Birthday Fishin Utah Lake and the Lower Provo River 12-12

[EvilTyeDyeTwin]

Being the big 23rd b-day, I chose to fish my 2 favorite styles, ice fishing and river fishing. Went down to the American Fork Harbor to see if I could get some whities to sing happy birthday to me. All the locals were claiming the fishing was terrible as I was schooching across the ice. Not convinced by their down trodden attitudes I made 3 cranks with the auger and dropped my gear into the water. Soon I got the 1st white bass of the day. BAM then another....and another. In 1 hour I had 11 white bass, a couple of which were big enough that I could not get my hand around their girth. The locals were impressed with my success, I was not. Something about catching 121 a couple of days before must have interferd with my thought process. As I left the locals swarmed my ice hole like seaguls on the kill for scraps.

Wanting to be able to keep any fish I happened to hook into I fished below the diversion dam in Provo Canyon. At the park I hooked into 2 nice browns..1 of which flopped its way to freedom on the bank. Moved down the river exploring the treasure spots on my way down. Lost several nice fish in the fast current. Those browns sure can barrel roll. From a bridge I watched a brown digging a redd. Threw my lure at it and watched the fish bite and shake it off....then go back to what it was doing. At the base of the canyon I found a nice big hole. Threw my spinner only to watch a brown follow it to my hiding spot, and once it got a look at my ugly mug it took off for the current...personally I can't blame it for doing so. Down climbed a 5ft ledge, bushwacked through some thorns, and got 2 browns for my troubles. Amazing how a 12 inch brown can feel like a river monster in a current. At dark I had to call it quits due to time. Ended up with 4 Browns caught, and 8 lost on the reel in.

At Utah Lake I was using a horizontal silver sparkle lure made by TubeDude tipped with a nightcrawler. At the provo river I used a silver bladed, grey and black boddied Roostertail spinner in size 1/8. Tried using a floating Brown Trout Rapala with no luck.

A 13 inch White Bass at Utah Lake


The famous ice, rod, reel, and fish shot of another White Bass


The trail to the honey holes


A Provo River Brown Trout


Late fall on the provo...one of the best times of year on that river.


A dirty Brown Trout

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[LurkinLizard]

Happy b-day, ETDT and TDT. May you have many more happy ones!

PS--we haven't had too much luck at the Provo lately...maybe should try again. Sounds like your day wasn't half bad!
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[EvilTyeDyeTwin]

[quote LurkinLizard]

PS--we haven't had too much luck at the Provo lately...maybe should try again. Sounds like your day wasn't half bad![/quote]

At the provo the only time I hooked into fish was in places where I had to bushwack and hide from the trouts sight. Not the easiest fishing but it was well worth it.
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[LurkinLizard]

[quote EvilTyeDyeTwin]
At the provo the only time I hooked into fish was in places where I had to bushwack and hide from the trouts sight. Not the easiest fishing but it was well worth it.[/quote]

Sounds like it! [cool] Maybe we'll see you there sometime!
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