06-25-2018, 03:25 PM
Saturday, wife and I put the boat on the Bear River at the Bird Refuge ramp. Seems most of the irrigation channel gates are closed or almost closed. River level was down just a little, not flowing real fast. Gates at the bridges were closed also. We decided to go down river first. Stopped at a couple river bends and deep spots that showed fish holding. Mate started catching small cats at about second stop. Photoed first cat, which was smallest but not small enough for the Cat Contest. Photoed her second cat which was largest for the day. Didn't photo all the others. I managed to barely avoid a skunk with one baby kitten. The weather was great, bugs, biting flies, skeeters, were pretty intense when the wind would die down. Think Mate killed more Deer Flies than worms [sly]
Only saw a couple other people fishin Saturday. Talked briefly with a couple that were launching a canoe same time were were. Then saw them just after they pulled out as we went back up river past the ramp.
Sunday, son #4 and I had plans to get on the water at UL LB. We made it to LB a bit later than planned. I got my boat from the storage unit at time planned, but going out the gate hit a speed bump that cost me about 20 minutes. Gate opened about 2 feet, then stopped.........dead......like power had been shut off. [
] couldn't push it, code entry from either side.. no go...called the phone number listed....got answering message. Called number again about 3 times, let it ring just until message started, hung up, repeated. On site manager came out, saw me, the situation with the gate, and unlocked it so it could be opened manually. So got on my way to pick up my son.
Got on the water at Lincoln Beach about 0730. Light breeze, no clouds, lots of bugs [:/] Went around to west side of LB channel where there were 2 other boats. Stayed about 200 yards out from those boats in about 7 fow.
One hour on the water, lots of small nibbles, then a hard hit and reel strip run on the light line I was using for White Bass. medium -light rod, 8 lb mono, Gulp pinched worm 3 feet under a bobber, big male Cat with bad attitude. 10 minutes of working him to keep him from going under the boat, finally got him to net and boated. 24 incher, not big enough to use for contest, but good fight, CPR. Moved
to a couple other spots heading west , lots of nibbles, no more full bites. Made the run out to Bird Island. Several boats on west and north sides. Again, 4 lines in the water 4 different baits, 2 on the bottom, 2 under bobbers, moved around to 3 different spots. Son got one hard hit and run, then fish reversed course, put lots of slack in his line, went under the boat. Son got slack reeled in, one tug on the rod, snap........line cut off under boat [:/]. About 1230 headed back toward LB, stopped out in the east side bay..........nada. Went around to west side of LB jetty.......FINALLY son managed to boat 1 small whitie. In 12 minutes I boated a Bullhead and a whitie. Thought maybe the bite was back on...........nope. Called it a day about 2:30.............headed home........no dead skunk on the road this time..........[
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Only saw a couple other people fishin Saturday. Talked briefly with a couple that were launching a canoe same time were were. Then saw them just after they pulled out as we went back up river past the ramp.
Sunday, son #4 and I had plans to get on the water at UL LB. We made it to LB a bit later than planned. I got my boat from the storage unit at time planned, but going out the gate hit a speed bump that cost me about 20 minutes. Gate opened about 2 feet, then stopped.........dead......like power had been shut off. [
] couldn't push it, code entry from either side.. no go...called the phone number listed....got answering message. Called number again about 3 times, let it ring just until message started, hung up, repeated. On site manager came out, saw me, the situation with the gate, and unlocked it so it could be opened manually. So got on my way to pick up my son. Got on the water at Lincoln Beach about 0730. Light breeze, no clouds, lots of bugs [:/] Went around to west side of LB channel where there were 2 other boats. Stayed about 200 yards out from those boats in about 7 fow.
One hour on the water, lots of small nibbles, then a hard hit and reel strip run on the light line I was using for White Bass. medium -light rod, 8 lb mono, Gulp pinched worm 3 feet under a bobber, big male Cat with bad attitude. 10 minutes of working him to keep him from going under the boat, finally got him to net and boated. 24 incher, not big enough to use for contest, but good fight, CPR. Moved
to a couple other spots heading west , lots of nibbles, no more full bites. Made the run out to Bird Island. Several boats on west and north sides. Again, 4 lines in the water 4 different baits, 2 on the bottom, 2 under bobbers, moved around to 3 different spots. Son got one hard hit and run, then fish reversed course, put lots of slack in his line, went under the boat. Son got slack reeled in, one tug on the rod, snap........line cut off under boat [:/]. About 1230 headed back toward LB, stopped out in the east side bay..........nada. Went around to west side of LB jetty.......FINALLY son managed to boat 1 small whitie. In 12 minutes I boated a Bullhead and a whitie. Thought maybe the bite was back on...........nope. Called it a day about 2:30.............headed home........no dead skunk on the road this time..........[
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