04-05-2014, 12:10 PM
Sitting in my office at work, checking the weather on KSL, knowing it is sunny outside and the forecast is for a wet Saturday. Decided to take some time off owed and hit the bay at least a couple hours.
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It was a beautiful afternoon, and I almost had the little white stripped critter chased out of the boat, but couldn't complete the deal with the medium size Eye.
Was on the water about 45 minutes, slow trolling about .6 to .7 mph (my new Trolling plate works real nice) had a sparkling silver / blue rat-l-trap on one line and a chrome and chartreuse on the other. Both were bouncing slowly off the bottom, and the silver / blue one stopped bouncing, did a steady bend acting like a snag. Stopped the Tin Can, set the drag, started reeling, and soon there is a flashy yellow toothy fish on the surface acting like it's given up. I get him to the boat, turn to reach for my net, and must have given him just an inch or two of slack line, whoops......gone!
Oh well, not complaining. Was a nice couple hours on the water.
Now for more important stuff. North marina water level continues to rise slow but steady. Water is right at the edge of the two outside launch ramp sections that are shorter than the middle. Orange cones still up to warn you if you get too far down those sides, you WILL drop the trailer wheels off a hard edge of concrete.
Give it another couple weeks, just may be usable again. Depth at end of ramp is 3', and at the one dock it's 7 - 8' . Channel heading out is 7 - 9', the hump at the outlet is now a more comfortable 4.5 - 5' under. From about 100 yards out into the main body it's 9' and deepens as you go west. North west wall area directly west of marina is up to 12 - 13'. That's about where I had my first "un-hook at the boat this year".
Didn't make a drive by thru the south marina.
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It was a beautiful afternoon, and I almost had the little white stripped critter chased out of the boat, but couldn't complete the deal with the medium size Eye.
Was on the water about 45 minutes, slow trolling about .6 to .7 mph (my new Trolling plate works real nice) had a sparkling silver / blue rat-l-trap on one line and a chrome and chartreuse on the other. Both were bouncing slowly off the bottom, and the silver / blue one stopped bouncing, did a steady bend acting like a snag. Stopped the Tin Can, set the drag, started reeling, and soon there is a flashy yellow toothy fish on the surface acting like it's given up. I get him to the boat, turn to reach for my net, and must have given him just an inch or two of slack line, whoops......gone!
Oh well, not complaining. Was a nice couple hours on the water.
Now for more important stuff. North marina water level continues to rise slow but steady. Water is right at the edge of the two outside launch ramp sections that are shorter than the middle. Orange cones still up to warn you if you get too far down those sides, you WILL drop the trailer wheels off a hard edge of concrete.
Give it another couple weeks, just may be usable again. Depth at end of ramp is 3', and at the one dock it's 7 - 8' . Channel heading out is 7 - 9', the hump at the outlet is now a more comfortable 4.5 - 5' under. From about 100 yards out into the main body it's 9' and deepens as you go west. North west wall area directly west of marina is up to 12 - 13'. That's about where I had my first "un-hook at the boat this year".
Didn't make a drive by thru the south marina.
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, up in the boat, get her started and running smooth, unhook the bow stand hook, and back her off to whatever dock is there, or piece of not too rocky edge to beach her. Go park the truck and trailer, then back on the boat and head out. By myself once I get to wherever the location of that day is, that whole process takes me no more than 15 min. If I have a partner with me that has been thru that process a few times, then it takes a bit less time and he gets the task of parking the truck while I start rigging the fishin rods, etc.