A Full Day Of Fishing....

[orvis1]

[font "Times New Roman"]Rj-Max4 and I have been discussing a trip for about a year now, timing just hadn’t seemed to work out, but this was the weekend. I met him when LOAH and I took my first trip with a fellow forum member over a year ago. I was looking forward to this because it is one of my favorite lakes and Huntington built a new boat ramp where you can launch boats with less than 10hp a tin can boater’s paradise! This also gave me a chance to fish with Greenguy88 and Stevo. The company was great and the fishing did not disappoint either, no monsters to speak of, but a 60 fish day is always welcomed! We started out by fishing E-lake in the morning. Since it was June Stevo and Greenguy88 showed up at my house at 4:30am in shorts, it is summer right? We arrived to E-lake and 23 degree temps to greet us, is summer ever going to come? Luckily I remembered to throw my ice-fishing bag in the truck so I dawned the 7-11 robbing mask and layered up! You just can’t beat the scenery it was sure nice to get up in the high country again![/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"]We taught Rj-Max4 the trick of making a small fish look like a trophy, hold it out really close to the camera:[/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"]Greenguy88 seemed to have the hot rod for most of the morning. He missed about as many strikes as he tagged. He is not a fan of pop gear and as soon as he would pick up one of his rods, the other one would start bouncing.[/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"]He was having trouble holding on to the fish once in the boat, hold still for your picture then we will get you back in the water:[/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"]Rj-Max4 poses with a typical E-lake cut:[/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"]Plus he caught this HUGE stick fish; look at the fight on this bugger![/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"]I was skunked to this point, while everyone else was catching fish. We beached the boat and tried from shore, yours truly finally connected with a nice one after I tripped over a rock trying to get to my rod:[/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"]We decided to wrap up the morning at E-lake and snapped another photo for the post:[/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"]We went down to Fairview to refill our bellies, and stopped at a local burger joint and had the special:[/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"]We had some time in the afternoon and fished some of the local streams, they were in run off mode but we found one that looked fishable. We all caught fish here it gave me a chance to catch up on the fish count but the highlight was Stevo got his first fish on a fly rod that we actually got in hand this time![/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"]Huntington was a little slow we managed to get about ½ a dozen, no one got skunked but the trophy tiger we were hunting for alluded us. Stevo had the best one at about 16 inches and Rj-Max4 got a good one on the troll:[/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
[font "Times New Roman"][/font]
[font "Times New Roman"] [/font]
We got home about 10:45 pm, and had what I call a full day of fishing! Thanks for coming along I had a blast. Great company, good fishing, good eats, and fishing in shorts in the high country what else could you ask for!
[signature]

[humpy]

WOW what a great post! Glad you all had a good time. Tell Rj-Max4 the arm trick with the camera doesn't work if you can touch your little fingers together. [sly] lol

Humpy
[signature]

[orvis1]

Cmon' that lil one was at least 20 inches, we are all just giants.....
[signature]

[Kent]

"Huntington built a new boat ramp where you can launch boats with less than 10hp"

I notice that in the Fishing Guidebook it states:

"Operating a boat with a gas engine over 10 HP is PROHIBITED on the following waters:
1. Huntington (Mammoth Reservoir) (Sanpete Country)"

I wonder if it is legal to use a larger boat as long as one doesn't fire up the gas engine over 10 HP? I realize that the ramp is narrow, but my family fits in the larger boat and it has a 6 hp trolling motor that would get me around just fine on Huntington.
[signature]

[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]There are many lakes around the country that restrict horsepower sizes...but there are no restrictions on the size of the boat. On such lakes it is not uncommon to see fully rigged bassboats, with their big motors up, cruising around with just the electric bow mount motors for power. That is generally considered legal. The restrictions are for reducing wakes, noise and pollution.[/#0000ff]
[signature]

[Kent]

[quote kentofnsl]
I notice that in the Fishing Guidebook it states:

"Operating a boat with a gas engine over 10 HP is PROHIBITED on the following waters:
1. Huntington (Mammoth Reservoir) (Sanpete Country)"

I wonder if it is legal to use a larger boat as long as one doesn't fire up the gas engine over 10 HP? I realize that the ramp is narrow, but my family fits in the larger boat and it has a 6 hp trolling motor that would get me around just fine on Huntington.[/quote]

Made several phone calls and found out that it is a U.S. Forest Service rule. Called the forest service (435-637-2817) and spoke to a gentleman in law enforcement. He said that as long as I left the larger engine in its locked upright position that I should be fine. He said if I wanted to be even safer from being ticketed I could leave the key to that outboard in my tow vehicle.
[signature]