Took out a kid from back east (Philly) who is the nephew of a friend of mine that is here for the summer for a chef internship. He loves to fish and hunt, and since he’s leaving in a week, was hopeful to get out and catch some fish. I gave him two choices - brook trout on dries in the Uintas or smallies and perch at Rockport. He chose Rockport - even though I did warm him of lots of smaller smalls. Rockport did not “Disappoint” in that fashion.
We got there a little after 7am and started fishing the rock outcrops on the west side of the lake. Picked up a number of 5-6” smallies and no perch. The wind was blowing about 12-15mph from the southeast, so we decided to hit the east side and maybe get some relief. Tried that cove that is just north of the end of the road in the SP. More smalls but did pick up a half dozen perch in the 8-9” range. Action died out there (and the wind switched again blowing into the cove from the west), so we pulled stakes and went over to Perch Point). Action was better there. Numerous perch - again in the 8-9” range, and both he and I got our best smallies of the trip - mine 15” and His slightly bigger at 16”. A storm blew in about 1pm and kicked us out, but all in all, a fun morning from the shore.
Best bait was a 1/8 oz unpainted jig head with a Yamamoto 4” Cinnamon with black fleck curly singletail jig bumped along the bottom (way too many lost in the rocks). Thank goodness I found some more or less “flat” bottom at Perch Point or the loss rate would have been worse. We caught some perch with jig/worm combos 3-5” below bobber too…but not many. Those dang little smallies (3-4”) right at the shoreline bit off numerous curly tails too. They were ever present!
We got there a little after 7am and started fishing the rock outcrops on the west side of the lake. Picked up a number of 5-6” smallies and no perch. The wind was blowing about 12-15mph from the southeast, so we decided to hit the east side and maybe get some relief. Tried that cove that is just north of the end of the road in the SP. More smalls but did pick up a half dozen perch in the 8-9” range. Action died out there (and the wind switched again blowing into the cove from the west), so we pulled stakes and went over to Perch Point). Action was better there. Numerous perch - again in the 8-9” range, and both he and I got our best smallies of the trip - mine 15” and His slightly bigger at 16”. A storm blew in about 1pm and kicked us out, but all in all, a fun morning from the shore.
Best bait was a 1/8 oz unpainted jig head with a Yamamoto 4” Cinnamon with black fleck curly singletail jig bumped along the bottom (way too many lost in the rocks). Thank goodness I found some more or less “flat” bottom at Perch Point or the loss rate would have been worse. We caught some perch with jig/worm combos 3-5” below bobber too…but not many. Those dang little smallies (3-4”) right at the shoreline bit off numerous curly tails too. They were ever present!
