Ninja Attack on Lake X PWC 10-15-09

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[cool][#0000ff]This is a tough time of year. Pacific weather fronts keep the barometer bouncing and the wind huffing...and fishermen frustrated. Sometimes if ya wanna go fishing ya gotta just go. If ya plan something Mama Nature is gonna mess you up fer sure.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I had no fishing plans for today. Last night the weather forecast for Jordanelle looked promising. When I woke up early this morning it still looked good. TubeBabe was out of town and all my regular fishing buddies were quiet and had not been trying to plan a trip. Sooooo...I jammed my gear in the Jimmy and headed for Jordanelle, hoping I hadn't forgotten something. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I figured I might just sneak in a bit of fishing before Mama Nature figured out that I had tricked her. I put on my black fleece tubing pants and hoodie, slipped into my neoprenes and launched my ninja tube. Stealth mode.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water calm and 53 degrees. Good clarity. No fish hitting the top and NOTHING on sonar. I guessed that most of them must be up in the Rock Cliff arm. Figured I could go up there later if I didn' find something at the PWC ramp area.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]But, I did find "something". First fish was a nasty old chub on one of my "fligs"...floating jigs. I was dragging it around for trout or perch, while bouncing another jig off the bottom. The chub hit hard and fought hard...but it was still a %&^$ chub.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also found a grundle of dinkster perch. Lots of them in fairly shallow water...13 to 16 feet. Instant debaiting as soon as I lowered a worm sweetened jig to the bottom. Some were barely 4 inches. Quite a few were bait sized 6 - 7 inchers. Only a very few for the day were larger than 8. The only "toad" I got out in 35 feet. It was a footlong. Saw other promising blips on the sonar out there but couldn't find any more big dumb ones.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No trout today. I dragged flies around several times in several places...from shallow to as deep as 70 feet. Nary a bump. Again, maybe most of the slimers are up in the RC arm.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No smallies either. I suspect they have moved deeper and have their little winter coats on. Don't like to fish for them in deep water. Air bladder problems. The one larger perch from today had a protruding air bladder coming up from the mid 30 foot range.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Saw perch and caught perch all the way from 12 feet to as deep as 40 feet. Most were not worth the trouble but I kept hoping to find some bigger ones. Kept delaying my departure to Rock Cliff in hopes of finding perch. Then the wind came up and I decided that I had all the fun I could stand. Not terrible wind and not unfishable cold wind. Just enough that it ruined my touch fishing and I was done.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Saw one boat on the water today. Nobody else fishing around the PWC ramp...not even bank tanglers. Wimps. Us ninjas can take it.[/#0000ff]
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[lavaman]

Thanks for the pics, Pat...

Keep those chubs off yer line would ya?

Where were all the troutski's hiding?
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[pkred]

Your a die hard Pat. The floatilla still on for monday?
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[TubeDude]

[quote lavaman]Thanks for the pics, Pat...

Keep those chubs off yer line would ya?

Where were all the troutski's hiding?[/quote]

[cool][#0000ff]Everybody has been doing pretty good on rainbows up in the Rock Cliff arm...at the Provo River inlet. Browns are getting ready to spawn, but haven't heard of any being taken recently.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I usually do pretty well around the PWC area this time of year. Maybe the storms moved them around a bit. Always next time.[/#0000ff]
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[bassrods]

Nice pictures, I have got bass in water over 80' up there and the air bladder did not enlarge....

I can't remember any time that on smallies that it has, but LM and spots do from deep water...
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[TubeDude]

[quote pkred]Your a die hard Pat. The floatilla still on for monday?[/quote]

[cool][#0000ff]Current weather forecast is for a sloppy storm to move through then. If that is the case color me out. We will probably have a final announcement late Saturday or on Sunday...on the tubing board.[/#0000ff]
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]I think you are right. I too have caught smallies from deep water in both Jordanelle and Pineview and there has been no air bladder problem. But, when I used to fish the deep reservoirs in California the largies usually had a problem...like they used to in Deer Creek in the olden days. Rick Johnson and I used to spoon them from deep water in the late fall and quite a few of them had protruding air bladders. That was when I quit fishing bass on purpose in the cold months.[/#0000ff]
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[bassrods]

I like to try for the bass at the Nell this time of year, one day they can be in water one foot deep and the next in sixty....
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