08-17-2023, 02:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-17-2023, 02:37 PM by Piscophilic.)
Jon and I did an afternoon trip to Utah Lake State Park. Air temp in the 80’s and the water almost 80. The trip started out routine, but ended with a bunch of white bass, a couple great channel cats and several accidental twists and turns.
We started off at the dock at about 2 P.M. Boats everywhere, but the bait didn’t seem to mind.
https://youtu.be/LmSrbgqt55U
We got to the area we wanted to fish and tried to catch an adult white bass and the first accident happened.
https://youtu.be/LFefTNPkueA
We rigged rods with weights and treble hooks trying to retrieve what was lost and ended up with several surprising catches.
https://youtu.be/erHKwQtcNAM
Since we were catching fish on bare hooks, I suggested we add a small chunk of WB to one of the hooks. The result was an accidental white bass whackdown.
https://youtu.be/tQ_NLWLlCLE
More than 2 hours and 80 plus white bass later I told Jon I was going to fan cast around the boat 1 more time and if I didn’t catch the rod, we would call it a loss and go catfishing. Guess what happened!
https://youtu.be/SKy-2AnY0gM
We had been putting all the white bass into the landing net so we didn’t have to walk back and forth to the live well. We headed out catfishing and the first one we hooked was the best of the year so far. We needed the net so the WB got dumped in a pile on the floor.
https://youtu.be/sKhxRyTb60c
It was a crazy day full of ups and downs, surprises and lots of fish. We caught 15 YOY white bass, lost a rod, caught a carp and white a white bass on a bare hook. Then we added bait and ended up with over 90 adult WB. We caught the lost rod and then 8 channel cats including 3 from 10-13 lbs.
What a ride!
We started off at the dock at about 2 P.M. Boats everywhere, but the bait didn’t seem to mind.
https://youtu.be/LmSrbgqt55U
We got to the area we wanted to fish and tried to catch an adult white bass and the first accident happened.
https://youtu.be/LFefTNPkueA
We rigged rods with weights and treble hooks trying to retrieve what was lost and ended up with several surprising catches.
https://youtu.be/erHKwQtcNAM
Since we were catching fish on bare hooks, I suggested we add a small chunk of WB to one of the hooks. The result was an accidental white bass whackdown.
https://youtu.be/tQ_NLWLlCLE
More than 2 hours and 80 plus white bass later I told Jon I was going to fan cast around the boat 1 more time and if I didn’t catch the rod, we would call it a loss and go catfishing. Guess what happened!
https://youtu.be/SKy-2AnY0gM
We had been putting all the white bass into the landing net so we didn’t have to walk back and forth to the live well. We headed out catfishing and the first one we hooked was the best of the year so far. We needed the net so the WB got dumped in a pile on the floor.
https://youtu.be/sKhxRyTb60c
It was a crazy day full of ups and downs, surprises and lots of fish. We caught 15 YOY white bass, lost a rod, caught a carp and white a white bass on a bare hook. Then we added bait and ended up with over 90 adult WB. We caught the lost rod and then 8 channel cats including 3 from 10-13 lbs.
What a ride!