We arrived at Jordanelle this morning around 7:30 am. It was a little frigid with the temps around 25 degrees. Take caution on the boat ramps this early in the season, I thought my dad killed himself on the black ice at the waters edge! We started trolling the east side in around 60 feet of water. We picked up 1 small rainbow and two 15" Browns within the first 20 minutes. We continued to fish the east side but there were half dozen trollers doing the same thing so we decided to troll the center of the lake. We started hooking up with several Browns in the 15-17" range again. I was using dark bronze colors while my dad fished with pink and black lures tipped with a small peice of night crawler. We finally started hooking into some decent fish around 9:00 am with the biggest being 21" and weighing three pounds. The best fish were all suspended in about 40 feet of water. The Browns were hitting hard and fighting better than last week. Several of the fish caught we watched on the electronics come up a good 10-15' to hit our lures. The bite stopped for us about noon. We also stopped running dodgers because they seemed to spook the Browns and attract the planter rainbows!
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Great pics and report, thanks for sharing.
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One of the techniques that I have been experimenting with is running the dodger/flasher above the lure I'm presenting - the lure will be back 30' to 50' and the dodger/flasher 10' above hooked to the rigger cable. This works better in clear water and had some pretty good success but always learning.
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Thanks albinotrout!
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You got that place figured out. I always struggle at that lake for the browns. Sounds like I need to try some different lures. We have only been able to catch a few each trip. Nice report.[fishon]
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That makes sense. I know some guys do this with Kokes. Thanks for the input!
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If I was consistantly catching 5lb Browns, I'd have it figured out! Haha if you want to message me, I might be able to help out?
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I was in the tracker boat
you was the only one I say
The fish I got looked like cutthroats we put them all back but come to think about it the fins did not look like cuts
you can see the fish come up I had two fishfinder turned on so you can see the interference
The one with the 40' Tree took my lure
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I thought I might to run into someone on this site out there today! You were in the money spot, they just moved out a little further on us. We stayed until about 1:30pm. There are cutts in there but a lot of the smaller Browns have a similar spot pattern. That brown my dad held up was the only one we kept because it swallowed the whole lure! The lighter colors were working great until about 9:00 then we had to switch back to dark. We probably finished the day with around 20 fish. Did you finish up with quite a few? They were really stacked up in that bay you kept trolling in!!!
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Great report and pictures.
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My buddy and I were up there too yesterday in the blue Lund. We buzzed by both you and liketrolling on our way up to the north end.
We casted the shoreline, and I struggled all day to put three 18"ish browns and one planter rainbow in the boat, but my buddy (tunahooker here on BFT) had the hot lure and put nine browns, one rainbow, and this 22" cutt-bow that went 4 1/4 lbs on the scale, into the boat. That's four trips in a row now that one of us has put a 4 lb or better fish into the boat, all casting. Gotta love that streak ;0) All fish were released to fight another day. Fred K.
pic 1) Me w/4 1/4 lb brown two weeks ago.
pic 2) Tunahooker with his 4 1/4 lb cut-bow yesterday.
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[#0000FF]The "cutt bow" appears to be a pure rainbow. Some rainbows have orange slashes under their gills but they are still rainbows. Otherwise, the spotting pattern and coloring is 100% rainbow.
Darn nice fish anyway.
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It had the distinctive orange slashes under the jaw, which is what I've always been told was the distinguishing mark between a rainbow and cutt-bow. Whatever the case, its the biggest rainbow/hybrid that I've personally seen come out of there in a long time. She's still in there, so go get her TD ;0) Fred K.
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[#0000FF]There are pure strain rainbows from many waters that sport the orange slashes under the jaw. It was that characteristic that led to a lot of folks releasing rainbows at Strawberry...and other folks getting citations for keeping them. Since then DWR has clarified the "cutthroat markings" to exclude those orange slashes on rainbows.
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Any trout with cutthroat characteris
-tics (not necessarily jaw slashing) is
considered to be a cutthroat trout. Slash
marks under the jaw should not be
used to distinguish Bear Lake cutthroat
trout from rainbow trout at Strawberry.
Slashing is sometimes absent on Bear
Lake cutthroats and sometimes visible
on rainbows.
[#0000FF]Again, beautiful fish. Not likely I will be chasing it anytime soon but it will be nice if someone else is able to enjoy the benefits of your release. Most folks would have taken that one home.
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Those are nice fish! Yeah, I past you a few times casting lures by that small rock pile. There were a lot of fish straight out from there that day.
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