the "nibble". The water is turning and there is a ton of weeds floating around at times. The fish are in the shallows in the weeds. Overall, a very good relaxing weekend up there. Can't wait for spring to roll around and do it again.
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Sounds like a great weekend! Great pics in there. I can't wait until I actually can take an entire weekend up there dedicated to just fishing that lake.
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[ol][li]I fished Friday and Sat morning- Henrys lived up to it's hype. Many very nice fish and lost some beasts because I left the net at home. Friday was cold and as said previously I had waves breaking over the back of the toon Sat, All fish were caught on a maroon with red crystal flash leech ( #4 hook). Biggest landed fish was well over 6#- The weight calculater said much more than that but no way.[/li][li] [/li][/ol]
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Fished HL Saturday p.m. along the west side in the A-Frame Bay. Caught 17 on a Beadhead Electric Black and a Brown CB. Several large fish hooked and landed. Great fishing.
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