10-22-2009, 01:17 PM
Fished with Dubob today. We launched around 7:45 at Cisco Beach. Trolled north and the first fish was a carp on a flatfish. The second fish......yep, another carp on a flatfish. Then the lakers kicked in. We fished all along the east side between South Eden and North Eden. All the lakers were caught in about 10' of water or less on flatlines about 150' behind the boat. Dubob took some pics and when he gets back from BL I hope he shares them. I ended up with one laker going over 14lbs on his scale. One other lakers I caught was tagged. I looked up the tag number and it was tagged by the UDWR from a gillnet on 10/17/1997. That's 12 years and 4 days before I caught it. We released it once again! The fish was marked with a left pelvic/adipose clip which indicated it came from eggs collected from lake trout at Bear Lake and stocked between 1985 & 1987. This would have made the fish between 23-25 years old. When it was tagged in 1997, it was 30" long. I would estimate that it really wasn't much longer than that. Anyway, we also picked up several pup-lakers in the 3-4 lb range too. Good day, flat calm, and great company on the water!
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