06-29-2017, 09:57 PM
My 12 year old son loves to fish. I love to fish, but he REALLY loves to fish. He has been bugging me for a bit to take him out to Utah Lake and try for those 36 inch Catfish that everyone on this site are always talking about. He has been asking me for quite a while to take him.
So I read a bunch on this site to see what I needed to do. I read TubeDude's catfish article that was a wealth of information and I looked through a bunch of other posts to see what I could figure out. My son had caught a couple of white bass there last week when the rest of us were playing on the Kayaks so we took those for bait and some hot-dogs that a neighbor friend suggested we try.
We headed out this morning and right when I got to Lindon Harbor I realized I forgot my boat key. Luckily I only live 15 minutes away. 30 minutes later I was on the water. I met up with my neighbor south of the bubbleup and after a short instruction on how to thread the dogs on a treble hook we et down an anchor 50 yards from him and started to fish.
Wow. My kids are addicted. We fished from 7:30 to 11 and just stopped counting how many we caught. It was so much fun. The cats would take the hotdogs or the white bass meat and it was a blast watching the smaller kids reels them in. My 8 year old daughter caught the biggest fish of the day and the biggest fish in our family now. She was sure that it was one of those 36 inchers that I have told her are in UL, but when we got home and measured it it was 26 inches. Still beat out the 24 inch rainbow that my son pulled out of Highland Glen pond a couple of years ago.
Tonight we are trying to fry some up (thanks TD for the recipe) and tomorrow we will put some in the smoker and then see what way we like to eat them best.
A big thanks to my neighbor if he reads this thread and to all of you who have given a little bit of information here and there about catfishing in Utah Lake. The experience was great and my kids are already asking when we can go back.
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So I read a bunch on this site to see what I needed to do. I read TubeDude's catfish article that was a wealth of information and I looked through a bunch of other posts to see what I could figure out. My son had caught a couple of white bass there last week when the rest of us were playing on the Kayaks so we took those for bait and some hot-dogs that a neighbor friend suggested we try.
We headed out this morning and right when I got to Lindon Harbor I realized I forgot my boat key. Luckily I only live 15 minutes away. 30 minutes later I was on the water. I met up with my neighbor south of the bubbleup and after a short instruction on how to thread the dogs on a treble hook we et down an anchor 50 yards from him and started to fish.
Wow. My kids are addicted. We fished from 7:30 to 11 and just stopped counting how many we caught. It was so much fun. The cats would take the hotdogs or the white bass meat and it was a blast watching the smaller kids reels them in. My 8 year old daughter caught the biggest fish of the day and the biggest fish in our family now. She was sure that it was one of those 36 inchers that I have told her are in UL, but when we got home and measured it it was 26 inches. Still beat out the 24 inch rainbow that my son pulled out of Highland Glen pond a couple of years ago.
Tonight we are trying to fry some up (thanks TD for the recipe) and tomorrow we will put some in the smoker and then see what way we like to eat them best.
A big thanks to my neighbor if he reads this thread and to all of you who have given a little bit of information here and there about catfishing in Utah Lake. The experience was great and my kids are already asking when we can go back.
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