04-28-2020, 06:08 PM
There are an increasing number of Utah Lake cataholics who lust after the bigguns. But even those most in the know have plenty of days having to settle for "average" sized fish and not hooking anything with real shoulders. My own experience has been that I have hooked my biggest fish right in the middle of catching some of the smaller ones. And I have never been successful at targeting strictly the big fish and not catching any smaller ones. Big ones will sometimes slurp smaller baits and smaller fish will often munch the largest baits you can toss out there.
I have some pet theories about how to increase the odds...at different times of the year...but none of them prove out often enough to be considered fool-proof. So I swallow my pride and accept battle with all comers...hoping that there will be at least one or two "immovable objects" on my day's worth of hooksets. But it's always a good idea to rig at least one rod with a bigger and juicier bait than that on your other rod. And then accept it when the biggest fish of the day smacks a small jig you are throwing for white bass. It happens.
I have some pet theories about how to increase the odds...at different times of the year...but none of them prove out often enough to be considered fool-proof. So I swallow my pride and accept battle with all comers...hoping that there will be at least one or two "immovable objects" on my day's worth of hooksets. But it's always a good idea to rig at least one rod with a bigger and juicier bait than that on your other rod. And then accept it when the biggest fish of the day smacks a small jig you are throwing for white bass. It happens.