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I hit up the reedline south of the Lindon boat harbor last Saturday morning and last night as well. It seems the big cats might be moving back out to deeper water. For about the last month I don't think I caught any channels under 20 inches, but as of last week I was only able to pick up a few. Caught a lot of juvenile cats right around 12 inches and under but the big guys seemed to be few and far between. Guess it's time to switch things up a bit. On a side note, I've been using circle hooks and have been really happy with their performance with catfish, but I ran into a nice school of white bass and seemed to have a harder time hooking up. I think it has something to do with cats having a wide, solid mouth that seems to clamp down on their prey, compared to the thin round mouths of the bass.
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Yea, now that the spawn is over and the water is warming the bigger cats are headed to their normal summer time haunts. I've also had good success with circle hooks not only for cats but also bigger fish like sturgeon. I've never tried using them for the whites but the smaller ones should work if your using bait. I've always just used jigs with grubs and done fine, and rarely have a white swallow the jig. WH2
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Now I just gotta find those summertime haunts. I like fishing the reedline because it's a lot easier to see where they should be, but when it comes to open water I'm a little lost. I have a fish finder but it's a little harder to use when the water is so shallow. I pretty much abandoned it when I fished closer to shore cause I kept mapping ton's of carp. I know it helps to find underwater structure and dropoffs, but there isn't much of that where I fish on the flats. I guess it's mostly trial and error, but any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Utah Lake is basicly a shallow bowl. there are very few structrual aspects to it other than the man-made jettys and rock piles, incoming streams, and such. The only real natural structure is on the south end of the lake. Lincon Beach has a series of ledges that are volcanic rock that was pushed out in layers eons ago. The ledges are only 6-12 inches high and may be 25 to 50 yards wide. Each of those small drops are structural features that the fish use, you just have to figure out which one they are using. There are also small depressions and holes that exist that will hold fish, again,you have to find them.
The next biggest structural element is Bird island. It has the visable portion, but there are four (4) points that extend off of the visable portion. The North West and North East points are the shortest, with the South west extending about 50-75 yards out. The South East is the longest, extending out about 400+ yards. It is very easy to find with the lower unit of your engine.
Check out the Powells slough area north of the Provo Harbor also, lots of springs that hold fish in the hot summer time.
Good hunting !!!!
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Thanks for the suggestions. Looks like it's tiime to do some exploring.
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