Moon Phase:Fishing Time: All Day
Weather: mostly clear, sunny, 90's
Water Level: 3,605 ft amsl
Who Went: Phil Bringhurst, Mike Duncan, Mike Zenger, Dunc
It was time for another yearly trip to fish Lake Powell. None of my friends could go this year so I went with my cousins Phil, Mike and there friend Mike Zenger. Turns out that Zenger was a good one to invite considering he had a nice 17 foot Bass Boat, a nice truck to pull it and a Houseboat for us to stay on while we were there. We tried this trip two weeks ago only to make it to Lake Powell in the snow, stay in a hotel one night and go home the next morning due to more snow in the forecast. So now for round two. We got to Bullfrog on Friday night and finally found the houseboat in the dark. Saturday was an early wake up call at 5:30 a.m., and it was an absolutely gorgeous morning with a beautiful sunrise to start the day!
When we first started fishing it seemed as if it was going to be one of those normal days of fishing at Lake Powell. Fish were jumping everywhere and Zenger had a Smallmouth to the boat right off the rip. Soon after Phil was in the mix adding the trips first Striper. The two Duncans were still looking for their first fish while Phil and Zenger continued to catch a variety of different fish. I 
really got jealous when Zenger pulled in this nice Largemouth. Still the Duncan boys were fishless. We tried moving to different spots and trying different tactics but nothing seemed to work for us. Phil and Zenger had slowed down at this point but they were still catching an occasional fish. It was really starting to make me angry. I had a few hits and just couldn't bring them to the boat. We tried yet another location across from Bullfrog bay and the houseboat fields and I had 3 hits with nothing to show for it. Phil had on the nicest Largemouth I have ever seen in Powell and got it right to the boat before he decided to spit the jig out. Soon after Phil scored again with a Walleye caught on a chartreuse spar
kled curly tailed jig. Still no fish for me or Mike! Our next location deep in Halls Canyon we found a cozy little cove with many dead trees and reeds lining the shoreline. I finally hooked up with my first fish of the day with a nice little Black Crappie. The action was hot for me for about 10 minutes bringing in two more Crappie, and a small Largemouth Bass. In all the excitement of finally catching fish I forgot to take any pictures! Nice going Chris! My glory soon ended and I was back to catching nothing. Mike finally got off the snide by pulling in a dink Smallmouth. Once it hit mid-day the fishing died off dramatically so we decided to hit Moki Wall to see if we could find some Stripers. It didn't take long to find them right along the wall, and with a little chum we had them all around us. 
After catching as many Stripers as we wanted we got bored and decided to move on. We fished the evening looking for more varieties of fish and found very few of them. We caught a few of them here and there but the fishing just never reached the normal Lake Powell mode of RED HOT!!! It didn't impress my cousins much so we hit the sack woke up the next morning and went strait to Moki Wall where we knew we would at least catch fish. We caught Striper after Striper for a few hours and then called it a day and made it home in time to see the first game in the Western Conference finals between the Jazz and the Spurs. Jazz got blown out and the Spurs took a 1-0 lead in the series.
When we first started fishing it seemed as if it was going to be one of those normal days of fishing at Lake Powell. Fish were jumping everywhere and Zenger had a Smallmouth to the boat right off the rip. Soon after Phil was in the mix adding the trips first Striper. The two Duncans were still looking for their first fish while Phil and Zenger continued to catch a variety of different fish. I 
really got jealous when Zenger pulled in this nice Largemouth. Still the Duncan boys were fishless. We tried moving to different spots and trying different tactics but nothing seemed to work for us. Phil and Zenger had slowed down at this point but they were still catching an occasional fish. It was really starting to make me angry. I had a few hits and just couldn't bring them to the boat. We tried yet another location across from Bullfrog bay and the houseboat fields and I had 3 hits with nothing to show for it. Phil had on the nicest Largemouth I have ever seen in Powell and got it right to the boat before he decided to spit the jig out. Soon after Phil scored again with a Walleye caught on a chartreuse spar
kled curly tailed jig. Still no fish for me or Mike! Our next location deep in Halls Canyon we found a cozy little cove with many dead trees and reeds lining the shoreline. I finally hooked up with my first fish of the day with a nice little Black Crappie. The action was hot for me for about 10 minutes bringing in two more Crappie, and a small Largemouth Bass. In all the excitement of finally catching fish I forgot to take any pictures! Nice going Chris! My glory soon ended and I was back to catching nothing. Mike finally got off the snide by pulling in a dink Smallmouth. Once it hit mid-day the fishing died off dramatically so we decided to hit Moki Wall to see if we could find some Stripers. It didn't take long to find them right along the wall, and with a little chum we had them all around us. 
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