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Lake Powell Report
May 3, 2008
Al and his friend Tom from Sun City, AZ hired me for a full day. We striper fished the 3 mile area for several hours with good success. Many of the strikes were quite light and the fish were not as aggressive as 4/27 & 28. After getting rocked from boat wakes for a while, we tried inside of Antelope and nada, zippo. After lunch we ran up into Warm Creek looking for largemouth in the shallow water. After trying both jigs, crankbaits, swim baits and spinnerbaits, we left with only one striper on the swim bait. Back to three mile and more stripers to finish off the day. Fun guys to fish with, they'll be back this fall.
Tom lands the first fish of the day.
Lake Powell Report
May 13-14, 2008
May 13-14, 2008
Chris and his wife Tammy joined me for 2 afternoon half day trips on 5/13 & 14. The 13th was quite breezy, but manageable. The water temp has finally risen above 62 and has tripped the aggressive switch in the fish. Chris and Tammy caught many smallmouth and largemouth on jigs and dropshot. Breaks off of 5-10 foot deep slickrock shelves and narrow reef type structure jutting off points held many fish. The 14th was tougher despite even warmer water temps than the 13th. An approaching front might have something to do with the fish being finicky. The lake is rising about 4" per day now and will soon be at the base of the brush.
Chris takes a largemouth on a finesse worm and the ultralight rod.
Tammy lands a quality smallie on the dropshot rig.
Lake Powell Report
May 25, 2008
5 guys with a Japanese film production company fished a half-day from 11am to 3:30pm. We started in the rough channel at reliable #3. The stripers were in their usual mood and we had fast action for a couple hours. After constantly bobbing ibn the waves for 2 hours we made our way back into Wahweap Bay to fish for smallmouth. the guys caught several from a 4-12 foot drop-off across from Wahweap marina and a few near Castle Rock. All fish were relesed to fight another day.
This largemouth fell for dropshot 4" worm.
Typical striper from the channel.
Lake Powell Report
May 24, 2008
May 24, 2008
Ed and Brian fished a full day with me today for a mixed bag of species. The stripers are still going strong at buoy 3 in the main channel. The guys harvested 25 linesides here before we moved on to fish for smallmouth. Ed and Brian caught several on dropshot rigs with 4" worms across from Antelope Point and near Castle Rock.
Lake Powell Report
May 17, 2008
Clayton, Darrel and Arron fished a full day for largemouth, walleye and smallmouth as the targets. We started in Gunsight Canyon and found all 3 species on drop-offs in 10-15 feet. Hula grubs, dropshot worms and single tail grubs all took fish. Later, the mouth of Warm Creek also produced several fish.
Arron takes the first walleye of the day.
Darrel lands a scrappy smallie on a 6" plastic lizard.
Lake Powell Report
May 27, 2008
May 27, 2008
I spent a very productive with my friends from the Forgotten Canyon houseboat. They base camp about 50 miles uplake from Page in Oak Bay at the foot of Navajo Mountain. We spent the morning fishing stripers in a spot we killed 'em last year and the fish were there again. We kept a tally and the count was over 100 when we quit for lunch. After cleaning well over 40 stripers and eating brats, we went looking for smallmouth and perhaps a walleye or two. The smallies were very cooperative and they landed another 25 on grubs and dropshot rigs. The best spots were slickrock points, domes and saddles 10-20 feet deep.
Paula, with pencil at the ready to tally another fish, fights a striper.
Eric with a typical striper.
Lake Powell Report
June 1, 2008
2 Great folks from the fly fishing world fished with me on the 1st. Rick Ruhoff and his long time girlfriend Lori-Ann Murphy stopped by on their way to Montana for the summer. Rick as has been guiding saltwater fly anglers in Florida for 37 years and Lori Ann is the founder and owner of Reel Women Outfitters based in Willow Creek, Montana. I took them to Padre Bay so they could see some of the amazing rock formations Powell has to offer. We started our fishing day at the mouth of Kane Wash with hopes of finding the striper school that has put down roots there. We used the electronics to search the area with no luck. So we set up shop with some chum in hopes of bringing stripers in so we could fly fish to them. The stripers were off elsewhere but Rick did stick a nice smallie right off the bat on out first spot. Later, in a different spot in Padre Bay, both Lori-Ann and Rick caught more stripers on the same fly. We hope to have a fall trip as they leave Montana for Tucson and Florida again.
Rick lands the first smallie of the day.
Rick gets a yearling striper on a fly he uses in Florida.
Lake Powell Report
June/ July, 2008
June & July were hit and miss months. Stripers slurping larval and small shad were caught on top with small topwater lures. The small schools were only up for less than a minute and were catchable if the school surfaced near he boat. Anchovy fishing for stripers was fair early in July and got tougher as the fish broke off and started relating to the shad schools. Large and smallmouth fishing was spotty overall. The rapidly rising lake level caused the fish to scatter. As we enter August, the lake has been slowly declining for about 15 days and this will lead to better bass fishing. Topwaters and other reaction lures will work early and late in late in the day and the brush will be the place to find fish in ambush mode. In addition, midday fishing deep in the 25-35 foot range will produce some bass. Striper fishing will be spotty in the all but the inflow areas of the upper San Juan and Colorado river ends until the water starts to cool a bit.
