North end of Utah lake

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I wouldn't count on a huge fantastic run of big white bass this year. The majority of the big white bass were at the end of their 4 yr life cycle and peaked at 12 to 13 inches last year. By fall thousands appeared in the usual fall feeding runs at the usual places. Fishing was fantastic but a huge number were quite anorexic. Some were paper thin even. By winter they were even skinnier. I knew that pretty much all the big ones that were skinny would die before spring and that seems to be the case. Didn't catch more than two over 10 in out of the masses of 7-8 inchers that were at some secret deep spot out in the middle of the lake. Been fishing the walleye run hard and knew the walleye would be super gigantic with so many 7 in white bass throughout the entire lake. That was exactly the case, a mere 26 in walleye weighed in at 9lbs even. Plenty of faaat walleye. The last week a few whites have showed up. Sure enough, they are like 8 inches long still, that same year class 2yrs old this June. And yes unfortunately they are still skinny so don't think there will be very healthy egg formation this year. But all it takes is a couple females and there will be a decent year class even so. Each female white can lay up to a million eggs so it doesn't take many successful females to fill all available habitat and feed themselves and the walleye. Hopefully the lake won't go too low this summer or we will have real issues with a down cycle. Here's a 27 1/4in 9 lb 7oz.
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