04-25-2016, 08:47 PM
Despite the threat of weather I took a trip Sunday morning to Jordanelle. The water is much lower than I remember seeing it (it's been a while). But there's still plenty to launch a boat (at least from the Hailstone area).
It was pretty cold, still mostly sub-50 degree water, except in a few shallow back bays where I saw as high as 53. I didn't try for bass; I figure it's still too cold for them.
After cruising around a few areas I found some fish, and dropped down a perch/gold spoon, and immediately had a fish on, but it popped off just feet from the surface. I tried various techniques with various spoons, rapalas, and tubes, no luck.
While cruising back I found a seemingly random spot in over 100 FOW that produced 4 smallish trout on a greenish/gold kastmaster (small, don't know the exact size). After a few laps through the area it dried up - only a couple more hits but nothing that stuck.
I fished from 7:30 to 11:30, and it was pretty slow overall.
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It was pretty cold, still mostly sub-50 degree water, except in a few shallow back bays where I saw as high as 53. I didn't try for bass; I figure it's still too cold for them.
After cruising around a few areas I found some fish, and dropped down a perch/gold spoon, and immediately had a fish on, but it popped off just feet from the surface. I tried various techniques with various spoons, rapalas, and tubes, no luck.
While cruising back I found a seemingly random spot in over 100 FOW that produced 4 smallish trout on a greenish/gold kastmaster (small, don't know the exact size). After a few laps through the area it dried up - only a couple more hits but nothing that stuck.
I fished from 7:30 to 11:30, and it was pretty slow overall.
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