Utah Lake Pumphouse 12/3

[twinkielk15]

The storm has got the fish completely turned off. I fished the pumphouse from 7am to 9am with one bite. The guys all around me combined for maybe five fish, all white bass from what I could tell. I then went over to AF and Lindon harbors with the same results.
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[utefisherman]

Ugh!! I hope this is a lie to keep the crowds away tomorrow. I fished it last night for 45 minutes where a I spent most of my time fixing my 2 y/o son's line and I still pulled in 10 white bass. Were you in the channel, the pump house, or somewhere else? If the fishing has been spooked I may pack my gear and hit mill meadow. Oh boy what to do!!!
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[Darn0]

I also fished the pumphouse area this mourning from 7-12. This fishing was good for white bass earlier on, then the bluegill wanted to play. The fishing wasn't nowhere as fast as two days, but it still was some action going. Used sonars and spoons with wax worm or perch meat earlier on, then went to small jigs with waxies as the day went on.
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[FishKillr]

Bummer. It looks like there is still some around. It is not that the WB population of the lake will be hurt at all by harvesting 300 fish, but the population in an area can be trashed for a few days at least...if not more because of it.
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[fish_fear_me2]

I think the activity sometimes puts the fish off. Might want to hit some of tha harbors where there are not so many people concentrated in such a small area. With augers goin, sleds moving, and all the other noise people make on the ice a small area can be spooked off for awhile. I have fished where I was catching fish steadily and then a few of my new best friends showed up drilling holes stomping around to warm their feet etc and the bite turned completely off. Remember Utah lake is shallow you are fishing in 3-8 feet of water not 18-40 feet of water.
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[twinkielk15]

Good points on the action turning them off sometimes in the shallow water. I'm used to Fish Lake and there's not much that'll turn them off in over 100 feet. I can't wait for the ice down there.

I fished in the channel today. People already had other spots pretty well nailed down when I got there. Seemed like the most success was being had right out on the edge where the channel opens into the lake.
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[FishKillr]

Yeah, I understand that. UL had TONS of White Bass, but they can get picky if 300-1000 of their brothers are taken up by noisy people out of the same 100Sq Feet of water. I think it will be fine in a few days...people may have to look a bit more, and walk a little more, but they will be found.
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[odthefly]

Fished the pumphouse this morning as well. Met Darno(good to meet BFTacklers) Had some action. Certainly not like reported in previous days 300. There was a guy next to me that must had landed 100-150 whiteys. For a while he was pulling them in right and left. Caught some whiteys, perch and bluegills.
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[Darn0]

Hey it was nice to meet you too. I thought the action was decent, and besides that it was good to fish with fellow Bfters. I had a good time watching you run from pole to pole.
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[uintakoji]

It was nice you guys there this morning. It just kept getting for me as the day went on. The middle of the day was insane right nex to the building. Thinner ice there though...be careful.
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[odthefly]

You to uintakoji. Hopefully we will get together again some time. Good fishing with you guys
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[Darn0]

It was nice fishing with you guys too. It seems like the bluegil bite was just picking up when I was leaving, but I had enough action for the day.
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[Springbuck]

Similar for me. A few white bass, a few perch and a good handful of bluegills. I fished from 10:30 or so to 2:30, all on small jigs. The perch were about 9-10" and I was hoping to stay into em, but only pulled 3 out. Bluegills all sizes from small-ish to pretty nice, +8". A few guys got into the WB out in the channel, but nothing like the pics from a few days ago, and the action came and went.
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[Fin-S-Fish]

No lies at all haha. Those white bass are gone! I'm surprised it lasted two days in a row. I'm sure the fishing didn't even put a dent into that school, that was the biggest school I've seen in at least a decade. This high water reeeeallly increased their numbers. I also don't buy into that theory that angling activity spooked them out. There is one thing you have to understand about white bass.......highly migratory lol. If there is one consistent pattern about white bass it's here today gone tomorrow. If you have great unbelievable success on one day, chances are about 90% that the next day the same spot will be DEAD as hell. Have seen that more times than I can count over the years of fishing for them. That goes for both summer and winter. Sure I have some patterns, but it takes instinct to time it right. Went on exactly the right day luckily enough this year. Managed two days in a row of doing no more than lowering anything down the hole, I mean anything, there was no time for jigging, as soon as it got even sometimes 3 ft under the ice, it was clobbered. You could almost wiggle your finger in the hole while holding a hook LOL.

I'm also fairly certain that unless one specific weather pattern arises, this could be the end for this year for those kinda numbers. Here is a lousy cell phone pic for you to enjoy.

[Fin-S-Fish]

The pic did not show up for some reason. 2nd try.
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[FSBO_SLAYER]

That's strange. I also fished UL yesterday on 12/3. I had to move around to find them. When I did find them I couldn't keep the white bass off my line. Must have been the fishing pressure where you were.
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[americanforkdude]

I would have to agree with you for the most part. In the winter the fish are very migratory and you can never count on a steady day through the ice. However, in the summer they concentrate in all the same areas. I'm sure there's others that are scattered throughout the lake but deffinately bulk together and are usually always in the same spot in summer.
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[WyomingMoose]

[quote Fin-S-Fish]No lies at all haha. Those white bass are gone! I'm surprised it lasted two days in a row. I'm sure the fishing didn't even put a dent into that school, that was the biggest school I've seen in at least a decade. This high water reeeeallly increased their numbers. I also don't buy into that theory that angling activity spooked them out. There is one thing you have to understand about white bass.......highly migratory lol. If there is one consistent pattern about white bass it's here today gone tomorrow. If you have great unbelievable success on one day, chances are about 90% that the next day the same spot will be DEAD as hell. Have seen that more times than I can count over the years of fishing for them. That goes for both summer and winter. Sure I have some patterns, but it takes instinct to time it right. Went on exactly the right day luckily enough this year. Managed two days in a row of doing no more than lowering anything down the hole, I mean anything, there was no time for jigging, as soon as it got even sometimes 3 ft under the ice, it was clobbered. You could almost wiggle your finger in the hole while holding a hook LOL.

I'm also fairly certain that unless one specific weather pattern arises, this could be the end for this year for those kinda numbers. Here is a lousy cell phone pic for you to enjoy.[/quote]

I imagine it is because they eat the area out completely. That many white bass can put the hurting on just about everything there is to eat in an area in about a day. Or half day[]
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[Springbuck]

Now, that's a theory I might believe...... They might do that, indeed.
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[Fin-S-Fish]

Now that is one heck of a damn good theory. I can just picture that happening. It must have been pure death for anything small enough to jam down their throats down there that day. The sonars kept getting inhaled all the way down to the throat of them whities, I got sick of doing minor surgery. That is one big ass lure and trebles to eat that deeply. No scent ,just a stupid metal blade, no vibration because I never jigged it LOL. It just had to get down there and it was dead! A lot of them did have whole 3 -4 inch crappies and bluegills inside their gullets. I expected more baby young of the year class white bass in the gullets but obviously the crappies were what they found there. Poor crappies LOL.
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