Hit the lake about 4 p.m. in my little port-a-bote. My goal was to catch some walleye but to no avail[:/] I ended up hooking into four white bass. I also had two big carp on, but both got off. All the fish were caught in about 1 to 2 feet of water. The white bass were all caught on a 3" grub with a 1/16 oz. lead jig head. With my second pole permit, I sunk a worm the whole time but I surprisingly didn't get even one hit on that. Now that i've caught some fish after being skunked throughout the winter, I won't be able to sleep at night until I can go fishing again!
It's funny the only time i've seen you (Walleyebob) was on your profile, but when I pulled out of the water, I thought that was you...come to find out it was. Got to love BFT.
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Did you go from Lincoln Beach to the pumphouse in your port-a-bote, or did you fish both places?
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[cool][#0000ff]You are confusing regular Utah Lake anglers by the title of your report. The "pumphouse" is usually considered to the be pumps at the mouth of the Jordan River...at the other end of Utah Lake.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]You were fishing the shallow pump house channel at Lincoln Beach. That is the same area we fished from tubes and toons yesterday and left before you got there. It is attracting both white bass and carp into the shallow water right now because there is a warm inflow at the very south end of that channel. While outside lake temps are under 40 degrees we found temps at the back end as warm as 44 degrees. And there ARE white bass in water as shallow as about 1 foot deep.[/#0000ff]
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nice report cant wait, weather looks nice for next week.
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That makes much more sense. I was going to nominate him for boater of the year if he took a port-a-boat all the way across Utah Lake.
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Do any of you just try white bass meat on a light jig head under a bobber? me and my dad could catch as many as we wanted that way, I have had great success on yellow maribo jigs also slowly retrived under a casting bobber half full of water in shallow inlet channels.Just curious.
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What would you catch with that type of rig? And how did you retrieve the jig? Maybe naive but it seems that rigging a bubble/jig combo defeats the purpose of a "jig". Let me know, I'm always looking for new ways to catch fish.
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Steelhead and yellow perch fishermen float a small jig under a bobber and it works very well. The waves give it a little action. I've caught tons of white bass with a little curly tail jig (1/16 oz or smaller) under a weighted float and it works like a champ! Down at the Minersville Reservoir, back when it was a trophy fishery (I'm not sure if it still is), during the spring, you would catch huge rainbows floating a copper or brown colored marabou jig under a bobber at ice-out. You would cast the set up onto the ice, drag it just until it fell off the ice and the rainbows loved it. I've heard people doing it at Strawberry with a black colored tube jig or black marabou jig at ice-out as well for huge cutthroats. When I do it, I just give the rod a little action and that seems to cause strikes when the waves don't.
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