Lincoln update

[Boatloadakids]

Decided to give Lincoln one more try with my boat. Managed to launch and load without too much trouble. There were 3 or 4 other boats launched plus Ice Sled's puddle jumper. Launching can be tricky if you drop off the end of the launch. I made a skid plate for my trailer and with a little grunt from my 4x4 I can pop my loaded trailer right out. The water is about a foot deep in the channel. I used my outboard and made it out without much of a mud trail. If the water continues to drop, as it surely will, launching will not be possible much longer. It looks like the courtesy dock is sitting on the mud bottom.

There was a DWR crew that launch and was up to something somewhere on the lake. I drove around past the orchards Monday to show sweet wife where the fire burn was. Just past the orchards there was a 15-20 ft. long circular net with floating anchors angling out from it. Dunno what it was but it was not a fisherman's set line. I suspect the DWR guys are up to something out there.

The algae bloom Tube Dude referenced is upon us big time. Slimy green film on the water all thru the launch and a couple hundred yards out southward toward SF river. Bad stuff and probably just getting started.

Fishing was slower than times past. Caught the usual 26 1/2 incher and several in the 24-26 inch crowd. Didn't get a chance to see how Ice Sled did but suspect he probably found more 30+ inchers. The 30 inch cats have evaded me all summer. Still, I remain undaunted in my pursuit... just a matter of time... and water.

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[MSM1970]

Those cats must starting to sleep during the day now for as warm as the water is getting, just looked at provo on the live camera [url "https://video.nest.com/live/wFZqex"]https://video.nest.com/live/wFZqex[/url] you can see the bloom real well, looks like we have find another way out there, there is still boat in provo and it looks like they have the jet boat from green river there now,

I'm sure you will find one, might have to wait till this fall and just walk out and grab him[cool]
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]No icebergs today. Right?

I might have to put auxiliary wheels on my float tube.

Either that or wait a couple of weeks and go chasing the fish across dry ground. I hate it when the catfish are wearing track shoes.
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[ice_sled]

No 30" today not even close! Guess I just got to set my standards higher😊. Want to maybe do the night shift this weekend.
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[Piscophilic]

And I thought walking catfish were bad!
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]Probably a good plan to go Ninja...after dark. There will be a full moon on the 20th but that doesn't do much more than give the skeeters a more visible target. However, I have found that the best shot for big cats is at night...from about mid July through most of August. But once the temps start dropping in September the fish will go back on the day shift. That is, if there is any water left.
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[TubeDude]

[quote Piscophilic]And I thought walking catfish were bad![/quote]

[#0000FF]Sprinters are worse.

Like the 3-legged chickens developed by Colonel Sanders. Sadly they never became a big hit because nobody could catch them.
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[Boatloadakids]

A parliamentary point of order please:

I make a motion to suspend Tube Dude's posting privileges for a period of 24 hours for advancing bad jokes; to wit: "catfish wearing track shoes" and "3-legged chickens." Do I hear a second?
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]I second that...but make it a month or so. I need to go fishing more.
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[MisterCompletely]

I've been wondering if Lindon boat harbor still has enough water to launch. Then once a guy got out onto the lake, maybe motate down to the Knolls, Lincoln Beach, or Bird Island, etc.
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[MSM1970]

I have been watching provo harbor looks like there still launching, going to see I can manage Saturday morning.

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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]Getting pretty skinny in all the harbors. But from what I am hearing there is 6" to 1' more water in Provo Harbor than Lindon.

I launched my tube in Lindon just about a month ago and was kicking the bottom with my fins in places on the way out. Sonar showed just over 2' average...and it has dropped a foot or so since then.

If your plan is to run elsewhere Provo is probably your best gamble. Virtually all the boats fishing Bird Island are coming from Provo. Haven't heard anything from the Knolls. But there is some good depth off the rock point...if you don't run aground going around Goose Point.
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[Stickleback]

Lindon dredged out the channel a couple weeks ago. It is still shallow from the ramp to the channel but the channel was over 3 feet deep. I am still seeing some bigger boats full of kids and bigger kids getting out but they all leave a mud trail to the channel. I have been having some success out about 500 yards in really deep water. 4 to 6 feet.

I took a friend and his daughter out Saturday night. They had never been fishing. His first cat was 29 inches. That would have bumped my score a bit. We knocked the dust out of his gills and put him back.

Good luck getting in the water.
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[Boatloadakids]

There is still a foot or so of water at Lincoln and boats are still launching. I have been out every day this week (it's the cataholicism) and boats that are bigger than my 17 foot Tracker are launching every day. Saw a big boat loaded with kids launch this morning.

I've been at the island a couple of times this week and there are boats there that could only have launched at Provo. The water depth from LB launch to Bird Island is a consistent 6 ft. deep all the way. Years past the depths have been better than 8 feet. What will it look like by October?? I hope it doesn't drop to the one foot average depth it was when Tube Dude fished it in 1930. []

I have fished Lincoln almost every day all summer and have yet to catch a kittie that would make 27 inches. I fished with Tube Dude a few weeks past and he abused me by hauling in a 30 incher in the area I had fished for weeks -- no shame there, he catches fish where there ain't no fish. Then my g-son catches a 30 incher from the shore -- more humiliation. Now tomorrow I'm going out with Pisco and if he hauls in a 30+ incher I'm gonna pack up the poles, sell the boat, enter rehab and when I have the cataholicism beaten I will take a good look at golf or maybe bowling to occupy my retirement time. Then again, if the low water concentrates all the catfish into one small pond maybe I can still beat the 26 1/2 mark. I guess I'll just keep trying. Tomorrow is the day....

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[MisterCompletely]

Thanks guys for all that good info. I think I'll launch at Provo and boogie over to the island, and maybe even poke around a little at the knolls. I really don't have the cojones to launch at Lincoln. I hadn't seen that webcam of Provo harbor before, that's a good one.
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