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Has and body hit the north end of the lake around AF boat harbor if so where did u find the fish I was down there last Sunday fished the waste ditch and the bubble hit a few kitties at the waste ditch but it was super slow heading down in the morning to try it again any help
Would be appreciated I'm open to other areas of the lake the north end is just closest to my place thanks
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I'm not sure what you mean by the waste ditch but if you mean battle creek that runs past the dump, it is closed until the first Saturday in May.
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The waste ditch he speaks of would be AF River. Yes it barley has a trickle running down it right now. As it warms up there will be more water in the river..
A few kitties are being taken close to the inlet of the harbor White Bass and blue gills are being taken close to the docks as well as the inlet But I am not sure if your able to fish the inlet as of yet.
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"The waste ditch he speaks of would be AF River."
[cool][#0000FF]The waste water inflow...from the sewage treatment plant...is in between American Fork and Lindon harbors. It can be hard to find if you don't know where it comes in through the phragmites and reeds. But when it is flowing it usually attracts lots of white bass and the predators that feed on them.[/#0000FF]
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Wow. How come I can't seem to catch a bluegill out of Lindon OR AF harbors? Weird.
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The cats are shallow (at least at the south end) we have been pounding them in about a foot of water near the frags. This would be a perfect time for bank fisherman with waders to have a blast in the shallows.
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[quote TubeDude]"The waste ditch he speaks of would be AF River."
[cool][#0000ff]The waste water inflow...from the sewage treatment plant..[/#0000ff]
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mmmmm- seeeewaaaage treatment. Yummmmm!
makes me wanna drive the 3 hours to try that shit! (oops, shouldna said that!)
There's a brown river outflow from the Cache Valley "square ponds" - have always been curious if it holds up cats-n-carp. But - think I'd play it C&R...
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Thanks for all the input I went down yesterday and went west of the AF boat harbor we fished shallow it the phragmites and did fair caught 4 decent size channels and a pile of mud cats as well as a carp kept for future bait so I think it's starting to turn on. Does any body know when the white bass start running heavy?
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[cool][#0000FF]White bass spawn when the water temp gets about 65. They start schooling up and running up the rivers usually about this time of year and in most years the spawn is sometime around the middle of May and into the first of June if it stays cooler.
Water temps should hit 60 by this week and then we will have some reports of good whitie action from American Fork and Lindon Harbors...and at places around Lincoln Beach. But they will spawn all along rocky shoreline and off the outside wave-washed dikes of all the harbors. It can also be good around the outside of reed beds and along rocky shorelines on both sides of Goshen Bay.
The temperature of the water will be affected by wind direction and speed, depth, which direction the shore faces (south facing shorelines warm faster), etc. It also gets warmer faster and stays warmer inside harbors so often there can be good whitie fishing inside before it gets good outside. Every year is different.
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Thanks for the info and the pic tubedude I generally fish the goshen Bay Area but I am trying to get mor familiar with the north end of the lake as it is quite a bit closer to home
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I wouldn't count on a huge fantastic run of big white bass this year. The majority of the big white bass were at the end of their 4 yr life cycle and peaked at 12 to 13 inches last year. By fall thousands appeared in the usual fall feeding runs at the usual places. Fishing was fantastic but a huge number were quite anorexic. Some were paper thin even. By winter they were even skinnier. I knew that pretty much all the big ones that were skinny would die before spring and that seems to be the case. Didn't catch more than two over 10 in out of the masses of 7-8 inchers that were at some secret deep spot out in the middle of the lake. Been fishing the walleye run hard and knew the walleye would be super gigantic with so many 7 in white bass throughout the entire lake. That was exactly the case, a mere 26 in walleye weighed in at 9lbs even. Plenty of faaat walleye. The last week a few whites have showed up. Sure enough, they are like 8 inches long still, that same year class 2yrs old this June. And yes unfortunately they are still skinny so don't think there will be very healthy egg formation this year. But all it takes is a couple females and there will be a decent year class even so. Each female white can lay up to a million eggs so it doesn't take many successful females to fill all available habitat and feed themselves and the walleye. Hopefully the lake won't go too low this summer or we will have real issues with a down cycle. Here's a 27 1/4in 9 lb 7oz.
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I am not sure what your problem is with catching Bluegills from the AF harbor docks. 2 weeks ago they were pulling them in. Yesterday a few were taken from the docks. as for Lindon harbor. I cant tell you I don't fish much over there.
TubeDude ... Sorry I went the other way. I don't go to far east of the Af harbor I usually go between AF harbor and the pumps. Caught some nice kitties yesterday from 18" to 24 My son caught some nice ones as well from 16" to 28"...
Total caught and released 20.
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