Fishing Forum

Unless UL gets a lot more water in it before winter, yesterday was my last trip down to the southern catfish contest stronghold.[sly]
Planned to fish 2 days, Friday and today, like we did two weeks ago. But had some family emergencies come up late Friday nite, so headed home this morning. Didn't do great yesterday, but no skunks. First time I have been all the way over to the west side straight out from the State Park. Anchored out in about 5 ft. of water, maybe 300 yards off the shore line. Was a nice, quiet, calm late morning, early afternoon. Could not see another single boat anywhere on the lake. Know there had to be a few, cause of the trailers in the marina parking.

I was just gazing at the barren brown hills on the west side of the lake, and the quarry that is mining out one of Utah's biggest exports.......ROCKS...... when all of a sudden,,,,












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Caught some nice Channels all released, and of course numerous Bullheads, all released, called it a day about 3 PM.

Before I close this out, and I know this has probably been asked before, but what is the most unusual, unexpected fish catching bait some of you have ever used? Was it a one time fluke? Or did you try it again with any reasonable success? I really am asking for a good reason, but before I say why or what, I want to do some amateur theory testing. Will try it out at Willard tomorrow, maybe up on upper Bear River this fall. Caught 4 respectable kitties at UL yesterday with this strange item as bait. I assure you there isn't anything I can find in the regulations that prohibit it, it isn't any type of fish from any other body of water, or from UL. And if you have this with you while you are fishin, and nothing is biting it, you can snack on it. []
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Tell me..Tell me...Tell me...Tell me...
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Must be strawberry twizlers. I don't think you would snack on night crawlers.


RJ
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Swedish Fish? [bobhappy]

I talked to a couple bank tanglers earlier this year that told me they were catching cats on licorice. Had another guy tell me he used "air heads".

I've caught just about every utah game fish in Utah on bread, including white bass today.
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I have personally caught fish by using see dish fish before. The strangest thing I have used was a cheeto.
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I used to catch cats at Willard on chunks of hot dog soaked in either vanilla or vinegar. Caught one fish after another.
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Strangest thing I've used for bait was red vines, the red variety of course. That was in the ocean as a young'n. Did not catch anything though.

My guess as to your bait is jerky of some type.

As for the quarry, I live several miles from it, and it still is a shocker, on the larger blasts, as the windows shake, can't imagine the houses that are a few miles closer. I guess at the very least it keeps dust from building up.
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Launched at American fork the 28th and fished Bubble-up and Lindon as well as out from the retention ponds and the American fork Jetty. Two bites, missed one and broke the line off the hook on the other. Grand total was Zero. Didn't see another fisherman anywhere, even in the Marina. Marina was mud trail for every big boat that exited with drives in full tilt. Weather was wonderful, hardly needed the anchor. Actually went straight out from Marina a long way (maybe a mile) and water was still 3.5 off the bottom of the boat. Talked to several boaters who indicated this was the last trip due to water conditions. As long as your bait doesn't have a fuse I'd use it.
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Now that I have looked at the pictures, I am guessing the strange bait was gummie worms.

The good thing about some of the "baits" like licorice is they should stay on the hook a good long time. sort of like using squid. you have to try and get the bait off the hook.
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My wife used bubble gum once with success. Looks like you were using Swedish fish. My son used twizzlers on Yuba chasing pike successfully too.
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OK, OK, I guess it wasn't such a new thing to anyone but me. Couple of you hit it spot on, several were close.
Swedish Fish. [sly][sly][sly]....I would have NEVER even thought to try it. The partner with me last Friday was just kind of joking around and said" I wonder if these fish can catch fish" She had some worm and a Swedish fish on a big bait hook, and a pretty good size cat took it. Was a good fight getting it into the net then into the boat. So we tried a couple different variations, worm-SF-worm, worm-SF, SF-worm, one SF, two SF. Just about all of them caught something. I guessed it was like someone here said, the candy gets sticky, is hard to strip off the hook. And I think because it dissolves slowly and makes a scent pattern, it's easier to find in that brown stained UL water.
I tried it yesterday at Willard, nada, zip, zilch, at least nada on the Swedish Fish. Did catch fish, but that's for a separate report. Thanks for the replies all of ya.

Yep, that's a Swedish Fish hanging out of that kitties mouth
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I've used some home made chex mix, not in UL but the Green, and landed some nice Cats.
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Awesome! Thanks for sharing! We had a pretty fun time on UL a couple weekends ago. Here are a few pics of the kitties that we caught, we were just using boring old nightcrawlers though! gonna have to take some sweedish fish for a snack and extra bait next time! [] O and I will throw in a good old carp pic too!
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[quote Snowman1013]Awesome! Thanks for sharing! We had a pretty fun time on UL a couple weekends ago. Here are a few pics of the kitties that we caught, we were just using boring old nightcrawlers though! gonna have to take some sweedish fish for a snack and extra bait next time! [] O and I will throw in a good old carp pic too![/quote]

Those are some awesome kitties. [cool] Thanks for sharing.
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[cool] Snowman, were you shore fishing or boat fishing? I'm thinking of going out tonight but the last two times I went out shore fishing there we got skunked, as, I'm pretty sure the most of the cats went out into deeper water since the lake is so shallow and water temps by shore were too high during July and August. I'm wondering if the water temps are cooling off enough yet to have success by shore again if the cats have moved back in.

Also, two weekends ago I went out with Beggin4bass and we had good success in his boat just drifting in the wind for cats. We'd go out about a half mile West of the bubble up and the West blowing wind would drift us back in slowly and we would catch fish as long as we were in four to five feet of water. But again, I want to know if the cats are back in close to shore now if the water temps have dropped back into the 60's...
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We waded out from shore about 100 yards or so...water was about mid-thigh. Had some tubes to sit in when we needed a break from standing there...we caught nothing but channel cats and a few carp. We have done this quite a few times, mostly over the summer and in the morning rather than night, and had similar results, though probably not quite as big earlier in the summer, but more action of the 24 inch 3-5lb variety.
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