07-03-2003, 07:28 AM
I got off work early today and headed up to Jordanelle with my dad at about 5:00 pm. We started right accross from the Hailstone docks, and I hooked 2 perch on my first four casts. I was using a spinner. After that, we went up to the inlet where the Provo River comes in. We fished on both sides near shore and in the middle. We caught around 25 perch in that time on spinners, small rattle traps, small plastic jigs and basically anything that imitated a small minnow. The best colors were white and root beer jigs. I was disappointed that I did not hook any smallmouth bass. I don't know what I was doing wrong. The perch really are everywhere. They hit my lure on nearly every cast, though they were hard to hook, even when I had tiny jigs on that they could take.
Some of you will also be very interested to know that we hooked three walleye. I didn't know that there were walleye in Jordanelle. Two of them were very small, around 7 inches, and hit jigs that were about half their length. One looked like it was a fish from last year, and weighed between a pound and 2 pounds. Should I call the dwr about this? Do they know that walleye have been illegally planted in Jordanelle? Or did they plant the walleye when they found out there were perch in the lake?
Also, any tips on catching the smallmouth bass would be greatly appreciated. I was pretty frustrated to not catch any of those, because they are my favorite to cathc, and I did the same things that have generally worked there before. The lake seems to be infested with perch. Maybe we all need to keep limits so the lake doesn't get overrun by them.
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Some of you will also be very interested to know that we hooked three walleye. I didn't know that there were walleye in Jordanelle. Two of them were very small, around 7 inches, and hit jigs that were about half their length. One looked like it was a fish from last year, and weighed between a pound and 2 pounds. Should I call the dwr about this? Do they know that walleye have been illegally planted in Jordanelle? Or did they plant the walleye when they found out there were perch in the lake?
Also, any tips on catching the smallmouth bass would be greatly appreciated. I was pretty frustrated to not catch any of those, because they are my favorite to cathc, and I did the same things that have generally worked there before. The lake seems to be infested with perch. Maybe we all need to keep limits so the lake doesn't get overrun by them.
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