utah lake cat info?

[Tin-Can]

There are an increasing number of Utah Lake cataholics who lust after the bigguns.  But even those most in the know have plenty of days having to settle for "average" sized fish and not hooking anything with real shoulders.  My own experience has been that I have hooked my biggest fish right in the middle of catching some of the smaller ones.  And I have never been successful at targeting strictly the big fish and not catching any smaller ones.  Big ones will sometimes slurp smaller baits and smaller fish will often munch the largest baits you can toss out there.

I have some pet theories about how to increase the odds...at different times of the year...but none of them prove out often enough to be considered fool-proof.  So I swallow my pride and accept battle with all comers...hoping that there will be at least one or two "immovable objects" on my day's worth of hooksets.  But it's always a good idea to rig at least one rod with a bigger and juicier bait than that on your other rod.  And then accept it when the biggest fish of the day smacks a small jig you are throwing for white bass.  It happens.

That  "biggest fish of the day smacks a small jig you are throwing for white bass"  is the aweful truth   Has happened to me at UL more times than I care to count...........like last Saturday. 6lb mono on a med-lite pole with a small yellow flig and a piece of worm, fan casting for the first hour or so..........nada.  Set the pole in the holder with drag loose, pick up my coffee thermos and -out goes the line screamin and strippin..... and then whatever was on it turned and headed back towards me. Could hardly reel fast enough. Got the slack out of the line about 3 feet from the boat, rod bent over almost double, and SNAP. Line broke 
Sure got the blood pumping for a few minutes