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Utah Lake Tube Cattin'
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[#0000ff][cool]Fellow tuber Waljustia wanted to score some kitties for the smoker. Severe withdrawal syptoms and wantin' some hand to fin combat with those toothsome morsels. I guaranteed some cats if we hit Lincoln Beach on Utah Lake this Friday. He took the guarantee and I brought the bait.

31 degree air temp with a light breeze at 6:30 am launch. Water temp 54 inside the launch area but down to 52 outside. Finally warmed up to over 55 by noon departure. Gonna get warmer...and better.

We started by slinging plastics in several spots. Got no love...except for a couple of carp scales. No good for smoking. Moved out to deeper water and put up the plastics. Rigged a minnow on one bait rod and a small white bass on the other. Game on. Within minutes I had a runner on the minnows. Set the hook and the other rod took off. Put the first rod in a holder with the drag dialed down a bit and fought in the second fish. Scooped it in the net and then brought in the first fish and added it to the same net. The first of several doubles.

Dave got into the act as I was finishing up with hook removal, spine removal and basketizing. He went bendo on his first kitty...a nice cookie cutter. Skunk be gone for both of us.

Then I did a repeat of my first double. Hooked one fish and had the second rod get busy. Set down the first rod, hooked the second fish and brought both in to scoop up in the same net. Four cats in my basket before 8 am. Not a bad start for cold water cattin'.

After that it was singles for a while. Okay with me. More fun one at a time. But I did get a double with one cat and one mudder. Then I caught a cat on a plastic and while trying to remove the jig I went bendo on the bait rod. Another double...kinda.

The most interesting "double" was something I have never done on cats before. I had a bite on one rod and was getting ready to pick it up and set the hook when it stopped. Then the second rod got busy so I picked it up, flipped the bail closed, waited for it to come tight and WHAM...crossed his eyes. Imagine my surprise when I brought in that cat and he had both of my lines protruding from his lips. Greedy little bugger.

I think my final count was about 13 channel cats, 2 bullheads (mudders), a couple of white bass and one aggressive carp that hammered a pink jig and put on a really good show for me. He was invited home for preparatory surgery...for future bait. Helping the Junies one carp at a time.

Dave also ended up with a limit of kitties. Plus he also dinged a mudder and a few whities. But he seemed to have a lot of fun just "feeding" the fish and playing conservationist. Sure did whiff a lot of hooksets.

Purty day on the water. Nothing worse than light breezes and lots of sunshine. Almost enough to get you hoping that spring might show up. Oh, and about that big ol' full moon in the sky. We were all prepared to make excuses for a bum trip but didn't even have to play the moon card. Probably couldn't have handled the excitement if it had been much better.
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Great day guys! Nice Job!
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#3
Fun stuff!!! Love the wing flapping...LOL Can you imagine two of those on one line!
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Looks like you guys were having a good time. I did pretty well my self this weekend. Ron
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Looks like it is warming up!
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[quote cpierce]Looks like it is warming up![/quote]

[#0000FF]At last. But we are supposed to have a cold front move through tomorrow.

Ahhhh. Sprinter in Utah.
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