Still in saint george helping a friend w a landscape project. I'm sending this from my phone. Fishing is great. Averaged over 20 per day and several in the 4 pound range with four over five and one that went 6.04. Post more when I get home
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Now I am jealous. Nice fish guys![cool]
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Great Report. Those are some great fish!
My brother and I are headed down there this weekend for a few days of fishing. We love that place. Are the fish holding pretty deep still or have they started to move into shallower water.
If you don't mind me asking, what types of baits were you throwing, jigs, worms, senkos? I would think that slower baits would be more effective, but we have never fished down there this early in the year. Thanks for posting and I will post a report when we get back.
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Nice fish, I need to make a stop down there on my way to Cali next time. What was the water temp.?
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Can't wait to make a trip down there this year and find some like those! Great fish!
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It may be a few days before he get back to SLC, The bass are on the move with some moving up each warm day and some will stay deep...
Most will be in 2' to 10' and by next month they will spawn around the full moon..
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Those are some nice bass right there.[
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My brother and I hit Sand Hollow for the first time on Sunday and it got pretty nasty later in the day. I left Mead to escape the wind and ended up getting blasted on a pond. lololol
The fish were deep (15'-35' in singles) I marked schools on the backside of that island to the right of the launch where it gets like 70'. I marked 20-30 fish holding on that structure there real deep (30-65') but they would bite nothing. I also marked large school on the first point to the left of the launch. These fish would not bite.
We caught 6 keepers in about two hours of fishing with the largest being just short of 2lbs then the wind literally pushed us out. The 6 were all caught on DD22s, slamming the bottom in 15'-25' of water. We were using sunfish and bluegill patterns on the cranks.
Nice little place there though. Ill be back.
Whats with this swimmers itch thing Im hearing about there. I would not mind towing the family up there in the summer but not if we cant swim. Anyone have the scoop on that. Thanks
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From what I was told, cranks was not working as good as other things..
And some of the deeper fish was not bass, but big blue gills
I was told that they had to slow down in the wind to feel the bite, I just wish I could have been there...
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I just got back and will post pics later, Im very tired. I fished last thursday thru sunday and today and it went like this. Thurs I caught 21, fri I caught 17 saturday in the tourny I caught 27 and sunday half a day I caught 18 and today with snow down there and two hours I caught 6. There are fish in the shallows in one to two feet, even today. And I was catching them in 30 ft. most all fish came from around 10. Blades, jigs and chatter baits is what was the best. I will post more pics later as I caught some nice bass. Several four pounders with a little over six being the best. If You dont find brush You wont find fish.
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Yeah, we struggled all morning throwing different reaction baits and finally they started hitting those dds right before we got blown out. We saw all the other guys out in the middle all bunched up and looked to be dropshotting. I did a little finesse work but got frustrated with that pretty quick with the wind.
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Dayum, sounds like some serious action. Nice work.
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How many boat cleaning stations did they have down there? I'm trying to do one day at SH and the following day at Quail next month but the boys are whining that it will take too long to get out of SH.
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It only takes ten min. It goes quickly just beat the rush. If there is one
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I actually got there around 7:00 and the window lady said, oh, we dont have any washers till 9:30 and no rangers to inspect it till 10:30. Im like well, thats ok; we will just fish the shorline till 9. Then she made a call and seconds later this guy comes out with the trailer washes me up and calls his buddy the ranger to walk him through an inspection and off I went to the launch. SWEET.
Really nice people. She said when it warms up they start washing at 6:30, but until then they start at 9:30.
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