Eagle Valley and Lake mead...long weekend

[BillyH]

Whats up guys, been a little quite around the boards lately so here are my reports from this last weekend. It was a long tiring weekend of fishing. Hit the road at 3 am on Sat heading to Eagle Valley. Got on the water right a daybreak. Fishing was steady all day, ended with over 35 fish most of which were hold overs and over 1.5 lbs. The key was staying on the bottom up near the north end of the reservoir using power bait and water bobbers for weight. We still managed quite a few tolling but that bite was hit or miss. Dont think i had a line in the water for more then 5 minutes without a fish on it. Only fished about 6 hrs, but it was a great day for some trout fishing. You can see from the pics from of our keepers had some nice color and length.

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Made it home around 8 pm, after a stop at a few of the dive bars along the way back from the Pioche area. Quick shower and off to bed, just to wake back up at 3 am and head out to Lake Mead with another one of my fishing buds.We got on the water right at daybreak, calm winds and a little chilly. Morning actually started off slow, hit the occasional LMB but nothing special. Went from reaction baits to drop shots and thats all she wrote. From about 9:30 am to 3 pm we put over 35 fish in the boat (catch and release) and lost about 15 at the boat due to gear malfunction and some CRAPPY line i had to switch it up to after a nasty birds nests. One of the most productive days on the water in quite a while. Most of the fish we pulled in were sitting in submerged brush in 15 - 25 ft of water in the middle of coves. Nailed a couple fatties in the shallows also. Big fish of the day came in at 3.75 and the average was size LMB was 1.8 lbs. No strippers and only a couple of smallies.

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As you can see by the below pic...we were in the fish lol. Wasnt uncommon to find areas hold 100+ LMB but once you pulled 3 or 4 out the the bite would stop, that and its hard to be stealth in a big ass pontoon boat. Spotted a couple of LMB that would have easily topped 8 lbs.
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[wolfs4evr]

Nice catches!

I wanted to make one more trout fishing trip this year (Kolob) before the ice and just not seeing that happen right now.

We must of been on two different ends of the lake. lol I couldn't get one on a drop shot/plastics Saturday to save my life. Reaction baits were off the hook for us.

Those back to back fishing trips always sound great when thinking ahead about it then when it happens the pain. My body isn't all that impressed post fishing two days in a row. lol
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[BillyH]

Oh yeah, my body is sore today and im exhausted from the sun. I cant count how many times i casted over the weekend. Mix in standing all day and some beer....makes for a blah monday. You gotta try to get some fall trout fishing in soon though, this is prime time. Nothing like a feisty trout and an ultra light rod. Eagle is prime right now and Sunnyside is pretty good also, just a long ass drive.

At mead we were fishing in some of the same areas you have hit, it was a little odd on the amount of fish we were pulling out of the deepest parts of the coves. I normally have most luck near the waters edge working my bait into deeper water and off points but they were holding just about everywhere but there opposite of where i normally cast. Also, dark colors like blue out performed all others 5 to 1 with the murky water.
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[Erawk]

Nice report and pics. That's a great pic of all those bass kicking it, haha. You almost never see that.
I wish I had gotten out once this weekend, let alone twice. Thank you for letting me live vicariously. Nice work!
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