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**SkunkedAgain** · (This post was last modified: 07-22-2024, 01:37 PM by SkunkedAgain.)

(07-19-2024, 08:31 PM)gmwahl Wrote: Thanks Jeff, that helps. I might just try my old fashioned method of trolling with dipsy divers so that I can send them out to the sides. Sounds like keeper sizes though. Last ones I caught out of there were 10".

Mike

You're welcome, and I must have been fishing there about the same time as your last trip. The 10-11"ers didn't make the trip worth while. But these are a little better, hope you get a chance to go catch a few... good luck.. Jeff

(07-20-2024, 12:17 PM)Bduck Wrote: Thanks Jeff, for getting thru your post. The pig is a fun lake to play and catching adds to it. I went thru several postings lost and like you I would get frustrated. I found a way to cure that by hitting the "save as draft" tab below as I went along creating those longer posts. Then you can go back into "edit draft" as need to continue draft & post. I'm sure there are others here on this forum get pissed off too for losing their posts.

Thanks for the tip, I hadn't noticed the draft deal, so Ill have to use it more often... My problem is I'm dumb enough to think it won't happen to me... I'll just hurry and be okay... Don't know how many posts I've lost in the past, but it wasn't just a few, so I should be smart enough to know it's going to happen...Thanks for this option, I'll look into it... Jeff

(07-20-2024, 01:36 PM)dubob Wrote:  Some (most?) of you will find this tedious, but here's what I do for longer post messages. I construct them in MS Word first, then edit and correct spelling, grammar, etc. Then cut and paste into BFT or another forum group as necessary. The plus side is that MS Word saves the document as you write it and I have not lost one that I can recall. The con side is that it takes a few more keystrokes to cut & paste after your done writing. But I doubt you will ever lose another post because BFT messed up or you inadvertently hit a wrong key. I built this post in Word and then cut and posted it on BFT. Easy, peasy.

Unfortunately, the transfer also carries all of the word formatting shown highlighted above and you will have to select that and delete it before posting. But you won't lose those long postings that frustrate you. If deleting the formatting carried forward is too much of a PITA, you can also write up your post in Word Pad or some other text app that doesn't have all that formatting attached to it, but the edit functions like spell check and grammar are mostly gone.

Tight lines everybody.

Hey Bob,
You are very correct on the smartest way to do the post, like mentioned above I'm not always the smartest, but maybe I have a chance to learn to be a little smarter... At least on the longer posts... Thanks Jeff

(07-21-2024, 08:01 PM)PACKFAN Wrote:
(07-19-2024, 02:40 PM)SkunkedAgain Wrote: Man I hate this forum at times... Was just finishing a fairly good write up and it froze up and lost the whole post... now the motivation to make a good post is gone, so, sorry you just get the readers digest version...

Wednesday I took my SIL and his pop up to Porcupine, we had a little mishap on the way..... Someone I can't mention might have left his bimini top up for a couple miles before I remembered and by the time I looked, it was tore off and flying like a kite behind... haven't had time to see how bad I tore it up, but do know I broke all the attachment hardware and straps, so I'll have a fix needed....

Anyway, the road up to the launch is rough and narrow when towing an 18' boat, but launch was okay... I had the lucky rod to start and after catching 5 bows, 14.5" was my best, I passed the rod to my SIL... He continued the streak and caught 3 bows and a koke, then he passed the rod to his pop, who got a koke to finish our day... For some reason one of my lead core set ups was the only rod that would catch fish... We fished another lead core set up and the down rigger and could only get fish on that one rod... Sad part is that rod is so heavy duty that these fish could hardly be felt, it was way too heavy for smallish fish, but I couldn't figure out how to get the light line setups to work for us... Fun day with only a few kayaks and toons out fishing with us, but the paddle boards and swimmers really rolled in about 11:00, so we cleared out at 12:00.... Might have had something to do with no functional bimini top and too much sunshine... Later J
How is the electric motor working out for you, I havent fished porcupine for probably 10 years or more after the kokes were getting so small I started fishing them back in 1976 when i got stationed here. My kids grew up camping and fishing there before idiots started turning it into a dump and left trash all over. Sure miss those years.

(07-22-2024, 02:02 AM)BearLakeFishGuy Wrote: Porcupine has been great to me this year. I've fished it three times for kokanee. 14, 16, and 18 fish on each trip. I was reluctant to post until someone else did. Best fishing was VERY early morning until about 9:30-10am. 30' down (probably deeper now) and about 50 feet behind the ball. Squids and dodgers. Fish aren't huge (12-14" but perfect for smoking and eating. A football player from USU drowned up there on Saturday.

Hey Scott, I debated on posting or not as well, but been so long since I've been fishing it was the only trip I had to post about all summer, so hope I didn't cause too much harm increasing pressure up there...

I seen that deal for the football player, man that is terrible... When I was there, there were probably 20 youth swimming and paddle boarding over to the cliff to jump off... Crazy kids, I used to be dumb enough to think it was fun to get hammered by the water slap as you jump off of too high of cliffs... I think I've learned better by now, but it used to be fun going with friends and doing such stuff... Feel bad for the friends and family of the guy that didn't come up... That's a Sad

deal how a fun day turns so bad and he probably didn't even feel a threat at the time... I have family that come up each summer and love to jump off the bridges and laugh at me when I tell them to wear a lifejacket... Guess I'm a fuddy duddy, but better to be over safe than not come up... I know they can swim great and all when they are conscious, but what happens if they get knocked out???

Anyway, sounds like you're having a great summer and getting out to lots of spots and catching some fish... Must be great to be on the retirement time schedule.. I'm jealous and hope I can be there sometime before too long... Later Jeff...

(07-22-2024, 03:19 AM)brookie Wrote:
(07-22-2024, 02:02 AM)BearLakeFishGuy Wrote: Porcupine has been great to me this year. I've fished it three times for kokanee. 14, 16, and 18 fish on each trip. I was reluctant to post until someone else did. Best fishing was VERY early morning until about 9:30-10am. 30' down (probably deeper now) and about 50 feet behind the ball. Squids and dodgers. Fish aren't huge (12-14" but perfect for smoking and eating. A football player from USU drowned up there on Saturday.

Not that I ever fish Porcupine, but I have a question. Why the 50' set back? I fish regularly for kokanee on other waters. When they are on the surface, I use long setbacks, sometimes longer than 50'. However when I find the fish 25' or deeper I usually shorten the setbacks as I do not see the fish show boat shyness. Fished Jordanelle, twice this last week and Flaming Gorge once. Fish were 35+ feet deep. I used 10 and 15' setbacks with great success. I'm not questioning your success, just wondering the theory behind the long line. Seems it increases the tangle likelihood.

You bring up a very good question, I typically use a short setback to avoid the snag/tangle issues, but I followed the discussion last year with all the new side finders and livescopes showing how the fish were scattering around the boats and I think they recommended the longer setbacks and we fished shorter on this trip and didn't catch a fish on that rod, so I think I'll try longer next trip just to see what happens... If i fish alone I can try this a little easier than when I have multiple rods all fishing at the same time... Too much chance to tangle up if it doesn't work.. I'd like to hear what others have found on this topic... Lter Jeff

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