08-04-2010, 01:38 AM
Did a repeat with different family members on Utah Lake today. My wife and I took my son and my grandson. We just about had the Utah Lake State Park and Utah Lake all to ourselves today.
Carefully made some chicken liver balls out of cotton cheese cloth last evening, only to have them fall off of where I had them ready to go in my bait fridge so they got left home.[frown] That left us with minnows and crawlers.
Crawlers weren't working quite as well today and we also missed lots of bites with the large minnows that we had. We managed to catch a large white bass, which provided the best bait, by far, for us today.
Tried out some new special circle hooks that I ordered online from Cabela's, that were made especially for catfish. Not sure what to expect, but just less than 1/3 of the catfish still swallowed the circle hook (they all got invited home) and the others were nicely hooked in the corner of their mouths. Another great day of catching. Still nothing huge with the largest going just over 20 inches.
Had an interesting experience with the boat. Got the boat on the trailer and noticed a large stream of water coming out of the boat. Looked to see what was going on and somehow the bottom (the boat has two) hull plug had fallen out. Someone must have hooked the snap handle with their fishing line or perhaps the fishing net and dislodged it. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the boat floated fine with all of the water in the hull and we never noticed a drop of water inside of the boat. I have previously tried to find a 1/2 inch T handle type plug(which would be more secure) rather than the shap-handle type.
Now I need to get down there with some fishing buddies (rather than family members) so that I can reel in a catfish. In two trips I have personally landed one mud cat.
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Carefully made some chicken liver balls out of cotton cheese cloth last evening, only to have them fall off of where I had them ready to go in my bait fridge so they got left home.[frown] That left us with minnows and crawlers.
Crawlers weren't working quite as well today and we also missed lots of bites with the large minnows that we had. We managed to catch a large white bass, which provided the best bait, by far, for us today.
Tried out some new special circle hooks that I ordered online from Cabela's, that were made especially for catfish. Not sure what to expect, but just less than 1/3 of the catfish still swallowed the circle hook (they all got invited home) and the others were nicely hooked in the corner of their mouths. Another great day of catching. Still nothing huge with the largest going just over 20 inches.
Had an interesting experience with the boat. Got the boat on the trailer and noticed a large stream of water coming out of the boat. Looked to see what was going on and somehow the bottom (the boat has two) hull plug had fallen out. Someone must have hooked the snap handle with their fishing line or perhaps the fishing net and dislodged it. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that the boat floated fine with all of the water in the hull and we never noticed a drop of water inside of the boat. I have previously tried to find a 1/2 inch T handle type plug(which would be more secure) rather than the shap-handle type.
Now I need to get down there with some fishing buddies (rather than family members) so that I can reel in a catfish. In two trips I have personally landed one mud cat.
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