Yes we was up to the Gorge...
We hit the road Wednesday about 4:30 pm, we had rain and wind or just wind most of the way..
We wanted to hit the water by 5:30 and did that..It rained most of the night but was looking good that morning..[sly][crazy][:/] We ran over to a spot we like to fish and was catching fish in five cast or less..
The morning was looking good in the east but then we looked west..[laugh]
The dark clouds had a silver crown on the mountains to the west, with lightning all along the clouds and we had very little time to get our rain suites on..
The fishing was great and the rain felt warm with just a little wind...We had deer antelope and Eagles watching us fish..
We worked lots of spots all over from Buckboard to Linwood bay, we seemed to have most of the lake to ourselfs most of the time...
The water temps was 62 to 64 all over it stopped raining about one hour before we had to get off the lake..
It was a great day of fishing in the rain, we boated over 30+ bass from 12" up to three pounds..
We used lots of lures but one made it way to the top on catching the most and biggest, the grub for more then 2/3 of the bass..
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[font "Courier New"][#000080][size 3]Not sure I'd be too comfortable with the lightening thing... I've heard that some people have gotten shocked from their rods!
Seems a lot of my fishing trips on big waters (not city ponds) have stormy weather. I remember when I went with you, and it hailed!
I went to Willard with UThunting once, and it rained so much we could hardly see shore!
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Nothing in life is with out risk, if you wait for the best weather or day you can watch your life go by...
Some risk is worth the pay off, the storm was all around us and once we put the boat on shore and waited for the storm to pass..It was all fun and a great trip..
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Same type of weather at East Canyon. We didn't dare get in the water with our tubes. The lightning was really neat to watch cuz it was so close. I woulda felt a little safer in a boat myself. Back in 03 or 04 a few friends and i got ourselves in a real jam on Utah Lake. My buddy had a Chapparal 21' cuddy(still does) He thought we should head back but we decided to listen to Richard instead. "Awe it'll calm down in a while. Lets ride it out!". We launched out of AF Harbor around 3pm that Friday. We had taken on almost 12 " of water, the swells were so high that the hull and prop connected with the lake bottom numerous times. We all thought we were gonna die. Except for ol' Richard. He didn't have a care in the world..We all kind of came to that conclusion as we finally made our way into Lincoln Beach Harbor after 4 hours of fighting against these, what seemed liked, 4 to 10 foot swells. As we get close to the outside of the east dike we decide that because of the still large waves even in the harbor that one of us should jump with the anchor and swim it to the dike and secure it. The other one we had thrown out was far enough away that we wouldn't slam into the dike. The one on the dike would keep us from drifting back out. We thought that we should turn on the depth finder again so we could find a place for myself and them 30 lb anchor to jump overboard and we thought probably walk it to shore. HA Depth finder reads 3 feet about 50 yards out and that was close enough for Johnny. We still had 2 and 3 foot swells where we were. I jumped over and disappeared into the water. Everyone panics because i should not have disappeared in just 3 feet of water. Rob and Richard were just ready to dive in as I surface. 3 (4ltrwordendsw/ing) feet my ass! So there I was trying to tread water in 2 foot swells with a 30 lbs anchor tight in my clutches. I gave it my last go and swam as fast as I could to the dike. Laid down after I had placed the anchor and passed out........on the ground in the middle of this storm. We were scared and tired but thankful Johnny still had his boat and we had our lives. Because that night 2 people that we saw, as we were fighting the waves towards Lincoln Beach died. After the storm had passed we went to Provo boat Harbor. We had been without food and water for nearly 12 hours. After the Provo Police interviewed us and the Paramedics checked us out we learned that several boats capsized and that they watched as we went by not knowing why we didn't stop there. And this is when Richard told the Police that it would not have been safe and we definitely would have capsized. Then we learned that Richard had been a Crab fisherman in the Behring Strait for 18 years some years back. Not heading dead center against the waves and throttling up would have resulted in this little 21 foot cuddy to be flipped over nothin flat.
So Bassrods i am still on the fence on this one. It was a terrifying and sort of cool experience all at once. Not funny like the a guy I saw years back, not sure if it was a State Qualifier or Club Tourney but doin close to 75 out of horseshoe canyon out into Lynwood Bay and it was choppy as all hell. One second you see his bassboat the next time he hit water, all his lockers open up and you see him his partner and all his gear about 4 to 6 feet above the boat. Fortunately he didn't loose his bag and was able to still weigh in.
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awesome smb props to you man!
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No offense, but jumping overboard during a storm at utah lake holding a thirty pound anchor seems like a pretty stupid idea....
just sayin is all....
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Thanks, The bass is all but dun with the spawn and in post spawn..
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None taken! The whole idea of being on Utah Lake AT ALL, during a storm was a pretty stupid one. I don't care if Jaque Custeau is the captain. But yeah I am pretty sure i uttered those very words on my awkward swim to the dike.
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