Moon Phase:Fishing Time: 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Weather: clear, windy, 50's
Who Went: Me
Knowing that March is the toughest month of the year to find fish in any quantity (my opinion), I thought I would load up the float tube and head to Utah Lake in search of some quality fish, like an early Walleye or a big Kitty Cat. I got a late start and didn't get to the lake until 10:30 a.m. When I got there and looked out at the water, I could see white caps forming from the wind! This is not exactly tubing weather so I went for plan B. They have not let the gates go from Utah Lake into the Jordan River yet so i put on my waders (muddy), and walked the shoreline hoping to find something that would bite! I started catching Largemouth right off the rip, but they were all small.
I also caught a decent sized Green Sunfish that slammed my black with blue sparkled, Gary Yammamoto, curly tailed jig.
I tried switching colors and sizes trying to entice a possible walleye or bigger bass but it didn't happen! I did catch this small mud cat on a jig which was kind of different, but it happens once in a while! Come on warm weather!
The action didn't stop either, I caught five pike with the biggest at 27 inches! John didn't have as much luck today but a lot of it was him helping to land mine and missing hits.
I caught them both under the bobber as well as on the bottom, and I never thought that pike fishing could be as fast as this was. We only fished for 3 hours and between the two of us we had at least 12 hits. This is definitely a lake I will be returning to. It was a lot of fun!
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It's a little early to catch warm water species, but I was lucky enough to catch a Largemouth there last year about this time. Needless to say I did not even get a bite! I threw gulp minnows, Senkos, and an earth worm, but to no avail! I headed on up the freeway and thought of a place that I could maybe score a Largemouth. There is a spot on the Jordan River by the pump house where a warm spring runs in. Its not hard to tell its a warm spring as you can see the steam rising off the water. The flow to the Jordan River is almost completely shut off this time of year so its more of a shallow pond than a river, and believe it or not you can see right through the water (Usually the Jordan River is very muddy). When I got there I instantly saw a bass swimming along the shoreline that probably went 4 pounds. I had no idea this little hole held such large bass! I tried to hurry so I could get a picture of him but of course I just missed him. I did get a picture of a few smaller bass also hanging out along the shoreline.
find open water to fish today. I didn't have much in mind so I figured I would sleep on it, then jump in the truck this morning and start driving til something stood out. Well, March decided to tease me cause it has been sunny and nice all week and when I woke up at 6:00 a.m. the wind was howling and a storm was brewing! I went back to bed and woke up around 8:30. The wind was still howling and I knew if I was going to fish today I had to find somewhere that the wind wouldn't effect me. The best place I could think of was Hobble Creek. Stuck between two steep mountains and many trees to block wind, it was the best option. I was right on! The wind died as soon as I started heading up the canyon. It was absolutely gorgeous up there! I threw on my waders, rigged my new pole with only a hook and a worm and began walking up stream. I soon found out that while my new bass pole had great sensitivity and was light weight and easy to handle, it is also a bass pole and is stiffer than most trout poles. It made flipping and casting a little tough for stream fishing! Many people ask me, "why do you have to have more than one pole to fish? there all the same right?" The best answer I can give them is, do you use your putter on the driving range? Each pole is designed for specific things. Bass fishing poles are not designed for stream use. I just really wanted to try my new pole out so I was willing to deal with the mis-application, and fished with it any way. I
caught 15 Brown Trout and it was a blast! It was beautiful up there and I had 
the whole stream all to myself! When I left and drove back into the valley the wind was crazy! It pushed me all over the road on my way home. Hobble Creek was a great choice for today's conditions!
when I looked over at Ed's pole and it was doubled over and about to go into the water! I ran as fast as I could and grabbed the pole just before it went down. When I pulled it up the fish started taking drag and I knew this was not a small fish! I fought and reeled in the fish until Ed finally made it over. He took over from there and that's where it went down hill! As he was trying to reel it in using baby steps, it came unbuttoned! Those are the ones that haunt you! We will never know what was on the other end! Oh well, that's what makes fishing exciting! We fished for about another hour and JJ made fun of me for bringing my famous ice fishing meal including, Ding Dongs and a Mountain Dew.
After awhile we got an itchin to just catch some fish! We decided to head to the old reliable hump off Buckboard Marina! The way there was another adventure in the making! As we were driving we saw a guy off the road with no help having arrived yet. He was a little shaken up, but okay. The roads were snow packed and very icy, so when the guy told me he was going 55 mph I was not surprised to see him off the side of the road! After some pushing and hard work we had him back on the road again, and we continued on our way to Buckboard! Then as we were trying to make it down the dirt road to Buckboard Point, the motor home got stuck on a snow drift! It had me a little nervous but with some digging and more pushing we made it out in less than a half hour! Finally we were there! I even got the GPS to work so we walked straight out, and right on top of the hump we like to fish! GPS is amazing! It didn't take long to find fish and I was on the board within minutes.
Then the tides changed and I soon found out that the Kinders were in the money hole! They caught about 9 to my 3 before I decided to hole pirate them and get into the action!
We stayed til dark and had a blast catching Lake Trout! No big ones though, and the curse still lurks with me! Some day it will happen! The sunset was gorgeous as usual! The trip home was a little scary! The wind picked up bad and the roads were completely iced over! JJ was not liking it one bit! It made a 3 hour ride home into about a 4 and a half hour ride. Scary, but we made it home safe. can't wait to go back! Flaming Gorge is by far my favorite place to ice fish!
I tried to stay away from the Perch as much as possible to find the trout! I found a five, but they were all Rainbows around 12 inches long.
It was a beautiful day and we both got sunburns. The future looks grim for this years tail end of the ice fishing season. Im not sure if its even worth going out in this winter wonderland! But you know I still will!
It was time for a little perch bustin and Yuba was the place to be! On the way down it was a total blizzard and we were all packed in the Kinder motor home! We saw these elk just off the road on highway 89. When we got to Yuba and it was already packed!
We set up shop right in the middle of the pack and started throwin the perch on the ice! JJ started it off with a nice perchzilla! Soon after we all started landing fish, except Ed!
We all laughed at him but it didn't stop him from slaying the perch with the rest of us, oh except Ed! We were all using various perch busting small lures and jigs tipped with minnow or meal worm and then we each put out a pike pole with an anchovy, but none of us had any takers. We were trying hard to get Ed on the board. We were all just knockin em dead and Ed could not even manage a bite! I finally gave him my pole and put him in my hole with my jig and the fish finder to see if we could land him a perch!
After a few misses and us pokin fun at him, he finally got on the board with a nice perchzilla!
I left my camera in the motor home when we got to Utah Lake, but it wasn't that exciting anyway. JJ landed 1 perch and we stayed for an hour or less and then headed for home! We definitely got our perch fix in for the year and thats enough for me. Now I wanna find the big fish! It was a really fun trip for a change though!